‘Because she called and then she couldn’t talk any more and she’s got five kids in the car.’ There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane, 911 call, 2011
On Sunday July 26th 2009 Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway for almost two miles, crashing and killing eight people – herself, her daughter, three nieces, and all three people in the oncoming vehicle. ibid. caption
‘The toxicology from that autopsy shows that Diane Schular had a blood alcohol content 0.19% … a high level of THC’ … ‘approximately ten drinks are in her at this time.’ ibid. rozzers’ press conference
‘Through this [McDonald’s] video we saw no obvious sign of intoxication.’ ibid. rozzer
‘I hate when I’m like this. Can’t stay still.’ Drugs Map of Britain: Alcohol: Britain’s Most Harmful Drug, BBC 2017
78% of deaths in Thames Reach Hostels are directly attributed to super-strength alcohol. ibid.
Victims believe the offender(s) to be under the influence of alcohol in 53% of all violent incidents. ibid. Public Health England
Alcohol abuse in Russia is a national emergency. (Russia & Alcohol) Russia with Simon Reeve II, BBC 2017
My name is Adrian Chiles and I am not an alcoholic. At least I don’t think I am. I do drink most days … This is about nice, regular drinkers and the damage quietly being done to ourselves and society by drinkers like me. Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles, BBC 2018
My weekly intake is something like 75 units. ibid.
It filled my veins with liquid sunshine. Alcohol & Me aka My Alcohol Addition, Ed, Channel 5 2018
My capacity for alcohol was shocking. ibid. Ali
That kind of drive to just go out and get wasted was there. ibid. drinker
The alcoholism capital of Africa. One favourite type of booze the locals make is called Waragi … War Gin aka The Drunkest Place on Earth aka Uganda’s Moonshine Epidemic, Vice 2012
Basically, making Uganda the drunkest place on Earth. ibid.
People were going blind and dying from drinking Waragi cut with industrial chemicals. ibid.
Running up to Uganda’s 2006 election, Museveni and the now political National Resistance Movement abolished presidential term limits. ibid.
It’s fine. Let’s just go to the liquor store. Trailer Park Boys s3e7: The Delusions of Officer Jim Lahey, Randy
You might be sexy, Julian, but you can’t teach me anything about liquor. Trailer Park Boys s7e9: Going Off the Rails and On the Swayzie Train, Mr Lehey
Randy, you’ve got an opportunity to talk to the liquor. Take the fucking bottle. We’ve been given a wonderful gift, Randy. A wonderful gift. ’Cause the liquor has chosen us, Randy. Me and you, bud. Trailer Park Boys s11e8: A Liquor Captain Never Abandons a Sinking Shit Ship, Mr Lahey
The liquor is supervising the park, Barb. Trailer Park Boys s11e10: The All You Can Eat Shit Buffet, Mr Lahey
Talking to the liquor is like talking to God. ibid.
Liquor and whores
Liquor and whores
Cigarettes and dope and mustard and baloney
Liquor and whores. Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park Europe VIII: Amsterdam II, Bubbles & the Shit Rockers
As for many people social drinking has always been a big part of my life. Then last year I took a hard look at just how much I was putting away. I realised I had gone and damaged my health. Why is it we understand public health messages like eating five a day and stopping smoking but never quite get our heads round what doctors say is a safe level of drinking. Why don’t alcohol producers spell out what the guidelines are? Panorama: Britain’s Drink Problem, BBC 2019
He refuses to join the rat race – he drinks and he wakes. Barfly 1987 starring Mickey Rourke & Faye Dunaway & Alice Krige & J C Quinn & Frank Stallone & Jack Nance & Sandy Martin et al, director Barbet Schroeder, barman
No-one in this neighbourhood can swallow paste like I can. ibid. old bird in bar
Bloke in bar: What do you drink?
Henry: Almost everything. ibid.
Some people never go crazy; what truly horrible lives they must live. ibid. Henry
Your mother’s cunt stinks like carpet cleaner. ibid. Henry to Eddie
What do you think I am? A bum? ibid. Henry
I can’t stand people. I hate them. ibid. Wanda
Henry: What do you do?
Wanda: I drink. ibid.
Don’t worry, nobody’s ever loved me yet. ibid. Henry
Nothing ever works right in this life. ibid. Wanda
We’re all in some kind of hell. ibid.
To the working class. To us. ibid. Henry’s toast
This is a world where everybody’s got to do something. ibid. Henry
Hatred – the only thing that lasts. ibid.
Anybody can be a non-drunk, but it takes a special talent to be a drunk. ibid.
Nobody suffers like the poor. ibid.
You hired a Dick to find an asshole. ibid.
To all my friends. ibid. Rourke’s toast
Growing up with a dad that is an alcoholic has shaped so much of who I am and affected me probably more than I was ever aware of. I don’t think I’m an alcoholic, but I have got a problem with alcohol. Vicky Pattison: Alcohol, Dad and Me, Channel 4 2022
Since the founding of the United States of America there has been a battle for its soul between giving people the freedom to indulge and protecting them from the chaos of debauchery. The Booze, Bets & Sex that Built the World I, History 2022
It gave rise to some of the most iconic products in history. ibid.
In rural Alabama one bootlegger would fashion himself into an American legend: Jack Daniel. ibid.
Hedonism was in the grasp of every American. Now, the temperance movement was battling back. The Booze, Bets & Sex that Made the World II
Beer as a beverage of moderation, focussing on its lower alcohol content and nutritional benefits. ibid.
I wanted to make a documentary about alcoholism … Months of research produced four patients, simply the only four patients to agree my intrusions, to my filming their hell, and I was grateful. Rain in My Heart, Paul Watson reporting, BBC 2006
Toni binge-drinks, mindless orgies of booze, pernicious parties she must quit or die; Mark – his poison is vodka, two bottles a day; Nigel has been dry for four years but alcohol has left him damaged; Vanda drinks to wash out the monsters that mess her mind. ibid.
‘Everything we do here is too late; we’ve missed the boat by miles.’ ibid. doctor
‘I drink because there’s nothing else to do. Boredom’ … Two days later Toni was dead. Toni Bailey was 26 year old. ibid. Toni
I woke up this morning and got myself a beer. First Call, 2000, Jim Morrison
From 7.30 a.m. Say 15 people. We call it the Breakfast Club. ibid. regular in New York bar
This is where you can wake up in the morning and be home. ibid.
In this country many people get lonely. ibid. barman
A fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. Play for Today: One Day at a Time, preamble read at AA meeting, BBC 1977
We suffer from a disease; it’s progressive and there is no cure. ibid. alcoholic
You don’t have a monopoly of suffering, you alcoholics. ibid. wife of alcoholic
Perhaps I drink because I am nothing. ibid.
He can’t hold a jug because of the shakes. Play for Today: C2H5OH, son, BBC 1980
I’ll kiss your forehead because your mouth’s so smelly, dad. ibid.
I haven’t got the control I once had. ibid. dad
He actually hates drink, you know. ibid. wife
Don’t you have clients who can’t stand the life of today? ibid. dad to doctor
The spoken word will become technological next. ibid.