The 'Unacceptable'

By the time I started to dry out, I'd been at it for thirty-seven years. It was a case of being "sick and tired of being sick and tired." By the end, I was a real throw-up drunk. Getting high on only what I could consume in three or four days' drinking was almost impossible, or so it seemed to me--drunk, yes; high, no! Never could I get enough.