My family’s drunkenness was so unbelievably sad, my college boyfriend wrote a Twilight Zone episode about my dad called Kentucky Rye. In the show, the main character kills someone while driving drunk and is punished by spending the afterlife inside the prison of his own tavern.
The number of people addicted to alcohol in the United States is 14 times more than those addicted to opioids. More than twice as many people die annually from excessive drinking than from opioids.
Their behavior is accepted, and maybe even expected, in our culture. The United States ranks fifth in countries with the highest rate of alcohol use disorder behind Latvia, Belarus, Russia and Hungary.
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