Is alcoholism a disease?

**JerseyGirl** · 01-25-2014, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by GRADS

This is some funny shit!!!

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clip...ddys-very-sick

Didn't You start this thread??

**SBS933** · 01-25-2014, 09:50 PM

NO, It's an addiction like coke and speed. Some people do coke once and it takes them over, I have lost 2 buddies to that shit. They eventually went to speed and time took over. I also lost a friend that literally drank himself to death, thanks to the government sending him checks because he was a past junkie and couldn't work. that made him eligable for SSI, I drank with these guys and smoked all the crack they put in front of me, but hell if I would spend a dime on it. Not my deal, drank beer all thru High School and quit when I had kids. now I drink as much as I want when i want too. I don't live for the stuff even though I joke about it. I have 1 friend left and he was addicted to speed when he moved to Kansas, he is still alive and I have to guess he quit the stuff. I hear this thru the grapevine. I love my beer, but I don't give a rats ass when it runs out. Maybe I shouldn't joke about it, cause it does bring a lot of grief to a lot of people. But then again, that's not really my problem. Just my .02

**gn7** · 01-25-2014, 10:04 PM

Its only a disease when somebody else has it, not me. Maybe its the shit they drink that causes it. I knew there was something I didn't like about Bud.

**Napanutt** · 01-25-2014, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by SBS933

NO, It's an addiction like coke and speed. Some people do coke once and it takes them over, I have lost 2 buddies to that shit. They eventually went to speed and time took over. I also lost a friend that literally drank himself to death, thanks to the government sending him checks because he was a past junkie and couldn't work. that made him eligable for SSI, I drank with these guys and smoked all the crack they put in front of me, but hell if I would spend a dime on it. Not my deal, drank beer all thru High School and quit when I had kids. now I drink as much as I want when i want too. I don't live for the stuff even though I joke about it. I have 1 friend left and he was addicted to speed when he moved to Kansas, he is still alive and I have to guess he quit the stuff. I hear this thru the grapevine. I love my beer, but I don't give a rats ass when it runs out. Maybe I shouldn't joke about it, cause it does bring a lot of grief to a lot of people. But then again, that's not really my problem. Just my .02

I've got so much first person responses here but
A: story way too long.
B: I can't type/hunt and peck fast enough to post here on the phone.

**Tishimself** · 01-25-2014, 10:19 PM

When I graduated from aircrew school in the Navy down in Pensacola, we went out and went to this bar that was for Navy fly boys. Drank beer just fine, but no one ever told me not to drink Jack also. Puked all the way back to the base and all the next day, my first and only case of alcohol poisoning. It was enough. I hate being drunk, when I feel myself getting drunk I stop and switch to something less, and after I took the job with the RR, and all the random's they did on us, I just plain stopped drinking. To this day I am a total fucking lightweight, I get a buzz sniffing the bottle cap off the bottle. And I don't care. The thing that really fucked me up though was this guy who spiked my beer with a shot of everclear. I couldn't move for hours, and on top of that, I drove home from Garden Grove to Anaheim Hills. Not good. Went back a few days later and beat him into the fucking ground. Tore up his shithole of a house, and told him if I ever saw him again it would be worse. I never did. Scared the living shit out of me, the things that could have gone wrong, I don't have to tell you. I got really lucky. Since then, I just stay away unless I am somewhere where I can just realx and enjoy myself and not have to worry about trains or driving anywhere. I am by far, the best designated driver you will ever find....LOL...so that's my story. I'm not ashamed of being a lightweight, I feel like my life is bigger than me, and I need to act accordingly.

**SBS933** · 01-25-2014, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by Napanutt

I've got so much first person responses here but
A: story way too long.
B: I can't type/hunt and peck fast enough to post here on the phone.

Just trying to state,I had all my friends fall to alcohol or drugs. I did all as I pleased and got to work on Mon. Neither Drugs or Alcohol grabbed me by the ass. SOOOO They got addicted, not Diseased. that's all. Sorry for the commentary Big Dog.

**Tishimself** · 01-25-2014, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by SBS933

Just trying to state,I had all my friends fall to alcohol or drugs. I did all as I pleased and got to work on Mon. Neither Drugs or Alcohol grabbed me by the ass. SOOOO They got addicted, not Diseased. that's all. Sorry for the commentary Big Dog.

Wait till this new shit called Krocodil hits the streets out here...from mother Russia, and supposed to hook you 100% on the first toke. Supposed to be the most addictive drug on the planet.

**Napanutt** · 01-25-2014, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by SBS933

Just trying to state,I had all my friends fall to alcohol or drugs. I did all as I pleased and got to work on Mon. Neither Drugs or Alcohol grabbed me by the ass. SOOOO They got addicted, not Diseased. that's all. Sorry for the commentary Big Dog.

I'm gonna be 50 next month. I don't correspond with anyone I went to school with, haven't for years. My life is so much different now than it was then.

**SBS933** · 01-25-2014, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Napanutt

I'm gonna be 50 next month. I don't correspond with anyone I went to school with, haven't for years. My life is so much different now than it was then.

I'm with you there and I did the same, but they all lived in the neighborhood so the news kept rolling.