Thoughts—Alcohol Abuse	
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Positively Negative	
We drank for joy and became miserable.	
We drank for sociability
and became argumentative.
We drank for sophistication
and became obnoxious.	
We drank for friendship and became enemies.	
We drank to help us sleep
and awakened exhausted.	
We drank to gain strength, and it made us weaker.
We drank for exhilaration and ended up depressed.	
We drank for "medical reasons"
and acquired health problems.
We drank to help us calm down
and ended up with the shakes.
We drank to get more confidence	
and became afraid.	
We drank to make conversation flow more easily, 
and the words came out slurred and incoherent.	
We drank to diminish our problems	
and saw them multiply.
We drank to feel heavenly
and ended up feeling like hell.	
—Author Unknown	
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, 
then the drink takes you. — John O'Sullivan
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a 
man mistake words for thoughts.     —  Sam Johnson
Though I look old; yet I am strong and lusty.  For 
in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious 
liquors in my blood.   — Shakespeare
Nothing more like a fool than a drunken man.   
    —Benjamin Franklin
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their 
mouths to steal away their brains!  That we should 
with job, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform 
ourselves into beasts.   —Shakespeare
Alcohol produces artificial happiness, artificial 
courage, artificial gaiety, artificial self-satisfaction, 
thus making life bearable for millions who would 
otherwise be unable to endure their condition.  To 
them alcohol is a blessing.  Unfortunately, as it 
acts by destroying conscience, self-control, and the 
normal functioning of the body, it produces crime, 
disease, and degradation.—	George Bernard Shaw	
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
    	—Seneca	
1. We drank:  a) For sociability and became?  
 b) For friendship and became?  c) For medical 	
reasons and acquired?  d) To get confidence and 
became?  e) To diminish problems and saw?	
2. Johnson:  What is a disadvantage of wine?
3. Franklin:  Who is a fool?
4. Shakespeare:  What does alcohol transform?
5. Shaw:  a) List 4 artificial things alcohol 
 produces.  b) List 3 things alcohol distroys.  
 c) List 3 things it finally produces. 
6. Seneca: What is drunkenness? 
7. With which quote do you agree?
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