steve11694

For those of you/us battling to understand alcoholism, perhaps it is better to not even try.....


"told a judge Monday he plans to plead guilty to the assault, along with trespassing and alcohol charges. He said he's had a long battle with alcohol and was trying to correct the problem during his most recent one-year jail term, which ended last week."

NH man arrested for the 153rd time to plead guilty - *****! News

TakingCharge999

Wow. Yup, ex AH also stated he was planning to drink until the very last day of his life.
How much clearer did it have to be for me?

I wonder if he still plans the same after his body starts resenting so much alcohol. I am willing to bet that will not be any wake up call either.

Still Waters

There is always another reason for illness, it's never the alcohol. Repeated hospitalizations for pancreatitis? Not the drinking. Severe scarring of the pancreas? Not the drinking. ER run for accident with power tools? Nothing to do with being drunk.

steve11694

Exactly, it is never the alcohol. Q; Why do you look like a zombie A; I have a cold(for one year)

They actually cannot see alcohol as being related to illness or problems(in many instances) Can deny drinking despite a legally intoxicated BAL

And then there are ones that know it is the problem but do not care.

GiveLove

That's why I'm constantly up in arms about the lack of laws against drivers with repeated DUIs.

Honestly, there's no counting the number of deaths that could be prevented in my state if they would just incarcerate people who insist on accumulating DUIs. Why are we so soft on this issue?

A client of the daycare center I do work for - a 9-year-old girl named Melody Osheroff - was walking in a crosswalk when she was creamed by a guy on his Harley who already had *6* DUI convictions. Her father had to have his legs amputated and is crippled for life. Recently here in CO, a guy with 12 DUIs crashed his car, killing his wife and daughter. Remind me again why these people weren't in a jail cell somewhere already...why I have to risk my life out there on the roads with them?

Sorry for the tone...this is very fresh for me and I am really not seeing the point of not treating criminals like criminals, especially when they're essentially ticking bombs on the road.

(GiveLove steps off soapbox and goes for more coffee...)

Still Waters

GL - the only way to stop them, is to lock them up. Removing their licenses won't make any difference.