For a good share of us, our will to LIVE is even stronger than our will to USE. None of us wants to die. When our using, whether it's booze or drugs, gets to the poing where our very life is endangered, we DO start screaming for help!

Some of us don't even wait that long. We see what's coming before that, so we go for help sooner. For me, I knew that after 20 years of heavy drinking that I couldn't go on much longer or my liver/kidneys would just plain stop working! Plus it was pointed out to me what a horrible mother I was -- so it was time to stop.

But as I said, my will to live came first. And I think that's true with most addicts/alcoholics. God bless! Hugs, Lee