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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Acknowledgements

ix

 

Introductions

xi

Chapter 1

Realization

page 1

Chapter 2

You’re Different When You Drink

page 5

Chapter 3

How Alcohol Makes You Drunk

page 8

Chapter 4

My Life With the Bottle, Part 1

page 12

Chapter 5

For Teens and Young Adults

page 23

Chapter 6

We Are Killing Our Children

page 28

Chapter 7

Alcohol and Your Health: The Great Hoax

page 37

Chapter 8

Dying From Chronic Alcohol Poisoning

page 63

Chapter 9

Dying of Acute Alcohol Poisoning

page 69

Chapter 10

 Lesser Known Health Problems Due To Alcohol

page 74

Chapter 11

Unsuspected Pregnancy Begets Tragedy

page 77

Chapter 12

My Life With the Bottle, Part 2

page 82

Chapter 13

Doctors Make Great Alcoholics and Drug Addicts

page 89

Chapter 14

Scott

page 100

Chapter 15

Larry, the Sarcastic Drunk

page 107

Chapter 16

Marc, the Mean Drunk

page 113

Chapter 17

Rex Alan Krebs: Alcohol Creates Some Monsters

page 116

Chapter 18

 I Have an Excuse

page 120

Chapter 19

Alcohol Will Make You Crazy

 page 123

Chapter 20

See Rick Drink and Understand Why

page 128

Chapter 21

Bud, the Alcoholic College Professor

page 132

Chapter 22

Who’s Fooling Who? Concealing the Problem

page 140

Chapter 23

Jack McDougall: The Drunk in the Corporate Boardroom

page 146

Chapter 24

Ernest Hemingway: The Man’s Man & the Drunk’s Drunk

page 151

Chapter 25

Pride Cometh Before the Drink

page 154

Chapter 26

He Had It All Except Control of His Drinking

page 157

Chapter 27

The Trail Ride

page 159

Chapter 28

The Holiday Party

page 165

Chapter 29

Lessons From the Liberty Tattoo Clinic

page 168

Chapter 30

When Your Luck Runs Out: DUI

page 174

Chapter 31

Observations of a Highway Patrol Officer

page 181

Chapter 32

Enabling

page 185

Chapter 33

Are You or Is Someone You Love an Alcoholic?

page 190

Chapter 34

Free at Last: How I Got Sober and How It Changed My Life

page 202

Chapter 35

Why Should You Quit?

page 206

Works Cited

 

page 209

Appendix 1

 

page 211

Appendix 2

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

page 215

The Book

An Uncommon Drunk
By Jeff Herten, M.D.
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Excerpts

dataicon Chapter 3 How Alcohol Makes You Drunk

dataicon Chapter 6 We Are Killing Our Children

dataicon Chapter 7  Alcohol and Your Health: The Great Hoax

dataicon Chapter 8 Dying From Chronic Alcohol Poisoning

dataicon Chapter 9 Dying of Acute Alcohol Poisoning

dataicon Chapter 33 Are You or Is Someone You Love an Alcoholic?

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