Have you noticed that before alcohol destroys people (physically, mentally and financially) they have no desire to cut down, let alone quit? So they don’t. It’s only when they are at rock-bottom, when they have lost the support of family and friends, that they wish they could control their intake. But that also happens to be the time when they feel least able to do so, when they feel that they most need what they now regard as the only friend or crutch they have left.
