Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgements


Introduction


Chapter 1 | Realization


Chapter 2 | You’re Different When You Drink


CHAPTER 3 | HOW ALCOHOL MAKES YOU DRUNK


Chapter 4 | My Life With the Bottle, Part 1


CHAPTER 5 | DYING OF ACUTE ALCOHOL POISONING


CHAPTER 6 | DYING FROM CHRONIC ALCOHOL POISONING


Chapter 7 | For Teens and Young Adults: Your Whole Life Changed in One Wasted Moment


Chapter 8 | The Brainwashing of America’s Youth


CHAPTER 9 | ALCOHOL AND YOUR HEALTH: THE GREAT HOAX


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


CHAPTER 50 | IF YOU ONLY KNEW: INFORMED CONSENT


Works Cited


Appendix One


Appendix Two