Intervention - A&E

[LocalMotion]

The new intervention is about some guy named Dan from Hawaii. He is/was a alcoholic. They never mentioned where exactly in hawaii...

anyone know this guy or anything about him? he's suppose to be sober now since Dec 2007

[timkona]

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I never totally trust a person who does not drink at all, in as much as I don't trust folks who drink way too much. And I sometimes watch this show.

[Lei Liko]

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I never totally trust a person who does not drink at all, in as much as I don't trust folks who drink way too much. And I sometimes watch this show.

May I ask why you never totally trust a person who does not drink at all? How are they less trustworthy than a normal drinker?

[timkona]

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Moderation is always better than absolutes.

[Walkoff Balk]

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Doesn't Hawaii rank high of alcohol consumed in percentage of the population for a state in the USA?

[LocalMotion]

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Moderation is always better than absolutes.

so where do you draw the line? you trust someone that does drugs over someone that doesn't?

[Lei Liko]

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Moderation is always better than absolutes.

Not everyone can be lucky and be a 'normie'. My hat's off to you, timkona.

For some people, being sober is a way of life because they know that they just can't drink in moderation like most people.

[timkona]

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So it begs the question, if one cannot control ones drinking, is that the only part of ones life not controlled properly. All or nothing is seldom the correct answer.

[Lei Liko]

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So it begs the question, if one cannot control ones drinking, is that the only part of ones life not controlled properly. All or nothing is seldom the correct answer.

Alcoholics are people who have lost their ability to control their drinking. There is no such thing as "controlled drinking" when it comes to alcoholics.

[1stwahine]

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Alcoholics are people who have lost their ability to control their drinking. There is no such thing as "controlled drinking" when it comes to alcoholics.

You are absolutely correct.

There is no such thing as "controlled drinking!"

For an alcoholic...the first drink is their downfall to no return.

Auntie Lynn

[timkona]

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Right Lei, I hear ya. But check the corrollary of the argument which goes something like this.....

Alcohol is the ONLY thing he failed to control in his life.

It is politically incorrect, but nonetheless valid, to state that alc'ies often have other issues.

[Lei Liko]

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Right Lei, I hear ya. But check the corrollary of the argument which goes something like this.....

Alcohol is the ONLY thing he failed to control in his life.

It is politically incorrect, but nonetheless valid, to state that alc'ies often have other issues.

Absolutely. They call em character defects.

[weirdhawaii]

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One of my life's biggest fears.

I'll come home one day, and just find my entire family and some strange dude standing in my kitchen. Everybody crying and saying that, "if I loved them I would do this for them," and the strange guy telling me that this is a family intervention.

[Tiabla]

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One of my life's biggest fears.

I'll come home one day, and just find my entire family and some strange dude standing in my kitchen. Everybody crying and saying that, "if I loved them I would do this for them," and the strange guy telling me that this is a family intervention.

The strange guy would then say something like, "I've been with your family for the last 2 days and I just see a bunch of people here that love you like crazy. They're going to say some things, you're gonna say some things, and then we're done. Okay?"

(Can you tell I've seen every Intervention episode ever aired?)

[Walkoff Balk]

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Does this program cover other addictions such as food? When they have to hemo the whole wall on one side of the house to get that person out of there. Why wasn't there an intervention before the scale headed towards 4 figures?