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Your man will fare better if placed in such physical condition that he
can think straight and no longer craves liquor.
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Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
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No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
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If anyone questions whether he has entered this
dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year.
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If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
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Of course an alcoholic ought to be freed from his physical craving for liquor, and this often requires a definite hospital procedure, before psychological measures can be of maximum
benefit.
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I knew everyone would buy a few bottles, or cases, of liquor as their exchequers permitted, and that it would soon be gone.
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He is often perfectly sensible and well balanced concerning everything except liquor, but in that respect he is
incredibly dishonest
and selfish.
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If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
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He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or
may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of
his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
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So it doesn't behoove me to squawk about it for, after all,
nobody ever had to throw me down and pour liquor down my throat.
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But if you really and truly
want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you.
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My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
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We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.
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If he is in a serious mood dwell on the troubles liquor has caused you, being careful not to moralize or lecture.
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People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes; we
must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at
all.
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Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
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My wife became deeply interested, and it
was her interest that sustained mine, though I at no time sensed that it might be an
answer to my liquor problem.
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It is the most natural thing
in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.
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Men who had liquor shipped in from Boston or New York by express were looked upon with great distrust and disfavor by
most of the good townspeople.
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They wanted to say that liquor should be enjoyed, not misused; hard drinkers ought to slow down, and problem drinkers -- alcoholics -- should not drink at all.
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Some time later, and just as he thought he was getting control of his liquor situation, he went on a roaring bender.
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It was really a horrible
nightmare, this earning
money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.
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This had little effect
however for I kept on drinking and used a great deal more hard liquor than in former years.
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He is positive he can handle his liquor, that it does
him no harm, that drinking is necessary in
his business.
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It relieved me somewhat
to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when it
comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects.
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As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.
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It would be a good thing, they
believed, for the liquor trade to show a sense of public responsibility.
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Our liquor was but a symptom.
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No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
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