Comment preview: Happens a surprisingly large amount of the time in Australia. I've been kicked out numerous times for being too drunk when I've been the sober driver... One time I was out with friends and I didn't much feel like drinking that night (was still somewhat pre ....

Comment preview: I'm on the spectrum. Daily smoker for several years now. Its kind of inappropriate to compare being high and having autism, being high is a choice and is pretty awesome while autism is neither a choice nor awesome. But I get what you're saying in that they ....

Comment preview: I think my LIFE would be better.....I'd have gone to college right away, gotten my degree, pretty good job and be well on my way to a career right now instead of starting over in my late twenties. but I'M much better having done drugs. I'm a better person ....

Comment preview: Fuck, I was exactly where you were at about 19 months ago. I was homeless, staying in a hotel and had vodka being delivered. I wouldn't tell anyone where I was at. When the money ran out, I was too drunk to leave. The police came and when they saw what was ....

Comment preview: Recovering addict here! Exercise is a *fantastic* way to help deal with your depression and recovery. I've been sober for 100 days right now and have been getting more and more in to my fitness for the past two-thirds of that because its been helping me so ....

Comment preview: I'll share this even thought the possibility of someone reading it is slim. I'm an alcoholic, I've been sober for almost 3 years now. About six months into sobriety I took the coffee making job at my AA homegroup. I get there like 2 hours before the meetin ....

Comment preview: My great-grandfather was a raging alcoholic. My grandfather can barely finish a beer. My mother is currently in jail for DUI and I guarantee you the moment she gets out, she'll drink herself shitty. Me? I've tried damn near everything there is to try an ....

Comment preview: When my parents busted me they made me kick the old fashioned way- by taking my car keys and keeping me locked up in the house. 4 weeks later when I had finished withdrawals and appeared sober, I went out and scored heroin the first time they let me out of ....

Comment preview: I am an alcoholic and I remember being just like this guy. There was a stage, right before I really got help where I would admit my problems openly and talk about them. I was "working" on them, but my life was absolute hell. I was placating people and acti ....

Comment preview: I've had people walk away saying they couldn't watch me die. I had been hospitalized with liver failure and had turned yellow. I still drank after that. And when people started leaving me I was upset and angry but I eventually understood. As far as your mo ....

Comment preview: Dressing like a slut doesn't get you raped. The girl who's dressed like a slut is most likely to have a lot of male attention on her. Thats a hard victim to rape. The silent, drunk, passed out girl in the corner is a great rape victim because no one will n ....

Comment preview: I am not a cop. About 12 years ago I was driving home from a friends house and I saw an injured racoon in the middle of the road. It had likely been hit by a car and was unable to move but it was intact and stood a chance of survival if cared for properly ....

Comment preview: I have first hand experience with this. I am a recovering alcoholic. I sought treatment right when I graduated because I realized I could not risk anybody by working in my condition. I entered an outpatient rehab program and took my time with it. It lasted ....

Comment preview: Am I the only one who think this is a completely immoral idea ? I mean I see the point. But you also give a ridiculously small amount of money to people who just want a quick drug fix, wich is in my opinion a undisguised form of exploitation. But the bigge ....

Comment preview: It appears you've picked up an AA chip. There's a fair assumption then that you got it from a group. I strongly encourage you to get the names and numbers of people there, and look to them for some guidance. Rally cries from the internet is one thing, b ....

Comment preview: I liked to get drunk after work before I went home and it was usually pretty okay, until the night I found out it wasn't. I didn't realize I had been going home and acting like an asshole to my ex-fiance. One night she understandably got sick of my shit an ....

Comment preview: Man, it's funny that you ask that. I functioned really well. I got everything done that I needed to; I excelled in engineering classes; I have a happy relationship and i'm attending to a great uni on scholarship. However, since I started smoking 3 years ag ....

Comment preview: <- Ex homeless man here. If you've got ten bucks and you're living on the street, you're more likely to spend it on food and drink. I don't drink, and I've never been a fan of it, but when you're sleeping on concrete, afraid that somebody might hurt you ....

Comment preview: We were best friends growing up. We were always in the same advanced classes in elementary and middle school. In third grade we made fake math "homework" assignments for each other. She came from a very nice, well-off two parent household that supported ev ....

Comment preview: I haven't weighed myself in a while but I think I'd have tipped over into the obese category by now. At this point my diet looks something like this: * 2 Morning cups of coffee, no breakfast. * Lunch at about 3pm, usually left overs or a tuna sandwich (1 s ....

Comment preview: I appreciate the kind words but I've learned to dislike people, it's why I created the sockpuppets persona and hide behind it. I became an alcoholic, although I've been sober (dry, whatever) for a month now. Just to finish my pity party: My brother died of ....

Comment preview: Smoked everyday for 10 years, for the last 8 years it's been smoking when I got up in the morning, lunch breaks, evenings, *all the time*. I still had a good job and built my career during this time, had girlfriends, and even met my current girlfriend, all ....

Comment preview: Booze Cruises are popular for young adults around the European beach resorts. Having been on my fair share this is how it usually goes: Picked up from your hotel at whatevertime. Sometimes they are evening/sunset cruises, sometimes they are 1pm or somethin ....

Comment preview: I'm kind of weak-willed, and get addicted to shit very easily. For a while, I was hooked on hydrocodones/loritabs/vicodin (any of those, really), but it went largely unnoticed because I lived in an apartment where everyone was partying constantly. I was ar ....

Comment preview: This is what Alcoholics do. We drink. For alcoholics, every day is a conscious struggle (some days harder than most) not to drink. The urge ebbs and flows; comes in seasons. No matter what happens, how long we've been sober, how long we spend in jail, what ....