Alcoholism: How Drinking Affects Your Life Hendershot1
Casey Hendershot
Professor Amanda Anderson
English 151
14 October 2011
Alcoholism: How Drinking Affects Your Life
As Tyrone Patrick Fahey once said, “Let us be clear and concise on this point: Alcoholism is a
disease. We can never be cured of alcoholism, but we can arrest the disease and pull it up on its
tracks. There is no such thing as a cured alcoholic or an ex-alcoholic. They simply don’t exist …
the recovering alcoholic is only ever one drink away from relapse.” This quote shows that sheer
power that alcohol can have on a person life, and how much it can impact what they do on a
