I Have An Alcoholic Brother

My brother and I are only a year and 10 months apart so we were like twins growing up.  We were always together like two peas in a pod.  Well there were times where we would fight like cats and dogs but we looked after each...

I have realized today that my brother has a drinking problem.   Last night he was admitted into the hospital for alcohol intoxication, his blood alcohol level was a 2.66.  He thinks it's a big joke and says well thats...

I used to think it was the most ridiculous thing in the world. He was 13 or 14 when I was born, so he's a lot older than I am. I remember when I was little he was always getting into a lot of problem with the law and...

It all started when my mum and dad said they were divorcing. He was 18 and would drink occasionaly with friends. Now, he is 19 and drinking everyday. I often wondered if he was being honest when he said he was just bored and doing it...

I think that I was around ten,
you were a teenager, you started drinking then.
It increased slowly year after year,
memories gone with each drink of beer.
I only remember the time you spent away from home,
In a drunken stupor you would...

Since my brother is fourteen years older, I lived at home while he was "grown up" living with his wife and kids. There was a good stretch of about two months where the phone would ring between 2am and 6am at least once a week...

Drowning yourself in a bottle, you’re thoughts disappearing with every drop into you’re throat. Seeing you’re soul vanish beneath my eyes as you’re so focused on everything and anything that has to do with booze...

My Brother has been drinking since he was 16, he is now 38, and he is a drunk, not nasty or angry just sad, depressed, lazy and  think the world owes him a favour
he had actually given up for a few months after the doctor told him...

My Brother is an Alcoholic. It's taken me a very long time to be able to actually admit it and to say it out loud. I am terrified. I have seen him decline in every possible way and he is only 44 years of age. He has let go of his...