To all those who are living the high school student life of partying hard on weekends, I ask you to watch out! I use to get drunk on weekends and thought that’s what weekends were for. I then went to University where the parties were crazier and it was no longer just weekends. My priorities [...]
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People who take alcohol are not alert. It impairs their ability to react even when it seems to them they are more alert because of it Alcohol has some medicanal value. It can be grossly overestimated. Don’t let anyone who has been drinking drive you in a car of fly you in a plane. Drinking [...]
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I started drinking when I was 19 years old because I started to hangout with the wrong people who told me that it was cool to do. At 20 years old I lost a lot that was ready to get its foundation layed. I also went through 2 cars that I crashed due to drinking [...]
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A mother who interrogates her teen doesn’t “hate” them, as the teen may suspect, but rather, loves them enough to care. A mother who often discusses the dangers of drinking and/or doing drugs isn’t nagging, but rather, loving you enough to constantly remind you of the dangers.
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Still, a year later, a late night call did change our lives once again. My ex had driven once again after drinking all night at a bar and this time there had been a fatality. He was gone. I helped the kids through that time. Although their father was an alcoholic, they did have some fond memories of him and did grieve for him a great deal.
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Because drinking is socially acceptable, it isn’t always apparent right away that someone we know may have an alcohol addiction. Moderate alcohol is considered two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women,
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