When To Throw Away The Bottle

A popular misconception about alcoholism is that the alcoholic needs to reach the gutter before he can be helped. By that time, the alcoholic is beyond help with his addiction and is probably in need of hospitalization. Of course, he will relapse once out of the hospital He has no incentive not to continue to drink massive amounts of alcohol to reach the same kind of stupor he reached before each and every cell in his body was pickled.
The main culprits in aiding to an alcoholic addicts continued use of alcohol are those who will cover for him, attack people who disclose his addiction to the neighborhood, and who will consider his drunken stupors as funny so long as he is able to continue standing on his feet. Even when he is hospitalized, his enablers will shower him with flowers, candy and unwanted attention. They are not being nice to the drunk, they are being nice to themselves since they are not interested in his health but only interested in what they perceive is their connection and their role in society. His behavior as a drunk reinforces their role as the quietly suffering spouse or the indulgent dad or worse yet the loving daughter.
The drunks antics when soused with ten whiskey and three beer with egg chasers, gives them an opportunity to show their love and compassion for their drunk. No, an alcoholic does not need to crash on the streets with AIDS or worse yet stone cold dead to begin to save himself from his alcoholic addiction. The alcoholic needs to move from his neighborhood, from his family and from every social connection that has led to his alcoholism. The most sorrowful expression by an alcoholic is that he likes to drink. And, his family and friends will echo that same sentiment that he just likes to drink.
Funny cartoons of the drunken leprechaun are made about him or the soused up Santa Claus. After all, some families of the luckier alcoholics think, at least he doesn't get violent when he's drunk. The alcoholic buffoon is sometimes played up in a community accusing victims of his behavior while drunk that, don't you drink too. They go in front of an alcoholic with a cup of coffee and jeer at him that they are drinking too and why aren't they getting drunk?
An alcoholic who has passed the threshold of tolerance and who needs to get physically sick in order to stop drink alcohol can only be dried out away from the community that has accepted him as their buffoon. People are addicts worst friends. The fact that someone else is carrying the brunt of a communal joke makes them feel better about themselves. The most perverted thinking imaginable is acted out as compassionate acceptance for a town alcohol stupefied drunk.
The time for an alcoholic to stop drinking is when he can be shown that he no longer feels that initial rush of excitement when drinking and feels depressed with the first drink. The alcoholic should face an intervention at that time if caught or if media pressured.
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