Female Alcoholics: Their Secret Lives

wellness.com:

The numbers are troubling: An estimated 17.6 million adults in the USA are either alcoholics or have alcohol problems, according to the National Institutes of Health. By some estimates, one-third of alcoholics are women. Yet if you were to ask a woman's friends and family if she has a drinking problem, they might very well say no.

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Comments

[Halsey]

so many sweater drawers, cans of food rarely used, a big bottle of vodka can be hidden in so many places...that movie 'when a man loves a woman"...at least showed the horror of being a mother/alcoholic. ahh...and the delivery people...and you reach the point you don't care of the same delivery guy sees you sink further and further while on a major binge...oh..the the PHONECALLS..people..a BIG sign..is if you get many, almost manic phonecalls at odd hours to talk and talk... We all threw in the towel with patti..so sick of her lies...her alcholism took many years to become full blown..but the signs were always there..ONE glass of wine could make her weepy..or very horney...we all laughed "there goes patti"... 2 years ago. Patti, bright, beautiful, 54 fell into a coma, bloated and green..her cats near death from starvation by the time she was found...she died..from fricking vodka (wine loses it's punch eventually)... If you've never felt the magic place vodka can take you...you've nothing to add to this topic.. hitting bottom (if you live that long)..is needed...giving up..standing up in a crowd of strangers and saying "my name is...and I'm an alcoholic"...the best step you'll ever take..

[pachapoppa]

HPs photo choice really doesn't match the article at all, and makes it looks like HP sees the alcoholic mothers described in the actual article as rousing good-time girls. Yuck.

[DFL]

She's a party girl!