Yeah, I'm over totally him, how do I know? http://ping.fm/4RqX0

Sharing my post on getting older and wiser http://ping.fm/pmYrc

Sharing "If Only" about the lies we tell ourselves - http://ping.fm/65rvB

sharing http://ping.fm/L7EAA - I'm a dog lover and this tickles my funny bone.

hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Sunday, it's sunny and cold here in Tennessee.

Sharing how I started down the path of divorce from my alcoholic: http://ping.fm/YazIi

wow, that was 140 characters exactly and I didn't even try. Maybe I should whine more often!

Another question that I will never find the answer: I love my Jawbone but when are they going to make an ear piece that doesn't hurt my ear?

If you think this might help someone dealing with alcoholism, please pass it along: http://ping.fm/zE2RH

My newest post is called Dating Myself: http://ping.fm/NOnop about living with an alcoholic

Sharing: "Pain and Risk" in dating - http://ping.fm/YdH98

Morning - I just finished a post about online dating math. http://hopemaybe.com/?p=180. Hope you enjoy.

I'm not sure this is gonna work - my kid just told me his girlfriend is moving in but the two roommates are staying.

Morning, I posted a birthday greeting to a friend - 1 year of sobriety. I'm so proud - she's so strong.

Morning, I posted a birthday greeting to a friend - 1 year of sobriety. http://hopemaybe.com/?p=173

Finished my post. I decided to put myself inside the mind of an alcoholic to gain insight. http://hopemaybe.com/?p=166

Great day. Did a couple legs of a transport and helped a cute dog get to her forever home in NY. Working on a blog post.

My latest blog post is about the pain of watching an alcoholic destroy himself, http://hopemaybe.com/?p=134

For those who can’t control alcohol, the outlook is bleak.

Alcohol Statistics

Each year, a typical young person in the United States is inundated with more than 1,000 commercials for beer and wine coolers and several thousand fictional drinking incidents on television.

Alcohol is involved in 50% of all driving fatalities.

In the United States, every 30 minutes someone is killed in an alcohol related traffic accident.

Over 15 million Americans are dependent on alcohol. 500,000 are between the age of 9 and 12.

Each year the liquor industry spends almost $2 billion dollars on advertising and encouraging the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Americans spend over $90 billion dollars total on alcohol each year.

Each year students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol, more then they spend on soft drinks, tea, milk, juice, coffee, or books combined.

The highest percentage of heavy drinkers (12.2%) is found among unemployed adults between the age of 26 to 34

Up to 40% of all industrial fatalities and 47% of industrial injuries can be linked to alcohol consumption and alcoholism.

43% of Americans have been exposed to alcoholism in their families.

Drunk driving is proving to be even deadlier then what we previously know. The latest death statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), using a new method of calculation show that 17,488 people where killed in alcohol related traffic accidents last year. This report represents nearly 800 more people where killed than the previous year.

Alcohol is the number 1 drug problem in America.

Statistics from drug-statistics.com

And the odds of beating alcoholism are very slim. Some do, but the vast majority of alcoholics relapse over and over. Once in you are almost doomed. I think a lot of that has to do with the pervasiveness of alcohol. It’s everywhere and is an acceptable commodity. The alcoholic beverage industry markets it as sexy and the lubricant of our social system. You rarely see the consequences of alcoholism in the media. Maybe an occasional alcoholic in the movies or a docudrama on drunk driving. Why do we need to drink (or use drugs) as a society? The history of alcohol and drug abuse goes back to caveman days. Beer jugs were found dating to the Stone Age. There will never be one miraculous treatment remedy that works for everyone and is 100% effective. There aren’t any answers. We just have to keep trying.