Nice “Alcohol Abuse” Photos
Some cool alcohol abuse images:
WAKE UP CALL
Image by live w mcs
This is the last bad picture I am going to add to my site BUT it is an important one!
I never believed in drunk driving. Years ago, I remember seeing some kids drinking from a bottle while driving down a busy street. I had them pull over and read them the riot act. I frowned upon it big time!
But look at me years later! I went out with my son to shoot some pool in a public place early before anyone else was really there; my husband joined us after work. I was so tired of living in a bubble and it was great getting out. By the time we left I had a pretty good buzz going and should have never been behind the wheel. On the way home I slid off the road and into a ditch and into oncomming traffic and hit another car.
It could have been easily been much worse!!! I could have killed the other people in the car I hit, or for that matter killed my most precious gift ( my son )! I can still hear his Horrifying screaming and always will.
That was my wake-up call to never drink again. I Thank "GOD" no one was injured or killed.
I was taken to the hospital for a back injury and treated like dirt, (I was dirt)! Then off to jail for the night (not a good place for me being environmentally ill) and not a place I ever want to be again! The judge ordered me to go to a drug and alcohol abuse counseling group. The classes were several months later and I knew I would never drink again and thought that I didn’t need to be there. Acutally it is exactly where I needed to be.
I was still a victim in my mind of the whole nightmare and trauma I went through. Tom the director of the group and another counselor did a skit and portraying being a victim. Oh My God, it hit me like a ton of bricks to see how pathetic it appeared. I asked what the difference was between someone that thinks they are a victim and someone that truely is a victim? Tom said nothing is different? That was my eye opener to take back my life and to not let it control me anymore ((( Thank God ))) !!! I had lived with it for way to long and it was ruining my life.
For those of you out there that see me as being bad, well " I was bad " but not anymore. Being injured or traumatized from being in war or chemically injured or raped or whatever traumatized them, life can be very hard and we can turn to things that aren’t so pretty. We need help getting through it and dealing with it, it doesn’t go away on it’s own.
If you know someone out there having a tough time "HELP THEM FIND HELP SOMEHOW, IF YOU CAN" Please don’t ignore them that just makes it worse!
pre-show party, last night
Image by artolog
before the Van Morrison show last night, at O’Reilly’s Holy Grail on Polk Street.
In back of us are some excellent paintings, in the manner of stained glass windows, of 4 patron saints of alcohol abuse and the arts… And no, Van Morrison isn’t one of them.
I have clearly forgotten some of the names of the attendees, so if you know, leave a comment and help me out.
to see it in its orignal large size, go to farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2143823699_86b5df8060_o.jpg
Death on the Rocks
Image by MikeOliveri
52 Weeks #45
Decades of alcohol abuse killed someone in my family recently, and that’s more or less what inspired this image. It’s not hard to spot the pattern of addiction that runs in my family, and fortunately I’ve been able to dodge it so far.
The skull came from a bottle of hot sauce, and I keep it on a key chain. I actually dropped it in the glass, it wasn’t edited in later.
Hope it doesn’t come off as too preachy or heavy-handed, it was just an idea. :)