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“Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you’re both aware and unaware of it almost all the time; all you know is you’d die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It’s a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming”
The Muslim Emperor Jahangir, the fourth ruler of the Mughal Empire, held an interesting contradiction. He was open about his own struggles with opium and alcohol dependence, leading to his wife Empress Nur Jahan running much of the empire while he was incapacitated. Both of his brothers also struggled with alcohol and opium. At the same time, he was adamant about banning the sale of drugs,…
Fun fact, early Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous groups referred to themselves as the “Augustine Fellowship” because of how earnestly they saw themselves in Augustine’s Confessions.
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