Why the Alcoholic Cannot Make Deals With a Drug – Gene D.
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Calistoga, 1975. A bar stool, a double shot of V.O., and a clock that doesn't stop ticking. Gene D. strips away the facade of "emotional problems" and "misguided youth," calling the drink what it is: a narcotic that takes away your marbles. He pits the alcoholic against the social drinker, noting that while a normal person spends seventeen minutes playing with an olive in a martini, the alcoholic gulps it down in a rush to "un-relax."
He describes the insanity of the fourth drink—the point where the goal shifts from relief to a spiral of resentment, imagining a wife's cold porkchops and a missed bus. Gene D. warns against the "greatest obsession": the delusion that one can eventually control the drug. He argues that you cannot make deals with a narcotic. You cannot negotiate with a chemical that smashes your reasoning. The only solution is the hard truth of never putting another drop in your mouth, supported by a Higher Power and the wreckage of others.
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