Dauernd - Lasting

The effects of alcohol abuse can be terrible and long-lasting. Messed up liver, prison for the almost inevitable domestic abuse, and homelessness due to lack of cash directed at anything other than a liquid diet of booze and possibly Cuppa Soup. I never quite understand how people can get addicted to alcohol. I’m not going to debate with medical professionals who can prove it’s a drug that is physically addictive. I’m sure whatever they tell us is based on sound research - unlike the totally fraudulent stuff that constituted most of my GCSE, A-Level and university coursework. I enjoy drinking but only to a certain point; once you get beyond tipsy and start to loose control, it ceases to be fun and becomes something far more sinister. Also you know you’re in for an absolutely horrific hangover day where you’ll have an unbearably pounding head and be puking up nothingness by the bucket load. I just can’t be bothered with that any more. The only reason to drink beyond the merry and tipsy stage is for the enjoyment of others, and if that’s your aim at the start of any given night out, you’re in trouble from the get-go. On a rare occasion I will just throw caution to the wind and decide to drink to excess, but that’s often only because I’ve not been violently sick for several months and because I know I’m not an angry or violent drunk - I just get a little more stupid and sometimes slightly more funny. Still, the next morning I do regret it, which is probably the vicious circle in which actual alcoholics find themselves ensnared. The regret leads to more drink which leads to more regret and so on and so. To break the cycle can’t be very easy, but I’d suggest directing that powerful regretful emotion into something more positive - I’m currently too pissed to think of anything that useful or even a bit funny, but there must be something. I’d conduct some research, but I’d only make up the results anyway so it’d be a bit pointless.