Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

Question by cafeplanete: How to start an new alcoholic beverage company in Canada?
I would like to try and bottle a fancy alcoholic beverage I have created. I want to know what kind of a legal applications I must go through, or what governing bodies I must make applications with. Does anyone have a clue, can anyone point me in the right direction?

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Answer by Spartan316
you could try the service canada website. it has a lot of info from the gov’t of canada. or try your provincial website as liquor control is the responsibility of the provinces.

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Question by annie lk: How can I start over after going through inpatient alcohol rehabilitation?
All the friends I have are those that are in rehab, and all the friends I had before I entered that place were my alcoholic friends. They’ve been trying to get in touch with me but I feel that it would only do me worse rather than good since I might be tempted to drink alcoholic beverages again. I don’t want to be friendless, though. What can I do?

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Answer by John P
You have made a good decision in not going back out with your old friends.

The only solution that I have seen work for the long term is to join a 12 step program specifically for you AA.

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Question by Amber: How many alcoholic drinks do you limit yourself to when you just start dating someone?
I’m not tiny and I am a bit overweight. I don’t want to drink too much. Does it look wrong to have three alcoholic drinks on a second date? Women: do you usually get slightly tipsy from three drinks? I drink super fast & love alcohol, but mainly on dates, to loosen up, but not to get drunk, just for a buzz. Thx.

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Answer by revenge
if the date is ugly, then i drink 3. if he’s cute, then i sip on one.

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Question by Jim P: I want to start a transition home for people coming out of treatment centers for drugs and alcohol?

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Answer by anonymous
Good for you! What’s the question?

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Question by Shyanne: im setting up an argumentative essay on why alcoholism should be consider an disease i don’ t know how 2 start
I trying to find out what should be my 3 major points. Im not traditional college student im 44 years old and this is becoming very frustrating

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Answer by Short3Gears
Good luck… you’d be better off arguing that it is NOT a disease. It is (IMHO) an addiction like drugs and cigarrettes and food…
It runs in the family – that is one excuse for calling it a disease… but it is more monkey see monkey do and lack of will power…

30 year alcoholic 1 years dry and happy about it… no meds, no AA, just motivation… Motivation does not cure disease… People that quit drinking… just that… they quit… you can’t quit a disease. AA is a good thing for many – it helps them quit with support and helps with motivation – it does not CURE anything physical and a disease is physical – even a mental disease has physical causes… alcoholism does not – unless you find proof and prove me wrong… there is no proof that I am aware of and I have studied it while trying to quit myself…

As for the other posters’ responses so far, you can NOT call the resulting sickness and DT’s part of the “disease” of alcoholism… they are the after effect – not the original problem of drinking tooo much.

Point #1: it is an addiction. Like cigaretts and drugs and food. So far I have never heard anyone say smoking tobacco is a disease.
Point #2: It runs in the family. Daddy drinks, son drinks. Or it ’skips’ a generation – Granpa died an alcoholic, daddy over compensated and did not drink, and the next generation went overboard not learning how to drink proper from daddy (ok, I admit that is a long shot explanation
Point #3: People QUIT drinking. Diseases can not be ‘quit’.
Point #4: Detox, meds to combat drinking, therapy, AA, liver failure, brain damage ARE ALL causes of over drinking. They ARE NOT the cause of drinking (alcoholism). – smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease – is smoking a disease…. ?? and people also quit smoking… etc etc etc…

ps. I sound angry about this so called alcoholic ‘Disease’ because I am angry. I made it through computer systems engineering while being an alcoholic. I paid for my own schooling. I tried AA. There were other alcoholics in AA ONLY because they had to register going – Why??? Because they filed with Massachusetts as ALCOHOLICS and GOT FEE TUITION, FEES, and ROOM and BOARD under the guise of having a DISABILITY – DISEASE – ALCOHOLISM… I call that pure BS… I made it on my own, they could have too… and I didn’t quit drinking till 10 years later… (not sure when/if they did… but they said they were in AA and NOT drinking… but STILL had the “disability”!!!!

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