Dean was not an alcoholic, anyone with a brain can see that. He would never, ever have been as successful as he was if he'd been an alcoholic. Jerry Lewis had drinking and substance abuse problems, especially later in life, but not Dean. NBC wouldn't have paid him the astronomical sums they paid him if he'd been a drunk. He would not have been a successful high-end golfer, he wouldn't have had a successful movie career, a recording career, nor would he have been raising Andalusian horses, and training them. Dean did not have the body or the skin of an alcoholic, had beautiful skin, healthy body, the only thing he did that was addictive and bad for his health was smoking - and even so, he lived to be 78 with lung cancer, untreated.
