re: A guy told me that before he stopped drinking, he was killing a fifth of Jack a day.

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I was drinking a bottle of vodka per day. Developed pancreatitis, kept drinking, became septic and spent five days on a ventilator and additional 1.5 weeks in the hospital and had hallucinations for three days. Wife was told I had less than a 10% chance of surviving. Believe it or not, I started drinking again. Ended up back in the hospital with pancreatitis. Finally admitted I was an alcoholic and got help. It nearly destroyed my family and should have killed me. Two options for alcoholics, die or get sober. If you think you have a problem, get help, you will not regret it

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Four stages of chronic alcoholism:
1) Shakes
2) Seizures
3) Hallucinations
4) Delirium Tremens

All are bad but a living hell on earth are # 3 and 4 above.