R U a Bad Drunk?

Get in fights? Ruin relationships? End up in jail or some low rent hospital? Maybe its time to step back. Don't go to those favorite bars. Stay away from those friends that get you in trouble.

If you have the funds, take a vacation. If not, drink at home for a while. Stock up on some movies, take walks, take the bus, see the sights of your own city.

Think about your behavior. Can you change the way you interact and still be drunk?


Or maybe its time to quit. With plenty of funds, there are a few good hospitals that specialize in detoxing you and have rehabilitation programs too.

SOME vets can get detoxed at a local VA. Few VA hospitals offer rehab however.

What if you also have a brain disorder like depression, ptsd or schizophrenia though? A dual diagnosis program is hard to find but they are out there, if you have the funds. No VA I have found offers dual diagnosis rehab.

What if you are poor, like me and have depression? Essentially we poor drunks are TFU. I have heard of one place that MIGHT take Medicare, one in the whole country.

All the time that is lost from work due to our illnesses and addictions, all the money spent on political pork projects or stolen by the government to give to the HUGE companies because their upper management mismanaged money, took their outrageous salaries and are now getting bailed out AND still getting their salaries... and only one dual diagnosis place in the whole country that MIGHT take someone with Medicare and no place in the country where us poor folks can go who don't even have Medicare.

Bail out big business, continue to heap piles of cash on top management of those failing companies and don't even offer the poor and lower income folks a chance out of an addiction, help with depression and the like and a chance to return to a normal or at least better life.

Imagine. The land of opportunity, for the rich. The land of desperation for the poor and disabled.

Imagine. The American dream, for the rich. The American nightmare for the poor and it keeps getting worse.

For now, I just drink at home, enter sweepstakes to win money to have a better life. All I can do for now is be a better drunk, stay out of jail, not bother people, exist.

Skol.