She was 36 at the time and working as a physician liaison for a hospital system on the South Carolina coast, where she helped build relationships among doctors. Privately, she had struggled with heavy drinking since her early 20s, long believing that alcohol helped calm her anxieties. She understood that the yellowing of her eyes was evidence of jaundice. Even so, the prospect of being diagnosed with alcohol-related liver disease wasn’t her first concern.
“Honestly, the No. 1 fear for me was someone telling me I could never drink again,” said Adkins, who lives in Pawleys Island, a coastal town about 30 miles south of Myrtle Beach.
But the drinking had caught up with her: Within 48 hours of that moment in front of the rearview mirror, she was hospitalized, facing liver failure. “It was super fast,” Adkins said.
Historically, alcohol use disorder has disproportionately affected men. But recent dataopens in a new tab or window from the CDC on deaths from excessive drinking shows that […]
Our society is so sick that the occupants must anesthetize themselves from experiencing the diminished quality of their lives. If they use AI or video society will reward them, as their data can still be harvested, and they can continue to have their productive capacity used. For those using substances to numb themselves they, of course, must be punished for this. Generally, this punishment, in the past, has been restricted to communities of color. Given the growing problem, the authorities cannot continue to use the architecture of repression they have employed for minorities. The middle class Caucasian communities will not tolerate it. This is why the system was forced to modify its response for opiate use disorder. The repression would have been too great. It will be interesting to see how the authorities will move forward as the current system is unsustainable, and a lower quality of life is in the forecast for all except the extremely wealthy.