Odds by State

What are the actual odds that someone in your family, or someone you know, will end up addicted to drugs or alcohol?

Drug Rehab Referral | Our Views

Alcohol Addiction At It’s Worst - $1000 a Week, and Seven DUIs

July 16, 2008

One of the attractions of beer for someone who’s an addict is that it’s relatively cheap. But this guy in Australia doesn’t seem to care how much it costs. He’s a father of four, a construction worker, takes home $1440 a week, spends $150 on rent, $150 on buses and taxis, $50 on his phone and spends about $1000 a week on beer. That’s one serious alcohol addiction. How he manages to work is beyond me.

He was also just convicted of drunk driving for the seventh time. In one of the accidents he killed someone. His most recent arrest came when he was driving his motorcycle at 123 mph.

He has now allegedly gone cold turkey and is involved in an alcohol rehab program. Let’s hope he gets into a long-term residential program that can get down to the bottom of his addiction problem.

This is an unusual case, no doubt about it. Not many people spend that much money on beer every week. However, alcohol addiction is the most common addiction in the U.S. and it kills thousands every year. Most of those people die from accidents or by taking risks they wouldn’t take if they were sober.

If you know someone who needs alcohol rehab, contact Drug Rehab Referral. They can help you find a drug and alcohol rehab that will really work. They can also help you with intervention services if you can’t convince someone they need alcohol addiction help.

, , ,

Popularity: 11% [?]

2 Comments »

  1. There are many treatment centers available in country which only offer medication program and don’t contain any other type of recreational activities. They only provide medicines to their patients.
    http://www.addiction-treatments.com/

    Comment by pooja — August 6, 2008 @ 4:54 am

  2. Steroids virtually ended the careers and the lives of some great athletes. And yet in spite of all the warnings and the positive proof of harmful and even deadly side effects, steroid use continues at an alarming rate.
    ———–
    micheel
    alcoholism treatment

    Comment by micheelgeorge — August 13, 2008 @ 9:07 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment