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by braingenious 1180 days ago
My point is that people literally don’t “think twice” about things that they are addicted to. Price tends to change behavior in other ways, like maybe they’ll steal it if they can’t afford it.

Source: Over a decade clean. I personally watched a family member seize, fall, and fatally hit his head on the sidewalk. A close friend saw the same happen to his grandfather, though it was a coffee table not a sidewalk.

Both of them had a BAC of 0, so their deaths would not have been ruled alcohol-related even though they were both directly caused by acute alcohol withdrawal.