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Many who try to
make their lives better with the use of alcohol encounter a problem.
Alcohol is a
depressant. The boost some think they enjoy when they begin the use of
alcohol soon fades. Alcohol is also a drug that begins to take control of
the lives of people who drink more to get the lift a small amount supplied
them at first.
Without
realizing it they come to depend on alcohol more and more. When that
happens, alcohol controls their lives more than they are aware.
A friend of
mine never took a drink of alcohol until he was 50 years old. A race riot
occurred in his community. He was awake most of three days and nights. As
the riot was coming to an end my friend’s doctor told him if he would take a
little alcohol it would help him go to sleep and rest longer. It worked for
that.
My friend's
job kept him under some pressure. Without realizing it he used alcohol more
and more to relax.
One day he
was under severe pressure all morning, and he drank more alcohol than he
ever had. When he got in his car to go across the city to a luncheon he
blacked out on the way. While unconscious he ran into the rear end of a car
stopped for a red light, the gas tank on that car exploded, and two women in
the back seat of it burned to death. My friend woke up in a hospital. The
police were guarding his room. He was charged with driving while
intoxicated, and involuntary manslaughter of two women.
He recovered
physically, but emotionally he lived wishing he had died in the accident, he
never drank again, but his regret never left him. How he wished he had never
started.
Harvey
Childress, a hopeful friend. |
