A documentary on HBO.
These folks do some serious imbibing! They do a blurb on four different people. One is the typical binge drinking 20 something, who works all week, and drinks until she can't see straight on the weekends. She says she has four of five drinks, but the camera crew tallies up 14-15. The next is a 50ish guy who plows into it first thing in the morning. Has his 15 year old boy who is visiting get his rum and cigarettes for him. Quits and relapses several times. Current wife takes him back in, and two days later he is drinking again, and she wishes him dead.
Then, and this is the one that pissed me off the most, you have the middle aged mom who has a blog and met a few other soccer moms who love to "take the edge off" with wine. Yes, when you have a problem, just surround yourself with 6 other people who share that problem, and now......you're all normal!
Last, they did a story on a guy who is so far gone, if he doesn't drink, he can't function. He was a successful businessman making over $100k yearly, now he works part-time in a grocery store where he goes to his car and downs two or three beers on breaks so he can get through the day. His wife meets him there to make sure he eats toothpaste after he is done, to help mask the beer. This guy has been in and out of detox several time, and will only end the cycle when he finally is found dead. He even admits this fact.
Very sad to watch.
These folks do some serious imbibing! They do a blurb on four different people. One is the typical binge drinking 20 something, who works all week, and drinks until she can't see straight on the weekends. She says she has four of five drinks, but the camera crew tallies up 14-15. The next is a 50ish guy who plows into it first thing in the morning. Has his 15 year old boy who is visiting get his rum and cigarettes for him. Quits and relapses several times. Current wife takes him back in, and two days later he is drinking again, and she wishes him dead.
Then, and this is the one that pissed me off the most, you have the middle aged mom who has a blog and met a few other soccer moms who love to "take the edge off" with wine. Yes, when you have a problem, just surround yourself with 6 other people who share that problem, and now......you're all normal!
Last, they did a story on a guy who is so far gone, if he doesn't drink, he can't function. He was a successful businessman making over $100k yearly, now he works part-time in a grocery store where he goes to his car and downs two or three beers on breaks so he can get through the day. His wife meets him there to make sure he eats toothpaste after he is done, to help mask the beer. This guy has been in and out of detox several time, and will only end the cycle when he finally is found dead. He even admits this fact.
Very sad to watch.
