Alcohol continues to kill in other ways. ibid.
Twelve-step programs: that’s bullshit. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s2e10: 12 Stepping Inc, Showtime 2004
It’s estimated that fourteen million Americans - one in thirteen adults – abuses alcohol or are alcoholics. ibid.
Twelve-step programs are booming ... Twelve steps isn’t technology; it’s religion. ibid.
If you’re in the cult [Alcoholics Anonymous], the big book is revered almost as much as the Bible. ibid.
We’ve all heard this claim: it’s a disease. ibid.
For a lot of people AA is compulsory religion. ibid.
About half those coming to the AA for the first time remain less than three months ... After twelve months AA’s success rate is averaged at 5%. With AA 5%; without AA 5%. ibid.
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may fall, and wind may blow
And many miles be still to go
But under a tall tree will I lie
And let the clouds go sailing by. J R R Tolkien
I like to have a Martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the table,
after four I’m under my host. Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker
Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. Steve Martin
For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I’m now told that this is not called ‘going to sleep’ but rather ‘passing out’, a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment. David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
I’ll have seven Margaritas. American: The Bill Hicks Story ***** Bill tries alcohol
How much can we get Bill to take on stage? ibid.
Bill quit drinking in February of ’88. ibid.
Now he’d gone sober we were just proud of him. ibid.
I’ll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody. Mash: Ceasefire, Hawkeye, BBC 1973
Alcohol is ripping native Alaska apart. Drugs Inc s3e2: Alaska Heroin Rush, National Geographic 2012
85% of Domestic Violence in Alaska is alcohol related. ibid.
Crystal Meth and alcohol: the old face of addiction and the new. Over twenty million Americans are hooked. Drugged s2e3: High on Meth, National Geographic 2013
45,000 alcoholics die from withdrawal each year. ibid.
In the US 5 million women are alcoholics. ibid.
Alcohol is the most common drug a person turns to when experiencing trauma. ibid.
18 million Americans are alcoholics … The most abused drug in the United States. Drugged s2e4: High on Alcohol
The first impact of alcohol is rapid. ibid.
The children of alcoholics are four times as likely to become alcoholics themselves. ibid.
The threat of death hangs over every alcoholic … The lack of alcohol has its own hazardous effect. ibid.
Chronic alcohol abuse damages the digestive system making it extremely painful to eat. ibid.
Things like heroin and alcohol can and should be used for the purpose of worshiping, that is entering into communion with the Snake that giveth knowledge and delight and bright glory. Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend @364
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. Bob Marley
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. F Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, The Great Gatsby, 1925
First you take drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F Scott Fitzgerald
Here’s to alcohol, the rose-coloured glasses of life. F Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Back then, all of us drank too much. The more in tune with the times we were the more we drank. The Great Gatsby 2013 starring Leonardo di Caprio & Tobey McGuire & Carey Mulligan & Joel Edgerton & Isla Fisher & Jason Clarke & Elizabeth Debicki & Jack Thompson & Amitabh Bachchan et al, director Baz Luhrmann, opening scene, bloke to Shrink
Stocks reached record peaks. And Wall Street boomed in a steady golden roar. The parties were bigger. The shows were broader. The buildings were higher. The moral were looser, and the ban on alcohol had backfired, making the liquor cheaper. ibid.
And now I’m right back where I started. Sober and miserable. Alyson Noel, Evermore
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Genesis 9:20&21
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. Leviticus 10:9
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, Deuteronomy 14:26
And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Judges 9:13
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. I Corinthians 15:32
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 20:1
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Proverbs 23:20&21
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. Proverbs 31:4-7
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Ecclesiastes 9:7
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! Isaiah 5:11
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink. Isaiah 5:22
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. Isaiah 22:13
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. Isaiah 24:11
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. Isaiah 28:7
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. Isaiah 56:12
Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. Jeremiah 48:26
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. Lamentations 4:21
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Hosea 4:11
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. Joel 1:5
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! Habakkuk 2:15
Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey. Tobias 4:15
But let us, who are of the day, be sober. I Thessalonians 5:8