Eight Years Ago Today, I Drank My Last Drink

“Functional” Alcoholism Is the Most Dangerous State I’ve Ever Lived In.

When I was young, I swore off drugs and alcohol because I was told that they had destroyed my family. I was told how drugs were so powerful they made my mom abandon me. Normal stuff like that.

Those are, of course, lies — my mother left because my dad was an abusive, twisted, alcoholic fuck.

When I got older I found out the truth of the matter. My family was peopled with horrible…