Are you a Social Drinker?

This post tends to be a foghorn to all folks 'drinking alcohol'. Alcohol stands for joy, celebration, sharing love and grief, status, stress buster, better health with prescribed consumption etc.

It is ridiculous to care the ‘statutory warnings’ by the producers and sellers say ‘bad to health, family and society’ because we are aware of millions of people drinking and living a good and successful life around the world. However, the other side of the effects of alcohol in human life is a grievous matter of lives. Though we are experts in alcoholism including the author we just aim at basic sensitization among the drinkers. This also for people need to know about 'alcohol rehab'  centers.

Social drinkers

The 'percentage of alcohol consumers'  in India might be lower than other countries the % of 'alcoholics' is growing. It is said to be 10-15% of drinkers develop alcoholism but I read somewhere and believe it is 20% but could not trace the source of my reading.

Drinking starts happily and never lasts so to everybody. 

'The 5 types of drinkers' might be

alcoholic

1. Occasional drinkers

2. Social Drinkers

3. Regular social drinkers

4. Hard drinkers

5. Abusers and

6. Alcoholics

None of the drinkers belongs to any of the first five categories knows when and how will they develop to the condition of the disease ‘Alcoholism’. Let us have look at one of the ‘alcoholic’s history and I alert you to evaluate yourself.

'TRUE STORY' – (we don’t really require the name of the person who is still living with us)

I remember I was very fond of drinks from a tender age. I just had a liking for it. My parents did not drink nor my brother and two sisters. I was brought up in a village and there were some country made medicines that contained alcohol. I used to simply pretend that I have a tummy ache and ask my mother for that medicine shot which contained alcohol. It gave me a nice feeling and a warm glow within me. During my school and college, there were a few instances when I had a small drink.
When I came to Mumbai, I was just 17 years of age. I remember accompanying my relatives who drank regularly and I used to just sip from their glasses and feel happy. Up to the age of 26 drinking was occasional. Then on, I had become a weekend drinker in the company of my friends and relatives. This continued for an year or so. I could not get the right mood with just a peg or two.
My intake increased as the time passed. I would create special occasions, like home parties, picnics etc. just to drink more and more. At the age of 30 I had become daily compulsive boozard. There was prohibition in Mumbai and so I was drinking country liquor. By this time, my financial health was very bad and I had large debts. I would lie to friends to borrow money for drinking and fan my big shotitism followed than on. By the age 33, I was left with just my Job and a rented flat. My bank balance and good friends had disappeared. I would get blackouts after a few drinks and did not know what I did rest of the time until I awoke the next morning. I was living in fear. The life I led was lonely.

I had remorse often for excessive drinking and the arguments and verbal fights I used to indulge in. I had lost God. Fortunately, I neither gambled nor womanized. I smoked around 70 cigarettes a day. I had become a hopeless case. I tried several methods to control my drinking but failed in every attempt. Alcohol had become my master I was its slave.

Many funny incidents took place in my day-to-day life. I was a headache to self and others. I would play music full blast on a 180-watt amplifier at 2 am thinking it is 2 pm. I would wake the neighborhood Sometimes I would smash my crockery at 3 am and create a lot of noise. Next morning I was very ashamed and would crave for a drink to forget the previous night’s episode.
'Compulsive drinking' and 'Binge Drinking' gave me painful hangovers, cold sweats and weakness regularly as during this period I could not eat for days on end.

I had come to a dead end. I had faith in Mother Mary and as a Roman Catholic by birth, I used to pray to Her, sober or drunk, to help me to get out of this drunkenness. On the 2nd of October 1968 I went searching for Alcoholics Anonymous and attended my first A.A. meeting at Foundation Group. Two months and seven days I did not touch any kind of liquor. I was feeling nice within and also put on some weight. But I doubted the statement in A.A. "Once an Alcoholic Always an Alcoholic" I would try to prove A.A. wrong on this. I went to experiment against advice and went to have just 2 pegs and stop. Unfortunately I could not stop drinking for 7 more months. This was the worst of my drinking career. I crawled back to "A.A". once again on the 27th of July, 1969, a totally defeated and humbled man.

The story goes on explaining how s/he came up in life with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous and 'de-addiction'. Ayurveda powders like 'addiction Killer' , 'No addiction', 'zero addiction' will never help. 
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