Quit Lit
That’s why I’m always curious when someone in treatment claims to be a ‘moderate’ drinker. I can’t help wondering if they’re not just addicted in a different way than someone with obvious physical dependence
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Legal Drug Blues
More impressive results have come from simply increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages. States that have done so have been rewarded, mostly through reductions in the consequences of excessive drinking.
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The Old Normal
It’s still what we tend to think of as ‘normal’. Held up as what we hope to return to, someday when the pandemic is over and sanity has returned.
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It Sure Sounds Like Hazing
“It helps recruit students if the college has a reputation as someplace you can party,” he said. “But nobody wants to be known as the place where kids are likely to get in trouble. That scares away the parents.”
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Not Much Drinking Required
“These findings contrast with scientific and governmental guidelines on safe drinking limits.”
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Curious about Sobriety
Yes, to an addiction counselor it will seem reminiscent of the control strategies employed by many folks who eventually wind up in treatment.
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Australians Get Drunk A Lot
From the alcoholic beverage industry’s viewpoint, the pandemic has a pronounced silver lining. Sales are up and allegedly likely to continue at higher levels even as the pandemic finally fades.
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You mean Prohibition wasn’t all bad?
…it’s foolish to expect an industry built around making, distributing, and selling (for immense profit) abusable substances to regulate themselves.
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Competition for the Booze Dollar
…we represent that large segment of drinkers for whom the alcohol industry’s American “success story” turned out to be more like a bad dream.
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Alcohol and Cancer: Who Knew?
Americans have spent the last year indulging in more drinking than before, blaming it on the pandemic, lockdowns, etc. Are we really ready to give that up?
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First Person – Mystery Solved
I suppose he was happy for people to see him as pigheaded, since it covered up the real problem: His rapidly deteriorating cognitive function.
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DUI During a Pandemic
Considering the number of cognitive errors involved, it shouldn’t be difficult to understand why so many first offenders are eventually arrested for a second offense.
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An Unwelcome Consequence
Every so often I’d run into family members who’d let the situation go in the belief that treatment was futile until the drinker themselves decided they ‘wanted’ to quit.
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