Sentences with phrase «long as an alcoholic»

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Alcoholic beverages could last much longer, since the alcohol levels would kill insect eggs and larvae as well as germs.

Just like someone who has a predisposition to be an alcoholic, as long as they don't become drunk no problem.

The only thing I know for sure is that it does not matter what you believe, so long as you keep close to other sober alcoholics..

As to alcoholics, he says: «The broad interpretation that best fits the evidence is that heavy drinkers are people for whom drinking has become a central activity in their way of life... for the long - term heavy drinker, life has come to center on drinking — life [that] is pervaded by a preoccupation with drinking, shaped and driven by the quest for drink, drinking situations, and drinking friends» (p. 100).

Why is a person who once drank excessively then quits or kicks the habit, one who no longer desires to get intoxicated still referred to as an alcoholic?

Such interventions may prevent immediate consequences such as loss of a job, but the long - range results are usually negative in that they deprive the alcoholic of his right to experience the pain which might bring him to the point of openness to help.

It is possible that some irreversible change in biochemistry gives the alcoholic a sensitivity or «allergy» (as AA has long claimed) to alcohol, so that one drink sets off a chain reaction leading inevitably to a drunk.

The» Higher Power» required to begin the road to recovery can be anything or anyone as long as practicing Alcoholics admit that they are weaker than their addiction and also willing to acknowledge they can't stop themselves.

There is no longer an attempt to support the alcoholic in his roles as husband and father.

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Maybe it doesn't matter which parent walks away as long as it's done for the kids» benefit, because staying would subject them to bad parental behaviors; children who grow up with an alcoholic or mentally ill parent often suffer.

In fact, it is safe to enjoy alcoholic beverages in moderation while breastfeeding, as long as it is done responsibly.

A glass of wine has a pretty low calorie count compared to other alcoholic beverages, so it is definitely a good choice of drink to go with meals or to order on a night out — as long as it doesn't turn into more than a few glasses.

People with alcoholic liver disease (cirrhosis) commonly develop man boobs because their liver can no longer do its job of breaking down estrogens as effectively.

As a one - time alcoholic, I know firsthand that the only way you can kill a weed is at root, and that means going clean long enough to kill your metabolic syndrome once and for all.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL About Blog The Right Place mission is to support recovering drug addicts and alcoholics as they progress through detoxification and into life - long recovery, utilizing medicinal and medical supervision, individual and group therapies, and assuring a safe, comfortable environment in which to reclaim their lives.

As the insistently «Mrs.» Travers shoots down the reasonable suggestions of Disney's long - suffering writer and composers, we discover that many of the details she cherishes in Mary Poppins resonate with her own experience growing up with her loving, but alcoholic father (Colin Farrell) in Allora, a remote town in Australia.

Ben (Kevin Kline) is no longer an alcoholic, and Elena (Joan Allen), whose last actions in the book are shockingly cruel, comes off as more sinned against than sinning.

In an interview Rudolph helpfully singled out an Altman film he worked on as assistant director, The Long Goodbye — a much better film, one that can accommodate in its gallery of gargoyles a tragic figure like Sterling Hayden's alcoholic novelist as well as a nightmarishly comic one like Mark Rydell's Jewish gangster.

And it raised an uncomfortable question: Could the allegations from Farrow, her brother Ronan Farrow and her mother Mia Farrow, have the potential to derail Blanchett's chances at adding an Oscar to the long list of awards she's received for her performance as a desperate, pill - popping alcoholic in Allen's film?

Peter knows capturing Big Foot on camera is the coup he needs to save the show, so he takes on Calhoun's niece, Cheryl (Ashley Scott), as an assistant, hires an alcoholic auto mechanic (Kevin Hefferman) to serve as animal handler, replaces Milas — who claims he's too old to make the journey — with his chronically stoned nephew, Junior (Justin Long), and points the «Strange Wilderness» RV south.

Their parents are dead and Joe's wife is long gone, an alcoholic who has disappeared from his life — and so Lee is named guardian for his nephew, Patrick (newcomer Lucas Hedges), even as he must make the arrangements for Joe's funeral.

Features an all - star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol - packin» alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long - suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance) as his nymphomaniac sister.

Tate Liverpool This revolutionary new exhibition is proof that Pollock's life after 1950 was not, as has previously been painted, just one long alcoholic crisis

Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom — Ray and Liz, as they have come to be intimately known — were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late -»90s exhibition «Sensation» and drew crowds again this fall at Frieze, which hosted a presentation peering back to the no - longer - Young British Artist's first solo show.

I have been an alcoholic for as long as I can remember, including while I was starting up my law practice the first time around.

Driving a car could be an amazing experience, so long as a number of fundamental safety guidelines are adopted and clearly, the driver did not taken alcoholic drinks prior to driving.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL About Blog The Right Place mission is to support recovering drug addicts and alcoholics as they progress through detoxification and into life - long recovery, utilizing medicinal and medical supervision, individual and group therapies, and assuring a safe, comfortable environment in which to reclaim their lives.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7