It has been brought up before, for sure. The question is, would you give Bill Wilson his last drink request?
I would have gave him the juice and joined him if he asked, even though I hate whiskey. Why deny a dying person their last request?
lw
I don't know this story. But didn't Bill take acid with Humphrey Osmond?
bill w also tried a belladonna-alkaloid drug-induced coma in attempt to beat his alcohol addiction...
funny how AA doesn't much talk about acid trips & datura delerium as ways to approach beating the booze habit, hehheh...
(or pot, or peyote, either...)
Because AAA recognizes those compounds you suggested as drugs also, which alcohol is to the alcoholic in treatment. Thats why NA (Narcotics Anonymous).
I worked for a year in an AAA Program and I do not even drink. I have maybe 6 beers a year since the early 1960s when I was in the Arny I drank a lot, but not enough to become an alcoholic. I only drank because in the military if you do not then you are considered a sissy. I never liked the taste of alcohol or even drinking that much liquid in a short period of time. Not even that much soda pop or water or juice as I use to see people down pitcher after pitcher and their appetite increased over the years to more and more and more.
boomer2
LOL We dropped AAA the day we needed them to come out and be of assistance but they were too busy to help.
one tow over the line,
sweet jesus,
one tow over the line.....
lw
You mean it's not AAA?
No wonder those girls at the travel agency kicked me out after
spilling my guts of a crazy troubled youth, while smoking 2 packs
of ciggs. :wink:
@JRL- //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_W. says -
QuoteIn the 1950s Wilson experimented with LSD in medically supervised experiments with Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley. With Wilson's invitation his wife Lois, Father Dowling, and Nell Wing also participated in experimentation of this drug. Later Wilson wrote to Carl Jung, praising the results and recommending it as validation of Jung's spiritual experience.
Yeah I think anyone on their dying bed should get what they want (substance-wise).
Kemp I'll keep that in mind, you might be getting a call when the time comes!
Interestingly about my job was my observation of alcoholic people. I noticed that they did not like drug users in general. Yet most of those who did drugs, also loved alcohol.
I also noticed that the sober they became, the tighter their attitudes others grew along with their egos of being better than the other person.
I thought they were more dangerous sober than drunk.
I had to drive them to and from about four meetings a day and I had to live on the premises with only one day off a week. Took them to their shrink appointments. Had 24 in house clients from 16 to 64.
I was paid a salary and room and board, but i had to sit at the meetings and here the anonymous crap come out of their mouths.
While the word anonymous stands for anonymous, everyone there knew each other and knew everyone who went to the meetings.
We also had, at times, anywhere form four to six narcotics addicts, coke, crack etc. The majority of those in attendance were on temporary release form the Hawaiian Prison on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island.
Most were playing games just to stay out of prison, every month, at least three were returned to prison for having dirty U A's.
boomer2
About acid for therapy, it works on some and others just go back to drink and drink again.
I understand their pain, but only they can help their selves.
My higher power is a shroom and ganja.