text: I am so glad to see an article like this. As a society, we completely romanticize alcohol and it's time we address it. I drank heavily for over a decade before I decided to face it head on. Alcohol poisons lives, whether we are prepared to admit it or not. We make all kinds of excuses for this poison to continue abusing it. It relaxes us, it makes us more interesting, it's our way of dealing with stress.....yeah right. It actually doesn't do any of these things. It's all an illusion. 
  
  If you have a problem with drinking and are having a hard time with it, read Allan Carr's book "Stop Drinking Now" and prepare to have all of your perceptions about the effects of alcohol and quitting alcohol changed for good. 
  
  Willpower doesn't work when it comes to quitting drinking. This is because you think you're giving up a friend, instead of your greatest enemy. Changing your perceptions about alcohol and the damage it's doing to your life changes everything. 
  
  Read the book!!