#alcohol

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink. ↗

— Tom Waits

#drinking #problems

Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin ↗

— Vicki M. Taylor

#hard-hitting #mystery-suspense #teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse #thought-provoking #thought-provoking

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#alcoholic #because #i #know

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out. ↗

— Evan Dando

#addictive #alcohol #around #certainly #i

I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me. ↗

— Betty Ford

#allergic #eat #i #i think #kind

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic? ↗

— Betty Ford

#behaved #bottle #could #finished #how

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#also #because #bed #discouraged #everything

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#alcohol #discovered #food #george #medical

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good. ↗

— Ron Wood

#behind #being #did #die #dope