Reply #10: whoa... now that's a bad case. [View All]

and BAC of .58?!?! that's clinical death for people, unless you have an ungodly level of tolerance -- which sounds like he does. unbelievable. if he ever quit cold turkey he'd die from the shock of withdrawal, i'm sure of it. there really is a potential for death from quitting cold turkey on alcohol, but for the more addicted of personalities. he sounds like he's on the far edge of the bell curve on that. whoo... his liver must be screaming, if not already dying.

i've always considered alcohol one of the harshest recreational drugs out there, up there with heroin and cocaine. it is a cruel master. if only he could have substituded this addiction for something "milder"... like quaaludes or valium or barbituates. gah, that's such a nasty addiction he has. i don't know if there's help for him at this point, and that perhaps is the saddest thing to say about this.

if someone had the spare money to get him into a clinic where they detox him and replace all his receptors, now choked with alcohol's addiction molecules, with a blocker, then maybe he might get some part of his life back. but it sounds like too much damage has been done.