Tides are Ebbing and Flowing: Help Alcoholics or Imprison Them

Alcoholism is a disease that robs men and women of security, safety, and dignity.  It is a horrible painful life for alcoholics because he or she gradually loses family, friends, home, and freedom.  This is because the disease is misunderstood.

We all know someone who is an alcoholic.   When he or she gets to the drunk state, the main thing anyone around the drunk wants is to remove the drunk.  A drunk person is rarely perceived as a human being.  Types of drunks vary from completely insane to idiot savant.

I never waste time on a drunk.  The only thing to do is remove them from the public and keep them separated until sober.   But not removed and placed into the criminal prison system -- in that system these basically good and decent men and women sober up, yes, but their first taste of longterm sobriety is spent in a prison cell and not in their homes with families.

Tides are Ebbing and Flowing: Help Alcoholics or Imprison Them