Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6HL6Q725571; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:06:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:06:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <27A0308E.1F83AA60.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2647] Re: women and alcoholism X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1221 Lines: 15 Daphne, What a great topic, and I'd love to hear other experiences. I grew up in an "alcohol culture," everyone drank, normally, and some very fine stuff, too! So I drank a fair amount until a couple of things happened: 1) I became a member of a "food culture," big eaters, light drinkers. Now I have to be careful of how much I eat. 2) Alcohol slowed me down and affected my work, I was "loosing time" from my life. I also wanted to become a different person, more focused,and I wanted to use my time to accomplish something, so I quit cold turkey. Last winter I started spending time with one of my "alcohol culture' friends, and by golly,I started to drink again! I checked this with my doc,and by gum alcohol goes very badly with some of the heavy meds I take. Now I have one drink a week, Friday night. My father drank to stupefaction, pretty ugly stuff, and with me, drinking is associated with loss of control, so I don't like to be around guys who drink a lot, I leave the room party, etc. I think one of the first lines of attack about this problem, could be medical--people should get liver function tests. Take a blood sample. Besides doing all the social damage, alcohol can kill you. Andrea
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