Chuck B. - Sober 13 Years

Think back: If you had lost your eyesight—went blind—would you have stopped drinking? If an alcohol-induced stroke then paralyzed half your body, would you have stopped then? And, if, while being both blind and paralyzed, you had alcoholic seizures, would that been enough to give up drinking?      My guest, Chuck B., kept drinking through blindness, paralysis, seizures and lasting pain. The powerful disease of alcoholism had prevailed over all of the medical reasons for quitting, providing its own perverse justification for continued drinking amidst all Chuck’s problems. Finally, in the fall of 2007, facing certain demise, Chuck had had enough...