Comments on: DRUGS IN THE WORKPLACE: What an employer needs to know http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/drug-rehab-workplace/ Addiction treatment, drug rehab, substance abuse prevention, sober living information and much more! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:52:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Frank http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/drug-rehab-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-1474 Frank Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:22:11 +0000 http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/drug-rehab-workplace/#comment-1474 In my opinion, having once been a heavy drinker myself (read: alcoholic), you are an alcoholic already by your own words because you: Make resolutions to stop, but don't Panic when no alcohol is available Have blackouts - a very dangerous phenomena Use alcohol as a social crutch Admit you can't drink in moderation Fear the future Next year? Worse than this year. And even worse the year after that; and the one after that, and the one after that, and so on until you have lost everything, including your self-respect for the many things you will have lowered yourself to do in order to obtain alcohol. There are more features to alcoholism than are presented in the above list. But don't worry, you will eventually experience them all. And when you do you will be at the very bottom of a very deep, very dark pit with UP the only place to go because you will have sunk to the very bottom of human existence. I suggest you rent the movie "The Days of Wine and Roses" and also get yourself to an AA meeting. You don't have to say anything there, or even to admit you're an alcoholic. Just go and listen. I believe if you do this, you will discover a place where no sane person wants to go. You have the strength inside you to emerge victorious from this confrontation with your demons. I do hope you can find it. In my opinion, having once been a heavy drinker myself (read: alcoholic), you are an alcoholic already by your own words because you:

Make resolutions to stop, but don’t
Panic when no alcohol is available
Have blackouts - a very dangerous phenomena
Use alcohol as a social crutch
Admit you can’t drink in moderation
Fear the future

Next year? Worse than this year. And even worse the year after that; and the one after that, and the one after that, and so on until you have lost everything, including your self-respect for the many things you will have lowered yourself to do in order to obtain alcohol.

There are more features to alcoholism than are presented in the above list. But don’t worry, you will eventually experience them all. And when you do you will be at the very bottom of a very deep, very dark pit with UP the only place to go because you will have sunk to the very bottom of human existence.

I suggest you rent the movie “The Days of Wine and Roses” and also get yourself to an AA meeting. You don’t have to say anything there, or even to admit you’re an alcoholic. Just go and listen. I believe if you do this, you will discover a place where no sane person wants to go. You have the strength inside you to emerge victorious from this confrontation with your demons. I do hope you can find it.

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