On drinking alcohol

Drinking small amounts is compatible with a healthy lifestyle. For some people, it can confer benefits to health. Drinking 1-2 units a day on a regular basis may reduce the risk of heart disease in men over 40 and in women after the menopause. However, it is also perfectly healthy not to drink alcohol at all.

Scottish Plan For Action on Alcohol Problems 2004

An ongoing program of recovery

At my wife's request and my family's demand, I entered treatment ... A model patient, I said and did all the right things while I was an inpatient and made gestures at sobriety when I came out, but I had no ongoing program of recovery and soon backslid into using.

David Carr: The Night of the Gun

Mistakes about alcoholism

People generally make two mistakes about alcoholism. One mistake is that it can be cured by physical treatment only. The other mistake is that it can be cured by willpower only.

Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Waffen & Suff

Was kann man nun tun gegen eine geladene Waffe in der Hand eines Betrunkenen, der von einer Frau abgewiesen wurde? Auf der Strasse gehen unerwiderte Liebe und Tod fast genau so oft Hand in Hand wie in Shakespeares Werken.

Scott Turow: Das Gesetz der Väter

Spieler

Ich betrat den Club, wo sich nachmittägliche Besucher amüsierten. Falls man von Spielern sagen kann, dass sie sich amüsieren.

Ross Macdonald: Camping im Leichenwagen

Vom Glauben (2)

Ich habe Ihnen beigebracht, dass Sie den ersten Schritt machen müssen: zu lernen, an den Glauben zu glauben. Und eines Tages werden Sie den zweiten Schritt machen und herausfinden, an was Sie glauben.

Paul Torday
Lachsfischen im Jemen

Certified Counselling

Are you a certified addiction counsellor?
Of course not, I know what I'm talking about.
Aren't you a bit arrogant?
Not at all. I believe that the counsellors are arrogant who simply pass an exam but have never had any personal experience of addiction.
Well, you wouldn't require veterinarians to turn into horses first, right?
No, but addicts have special radars, they can smell other addicts, and they simply do not trust counsellors whose only qualification is to be certified by the system a lot of addicts, seemingly, do not want to be part of.