Word: soberness
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...said they had consumed alcohol in the preceding month. Boomer parents ought not to be too shocked. They whooped it up considerably more in their youths, according to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism records that document how, across every age group, we've become an ever more sober society over the past two decades. In 1979, nearly 50% of 12- to 17- year-olds reported that they drank at some time in the previous month; now that figure is barely 20%. For kids 18 to 25, the stats fell from 75% to 60%. Still, the persistence of youthful...
...Since I've been sober I've had some really hard times," he says. "When I first started doing the steps, that was the first time I thought I wanted to commit suicide. I had to deal with shit instead of drinking to make it go away...
...drinking. On my 15th birthday I was picked up by the cops on runaway charges and was sent to live with my Dad. I was pretty much loaded the entire time I lived there, and I realized later that my dad thought that me loaded was me sober. He didn't know me any different. Eventually I ended up in treatment, and was sober for almost a year. Then I took one sip of beer and my life fell apart instantly. Within 24 hours of that first drink I was in tears because I had to wait three more hours...
...number. I wrote down the address, the time of a meeting, and didn't go. I started dating a drug dealer. That was the beginning of the end, and I realized I had to face up to my addiction. I was only a few months sober when I spent my 21st birthday in Ireland. They were having St Patrick's Day celebrations, delayed because of foot and mouth disease. The first thing I did was go to a meeting...
...about losing their families, their jobs, their houses. I was 17. But when they started talking about trying to commit suicide, drinking on a daily basis, blacking out, I had to relate to those things. I still go to as many meetings as I did when I first got sober - around five a week...