MikeM

Since I couldn't sleep, I decided to browse YouTube for anti alcohol ads. I have compiled a list of the shocking ones. The shock effect works the best and sadly, the shocking ones are also the most realistic.

I would like to note three things:

1. Some of them are about drinking and driving or being outside to begin with while drunk. I have NEVER driven drunk. It is a line I cannot cross. And very, very rarely I would be outside for a short while close to home while drunk.

2, I do not have children and I'm sure it would be impossible for me to drink if I did. Another line. But I do find that the commercials involving children work for me as well, since they show the effect you have on your environment.

3. These *are* intense and shocking commercials. My attitude nowadays is to watch them anyway, even if you really find it difficult. I don't find it very difficult, though the shock-effect is there. But even if I were very sensitive to it, I would still watch them to strengthen my sobriety. But of course, everyone should decide for themselves.

So, here's the list. Wake up and see the horror that is alcohol:

https://youtu.be/USK467olE6E?t=151

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwdUXS94yNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NP2q-7ekqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfY7L_QUk8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5qDxemOK1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b69J_bMoYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otR8V7rlnjA

Upward2Enlightenment

Good for you taking such an active role in your sobriety Mike.

mcflurry

Oh wow. Powerful stuff. Especially the last one.

No I never drove drunk either, not intentionally anyway. It's all too easy to be over the limit the day after a heavy binge though. I remember feeling paranoid about getting in the car at all after one of these days and if I had to flinching at every police car. not a good way to be- so glad I'm free for that.

one week today Mike- congratulations!

'if you drink drive, you're a bloody idiot.' good phrase, got to love australia, you don't get ads like that in the UK

Meraviglioso

That is a good point about driving the day after mcflurry. I know of a very sad case where a doctor was driving to work in the morning, with a BAC over the limit from the night before. He hit and killed a young mother out for her morning run.
He had 3 or 4 children himself, and was a single father because their mother had been killed by a drunk driver. Now these children would be without their mother because she was killed by a drunk driver and without their father because he was in jail for drunk driving. Very sad.

FreeOwl

thanks for sharing, Mike... and I think this was a great example of taking a clear ACTION in support of sobriety.

Reminding ourselves of the consequences - real and potential - and the reasons we chose sobriety in the first place is a very helpful exercise.

sadsadgirl

Some powerful adverts there. I'm very moved. Thanks for posting

newhope01

Just finally got a chance to watch these and it was uncomfortable to say the least. Not fun being able to relate to these videos. Thanks for sharing.

ZeldaFan

Thanks for sharing those links, Mike. It's a shame this kind of thing isn't pushed more to the public. In the US, all we get is ads on TV showing how wonderful drinking is and how fantastic it makes your life. Then at the end of the commercial in very small font you see "Please drink responsibly." and that makes everything else before it just fine.

Rcvringaddict30

Wow... Those were some disturbing and powerful videos that will haunt me.
It is a shame that most of these commercials are not aired often, if EVER in the US. Instead alcohol is glamorized in commercials, just as Zeldafan was saying above.