When you fall off the wagon, somebody else gets run over.
P. J. O’Rourke has quipped that “Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.” He failed to add that only a short time later they couldn’t remember it.
Most addicts have to get very low to ever again get very high.
“He can hold his liquor,” is an leaky proposition. Every liquor holder eventually leaks.
A glass sharpens what the whole bottle dulls.
Bottoms up too much is bottoms down and out eventually.
All addicts are liars; recovery begins when we all start telling the truth.
Addiction — the bottom is the beginning of the top.
We know we are addicted when we start and can’t stop.
We know we are recovering when we help someone else stop using.
Love is essential to overcoming addiction, for yourself, God and others.
What is the difference between a medicine and an illegal drug? One builds up what the other demolishes.
One person can savor one beer with a meal and be satisfied, another down one glass of wine and be drunk for 35 years. Know yourself.
The wise get high on wives, children and grandchildren, but fools get high on wine and lose them.
A drunk teen and a drunk fifty year old have something in common – pathetic.
Getting high alone is a euphoric low.
Sobriety for the addict is a non-stop brawl with the devil.
Friends — the best way to self-medicate with no later regrets or hangovers.
Drugs and alcohol — a false fix for the socially impaired.
We drink in excess because we are suffering a regress. We have lost our childhood passion for a pure, unmixed, straight shot of life.
What might make you the life of the party may in due time make you a dead-end street.
Drinking is a freedom that might be best locked up when we host those who are not free to drink.
