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.

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A recent article says a record executive ‘tricked’ Amy Winehouse into drug rehab. I would hardly call what he did trickery. He had a marketing person in the company spend two days gathering all the news stories written about Amy and then laid everything out in his office, called Amy in and showed them to her, then told her to tell him she doesn’t have a drug problem. Obviously, it was exactly what she needed because she’s finally in drug rehab and getting the help she needs.

Did he do the right thing? Of course. I have no idea why anyone would see that as tricking her. She’s already proven that she was incapable of making the right decision since her judgement is so clouded by drugs and alcohol - but being confronted with articles from all over the world, and they often contain pictures, there’s no way that she could do anything other than see that she has a problem.

And that’s what she did. I hope she makes it, and I hope that when she gets out of drug rehab she doesn’t go back into the same life she left behind her.

What her record producer did was care enough to make sure she got help. He created enough of an impact to pull it off. If someone you know needs help with drug addiction, remember that you can’t just wait for them to do the right thing - you need to help them get into drug rehab so they can get out of danger and turn their life around.

If you need help doing that, you can call Drug Rehab Referral about intervention. It’s not always easy for a family member to convince the person to do something about their drug problem - an interventionist is a pro, has usually been there himself, and can help.

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