It's not worth killing someone but that's really, really unlikely.
You take that chance every time you get in any car, regardless of sobriety.
Is it worth killing someone to get to work every day?
Looking at your phone while driving is much more dangerous than drinking and driving.
Call bs wrote:
And he claims that was 3 hours or so after he stopped drinking...
What would he have blown at his peak? (Wait, don’t answer that).
.35 - .4 ? It's hard to say, I'm fairly big for a runner so the metabolism's different
Fart Garfunkel wrote:
Even if the withdrawal is terrible, you will still be tempted to drink again later (probably for the rest of your life), but hopefully you are strong enough to resist and find something meaningful in your life to help you stay strong. At your age, your body can still recover a lot from the damage that has been done physically.
Thanks man, I'm trying to wean off steadily. Kinda like tapering before a big race, right? ha
figured I'd give an update.
Court date comin up
lookin at a little jailtime, but got myself a good lawyer, doin AA and rehab stuff like that
gonna try to wean off the hard stuff and just stick to beer
cheers
what's next? wrote:
figured I'd give an update.
Court date comin up
lookin at a little jailtime, but got myself a good lawyer, doin AA and rehab stuff like that
gonna try to wean off the hard stuff and just stick to beer
cheers
You've proven you can't handle alcohol, so should not drink it at all, not even beer. Isn't one of the pillars of aa total abstinence anyways. You do what you want with your life, just give someone else the keys first.
Kvothe wrote:
what's next? wrote:
figured I'd give an update.
Court date comin up
lookin at a little jailtime, but got myself a good lawyer, doin AA and rehab stuff like that
gonna try to wean off the hard stuff and just stick to beer
cheers
You've proven you can't handle alcohol, so should not drink it at all, not even beer. Isn't one of the pillars of aa total abstinence anyways. You do what you want with your life, just give someone else the keys first.
+1
Been an alcoholic for 16 years. I rarely drink anything other than beer.
Think about what you want from life.
I know I need to stop. Completely.
AA provides very little in the way of data driven remedies for alcoholism. For some, moderation is far more helpful and successful long term than abstinence.
Shamed wrote:
Tell the cops to quit booze shaming you.
Ha!
PIK wrote:
AA provides very little in the way of data driven remedies for alcoholism. For some, moderation is far more helpful and successful long term than abstinence.
I don’t know about data, but I’ve always been confused about this extreme binary mentality. Either 100 beers or zero beers.
Tracking days with zero alcohol. So if I had a couple of beers one night then I have somehow “failed” in a horrible way? You went six months without a drink and then had a few one night. So what? That’s what alcohol is for.
I don’t believe in this whole “disease” mentality. That’s a complete abandonment of individual responsibility and accountability. Just control yourself. Self control is required in all aspects of life.
I am one of those binary people. It is a mental illness. Once I have one drink I cannot stop. I have not drank in years, but drinking completly ruin my life and killed my mother and her brother. It is hard to explain to non-alcoholics who think you can just stop, which is why aa is popular with some people. It gives alcoholics people to talk to who understand each other. Believe me, alcohol is a dangerous drug. Do not think over drinking is a joke
lmb wrote:
I am one of those binary people. It is a mental illness. Once I have one drink I cannot stop. I have not drank in years, but drinking completly ruin my life and killed my mother and her brother. It is hard to explain to non-alcoholics who think you can just stop, which is why aa is popular with some people. It gives alcoholics people to talk to who understand each other. Believe me, alcohol is a dangerous drug. Do not think over drinking is a joke
Sorry to hear that. I don’t think for one second think it’s not a dangerous drug. It ruins more lives than anything I can think of, which is why moderation and self control are so important.
I personally don’t believe the mental illness thing and that one “cannot stop”, but it doesn’t matter what I believe. Doing what works is the bottom line. Results are all that matter. Doesn’t matter how you get there. That’s my opinion.
you don't really know a thing about addiction. Your opinion on it is about like a fan in the stands at Yankee stadium having an opinion on how to hit a 95 mph cutter, essentially worthless.
if you don't know, you don't know wrote:
you don't really know a thing about addiction. Your opinion on it is about like a fan in the stands at Yankee stadium having an opinion on how to hit a 95 mph cutter, essentially worthless.
You have your opinion. I have mine.