I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.
I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.
Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.
Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.
My mother is still battling alcoholism.
I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.
While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.
