I was in rehab with a hardcore alcoholic, and even after a few weeks his shakes were still so bad that he still couldn't light his own cigarette. He refused any librium after his initial detox, even with the worst shakes I have ever seen. He said that when he was drinking, he needed someone to open the bottle and take a few swigs because otherwise it would have been wasted by him spilling it from shaking. He had a really sad story as to why he had been drinking that heavily, and I must agree that drinking makes it really easy to not face reality.
Alcoholics are probably the hardest people to approach for a while after they quit drinking. I was in rehab with crack heads, heroin addicts, only one tweeker, and a handful of alcoholics, and the alcoholics were the only ones that I avoided. They were the only ones that seemed to get kicked out of the place too, since they would snap and start breaking windows, no joke. The crack heads were always going on about finding god, and the junkies just liked talking about drugs.
Alcoholics are probably the hardest people to approach for a while after they quit drinking. I was in rehab with crack heads, heroin addicts, only one tweeker, and a handful of alcoholics, and the alcoholics were the only ones that I avoided. They were the only ones that seemed to get kicked out of the place too, since they would snap and start breaking windows, no joke. The crack heads were always going on about finding god, and the junkies just liked talking about drugs.
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