Table of Contents
Please note, chapter titles set in ALL CAPS link to excerpts
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 | Realization
Chapter 2 | You’re Different When You Drink
Chapter 4 | My Life With the Bottle, Part 1
Chapter 7 | Teen Choices that Last a Lifetime
Chapter 8 | Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain
Chapter 9 | The Brainwashing of America’s Youth
Chapter 11 | Alcohol and Cancer
Chapter 12 | How Does Alcohol Cause Cancer?
Chapter 13 | Alcohol and the Heart
Chapter 14 | Alcohol and Hypertension
Chapter 15 | Alcohol and Depression
Chapter 16 | Alcohol and Osteoporosis
Chapter 17 | Alcohol and the Immune System
Chapter 18 | Alcohol and Allergies
Chapter 19 | Alcohol and GERD
Chapter 20 | Alcohol and Peripheral Neuropathy
Chapter 21 | Alcohol and Insomnia
Chapter 22 | Alcohol Encephalopathy
Chapter 23 | Alcohol Hepatitis
Chapter 24 | Alcoholic Pancreatitis
Chapter 25 | Alcohol, Obesity, and Diabetes
Chapter 26 | Cirrhosis
Chapter 27 | Lesser-known Health Problems Due to Alcohol
Chapter 28 | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Chapter 29 | My Life with the Bottle: Part II
Chapter 30 | Sarah’s Story—Guest Author
Chapter 31 | Allison’s Story—Guest Author
Chapter 32 | Alcoholic and Addicted Doctors
Chapter 33 | Observations of a Highway Patrol Officer
Chapter 34 | Scott
Chapter 35 | I Have an Excuse
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 | Alcoholism and AA
Chapter 42 | Lessons from the Liberty Tattoo Clinic
Chapter 43 | Enabling
Chapter 44 | Alcoholism: Criteria
Chapter 45 | How I Got Sober
Works Cited
Appendix One
Appendix Two: The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
