Teenage AlcoholismI was well on my way down the road by the agesof 17 and 18 to Teenage Alcoholism. How could this have happened, ( I think back now)? How could I have become a Teenage Aloholic? I got a good head start with my first drink at age 12 or 13. By the time I was a Senior in High School and 18 years old I had been drinking for a good ( 5 ) FIVE Years. I was 18 and I had five years of drinking behind me. It had gone from the sleep-overs and raiding te Alcohol cabinet of my friends with parents who kept "booze" in the house. To drinking almost everyday, buying at the liquor stores, drinking in certain bars my drinking friends and I knew would server us Alcohol. It was all funny at the time, " one big party." But I had no idea what lay ahead. What path I had put myself on, I was a train-wreck inslow motion and I did not even know it. | Teenage Alcholism, Teenage Alcoholic, Alcoholic Problems, Alcoholic Drinking, AA, Recovering Alcoholic, Binge Drinking, Alcoholic Help, Alcoholic Symptoms, Alcoholism. |
And the years since age 16 when I got my drivers license my drinking escalated. As I have metioned I had wheels and most of the local bars would server me and I knew all the Liquor stores that would sell Alcohol to me. From age 16 to age 18 I was on a full - fledged Alcoholic run. Drinking and drugging as much as possible, any time I could find or make the time to get drunk or get "high."
So now I was old enough to go to the Bars that would serve me. My friends and I knew where all of them were. Whether we were 18 yet or not it didn't matter, we were close enough. More and more liquor stores would sell beer and booze to me. And once I turned 18 as a High School Senior, I was legal to buy Alcohol in a liquor store or a bar.Once I was 18 an "legal", I was off and running, what was to stop me now? I had the family car when I needed it to make a run to the Liquor Store, or to a bar where I would meet up with my other hard drinking friends. Now at this point, I must sound like I was a total delinquint. But in reality I was living ( more or less ), two different lives. Still, I was drinking to get drunk and smoking marijuana to get stoned every chance I got.
I was still an "A" / "B" student in High School. I was still participating in High School sports. Would it shock you if I told you I was the starting Quarterback on the Football team? Well, I was, and I was damn good. Not an average player, my Sophomore year I was voted most valuable player on the team and won an award for my playing on the field. My Senior year the coaches considered me the best player on the team, although I will differ and give the note to one other player who played running back, this guy was stong, fearless and good. And by no means was he a "party guy" or a "stoner." He was a real jock and going to play football at the college level. A small college, but still he was a college level player, we had a few on the Football team. But the coaches still considered me the number one player. i was the Quarterback and I made the Offense go. I had "good looks," a girlfriend who was a knock-out, and I was Quaterback of the Football team. I was also a Teenage Alcoholic. I never played a game "high" on marijuana, but I went to practice stoned on marijuane many times. Whether the coaches knew, I don't know. It made me focus and play great in practice, or so I thought. I loved football practice. I loved being the QB, "big man on campus," in my grandious fantasy. While all the time I was drinking and drugging every chance that I possibly could.
I thought I was pretty "cool" back then. Its like "Glory Days" from Bruce Springsteen. I had it all in High School. As I have noted I was the football team's Quaterback. I was a good player. I had pretty good looks. I had a "hot" girlfriend. Not much to complain about ..... just that I was a living a double life and more and more, Alcohol and Marijauna were part of my daily routine. The great thing about Marijuana is it was easy to have a couple joints in your pocket, smoke for a few minutes and bang, you were high. Drinking was more of a process. That had to be done after school. You could get stoned at school, but not drunk. Getting drunk was an evening activity. You had to go buy the booze or beer or both and find a place to drink. And it was great, i had plenty of friends to drink with.
There is a quote I remember from a book written about Joe Namath, the great New York Jets Quarterback in the 1960's and early 1970's. He who won Super Bowl III, basically by himself, calling a great game, play by play in the huddle. He befuddled the heavily favored Baltimore Colts, running more than passing and out-thinking the coaching staff and players on the Colts team. He was my childhood favorite football idol, so of course I read everything I could about him and watched all his games as a young kid. I even went to the "Joe Namath Football Camp," won an award and met him and shook his hand. I was probably 11 or 12 years old. The camp was at Nichols College in Massachusetts. Joe wrote had his autobiography written in 1969 entitled, "I can't wait for Tomorrow,.... Because I get better looking Everyday." And in it there was a chapter entitled,
"I like my girls Blonde, and my Johnnie Walker Red."
This is a paragraph of a Namath biography writer: Mark Kriegel, "Super Bowl Super Hero.
"Namath’s appetite for alcohol was equally prodigious. In his quickie 1969 autobiography (modestly titled I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow … ’Cause I Get Better-Looking Every Day), Namath included a chapter called, “I Like My Girls Blonde and My Johnnie Walker Red.” He played with hangovers and sometimes had “a couple of Michelobs before practice.” The morning of the 1968 AFL championship game, Namath was spotted leaving a hotel, blonde in tow, at 8 a.m."
Even my early sports hero and idol was a drinker - a big drinker! That was my first football hero. Letting me know at an early age it was pretty cool to drink and get the girls.
On was on may way even way back then as a ten-year-old kid to laying the ground work in my head that when i could I would "Drink Booze.
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