Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 | Realization
Chapter 2 | You’re Different When You Drink
Chapter 4 | My Life With the Bottle, Part 1
Chapter 7 | For Teens and Young Adults: Your Whole Life Changed in One Wasted Moment
Chapter 8 | The Brainwashing of America’s Youth
Chapter 10 | Alcohol and Cancer
Chapter 11 | Alcohol and the Heart
Chapter 12 | Alcohol and Hypertension
Chapter 13 | Alcohol and Depression
Chapter 14 | Alcohol and Osteoporosis
Chapter 15 | Alcohol and the Immune System
Chapter 16 | Alcohol and Allergies
Chapter 17 | Alcohol and GERD
Chapter 18 | Alcohol and Peripheral Neuropathy
Chapter 19 | Alcohol and Insomnia
Chapter 20 | Alcohol Encephalopathy
Chapter 21 | Alcohol Hepatitis
Chapter 22 | Alcoholic Pancreatitis
Chapter 23 | Alcohol, Obesity, and Diabetes
Chapter 24 | Lesser-known Health Problems Due to Alcohol
Chapter 25 | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Chapter 26 | My Life with the Bottle: Part II
Chapter 27 | Alcoholic and Addicted Doctors
Chapter 28 | DUI
Chapter 29 | Observations of a Highway Patrol Officer
Chapter 30 | Scott
Chapter 31 | The Sarcastic Drunk
Chapter 32 | The Mean Drunk
Chapter 33 | Monsters
Chapter 34 | I Have An Excuse
Chapter 35 | Native Americans
Chapter 36 | Reactive Drinking
Chapter 37 | Bud
Chapter 38 | Concealing the Problem
Chapter 39 | The Drunk in the Boardroom
Chapter 40 | Ernest Hemingway
Chapter 41 | Pride Cometh before the Drink: The Failure of Personal Strength and Willpower in the Battle against Alcohol
Chapter 42 | He Had It All
Chapter 43 | The Trail Ride
Chapter 44 | The Holiday Party
Chapter 45 | Lessons from the Liberty Tattoo Clinic
Chapter 46 | Enabling
Chapter 47 | Alcoholism: Criteria
Chapter 48 | How I Got Sober
Chapter 49 | Why Should You Quit
Works Cited
Appendix One
Appendix Two