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Planning Your Life Around Your Alcoholic Anonymous Meeting Schedule
Next you will want to break the pattern of drinking. In order to be successful in this step, you will have to determine how, why and when you drink. Drinkers normally have a cycle and that cycle must be broken. If you are drinking with friends, avoid the friends. If you are drinking each night when you get home from work, try to find something to substitute for the alcohol. Keep yourself busy and most importantly, use positive re info rcement.

Middle Stage: The middle stage is defined as needing to drink more and more to get the same "buzz". Your alcoholic spouse will not admit a drinking problem to you, but he/she has thought about it a lot. His/her brain is alcohol dependent. In other words, alcohol withdrawal symptoms such as insomnia and shakiness occurs if he/she tries to quit drinking. Black outs and hangovers are common. S.L fits into this category.

If caught, the PA DUI laws specify that your punishment will be related to how much alcohol is in your system. The lowest level is enacted when you're caught with a blood alcohol level (BAC) of .08 to .099. The intermediate level is .1 to .159. Anything over .16 is punished at the most severe level.

As suggested above, not every alcohol treatment program approves the 12 steps. Some in the medical profession are unconvinced to a spiritual approach to treatment, while some more spiritual rehabilitation programs abandon one or two of the steps, as some reject the idea that the alcoholic can never be cured of alcoholism.

Remember that hunting trip you went on in your truck? What about those beer cans that are still in the back, from that trip? How about that flask you keep in your glove box? Or what about that flask in your golf bag? Go to your car and remove anything and everything that could remotely construed as having anything to do with you drinking. It's all about not providing evidence from which the district attorney can get a conviction. Don't make it easy on them by giving them a few month old beer cans or an old flask to use as evidence against you.

alcoholics anonymous members encourage us to work closely with our sponsor when making our ninth step amends. Each sponsor will certainly have his or her own take on the best way to word the amends. We should discuss each amend, and the particular situation with our sponsor before making it.

Let us dig further about the risk of drunk driving. If you are a person who weighs 160-pound and drinks two bottle of beers in an hour, you might accumulate a BAC of 0.04, an amount that is fairly legal according to the law. However, you still are 1.4 times more likely to be involved in an accident than a driver who is sober.

A night of drinking may seem innocent and fun. However, getting behind the wheel after drinking beyond our limit is completely irresponsible and disrespectful. The man who nearly ran over me had no thought about who he may be affecting by his drunk driving. Well, he definitely affected mine that evening.

Other states have a system whereby a driver goes to court, admits to driving when drunk, and receives a reduced penalty. Often the penalty is to require that the driver perform some type of community service, attend alcohol/drug awareness classes, and pay a reduced fine. After a period of time, if the driver is not charged again with driving under the influence, the driver can seek to have the conviction expunged or removed from the driver's record.


Over time however the alcohol is robbing your body of its vital nutrients and causing damage to many vital organs. Causing problems such as alcohol hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver, brain, heart and stomach disease. Lets not forget death. Basically your hangover becomes a permanent physical condition alleviated only by more alcohol.

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