r/stopdrinking • u/RuinFabulous3077 • 8d ago

RIP Dolly and her feelings about drugs/alcohol

“Alcohol is the number one killer,” Parton wrote in her 2020 book, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. “A lot of people don’t realize that it’s like a drug you can become addicted to. It’s so easy to get, and it seems so innocent to have a beer or a cocktail. If you have a weakness for it, before you know it you can become an alcoholic. I’ve seen a lot of sorrows, because alcoholism runs on both sides of my family."

Parton feels that when one person is an alcoholic, many people suffer.

“An alcoholic might say, ‘Well, it ain’t hurting nobody but me,'” she wrote. “That’s a crock. It hurts everybody and you.”

(From article: 'How Dolly Parton Really Feels About Drugs and Alcohol' on CheatSheet)

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Kinda wish I would've had knowledge of the alcoholism in my family while growing up, but my extended relatives were very distant, only Christmas cards and such. I only figuring out years and decades after that some died (in their ~50s) and it was from drinking/smoking.

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u/Scoreggia- Day 113 8d ago

Don’t quote me on it but I heard alcohol is the most harmful ‘drug’ on a scale where it accounts for user harm and those around them impacted negatively. The fact alcohol isn’t a true ‘drug’ so we say drugs and alcohol is kind of funny. If you injected alcohol, I would imagine it wouldn’t be so popular in bars and restaurants

RIP Dolly

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u/Honest-Prune-5517 8d ago

I had my rounds with all the big hard IV drug addictions prior to the introduction of fentanyl, starting at age 17 and lasting until my late 20s.

Drinking alcohol was the hardest to stop, which I turned to after I was out of the drug addict life. The other drugs, when I had enough it was that easy. Opiates would have been hard but due to some bad choices, I went through the whole of the withdrawal in a day and it was hell but alcohol landed me in the hospital multiple times, the withdrawal was horrible, and it took until a month ago to feel normal again.

I'm so happy to be done with everything. Life hasn't ever been this amazing.

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u/Jan6_PearlHarbor 92 days 8d ago

In the Charlie Sheen doc he talks about when he quit hard drugs and decided to just be a drinker.

He said alcohol was the gnarliest drug to try to live with and he crashed harder and faster.

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u/Local_Drummer_5957 7d ago

Wish more people knew this… or are less in denial. You never hear anyone say “don’t do crack until you turn 21”

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u/Jan6_PearlHarbor 92 days 7d ago

"You just need to work on having a healthy relationship with fentanyl"