Sentence examples for alcoholics from inspiring English sources

The common logic of alcohol addiction brings alcoholics together in work environments as much as it does social ones.

A Californian study of sex offenders who underwent "relapse prevention", counselling of the sort that alcoholics get from Alcoholics Anonymous, found that it was useless.

This sort of argument suggests that the issue of personal responsibility may be logically prior to determining whether alcoholism is a disease: alcoholism would be a disease because alcoholics cannot control their drinking.

It is generally assumed that if alcoholism is a disease, then alcoholics are less morally responsible for their actions directly connected with their drinking, and if it is not a disease, then they are morally responsible.

A failure to identify behaviours symptomatic with alcoholism delays treatment and increases the danger alcoholics pose to themselves and to others.

I am not talking about alcoholics – you wouldn't penalise people for addictions – but a doctor could easily make the distinction.

I know two people who were chronic alcoholics – bottle of gin for breakfast types – who hadn't drank for 13 and 11 years.

This is par for the course in the creative industries: the two best places for young people on the make in Hollywood to meet the players are bars and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.But celebrity can be an even more powerful drug than cocaine.

His "second life" started in 1977, when he gave up drinking with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Need either writer have so encumbered us with the detail of their wives' bodily failures?As to intent, Mr Kondracke's Milly was "a master of her universe", "a dynamo" who got him into Alcoholics Anonymous and off drink.

It's true, says Willoughby, who believes the traditional route to sobriety – Alcoholics Anonymous – is not always attractive for women.