My first job in yachting was as a deckhand back in the summer of 2005. I was twenty-one and had taken the summer job before heading back to
Scotland for my final year at Uni. Even though the 53-metre motor yacht was a ‘dry ship’ for the lower-tier crew, the Chief Engineer, First Mate and Captain always found time for a drink in the evening.
I remember many nights in Puerto Banus when the First Mate came back completely inebriated on several bottles of white wine (because it was cheaper than spirits and got him drunk faster than beer). Crosseyed, he’d hurl abuse at me whilst I was on gangway watch. Then he’d disappear off to his cabin only to recall none of our interactions the following day.
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This January, I would have been 15 years sober. In 2006, after 24 years of drinking addictively, I crawled metaphorically into a meeting of recovering alcoholics, got with the abstinence-based recovery programme, and never looked back.
the other is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. if you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drug water and almost always kill itself quickly. there is the story. tucker: the rat hitting cocaine bar. famous experiment. exactly. in the 1970s, an amaze progress fes somewhere professor i got to know well looked at the experiment and said hang on. we put the rat alone in an empty cage where it has nothing to make life meaningful for rats. all it has is the drugs. what would happen if we did it differently? he built a cage he called rat park. it s heaven for rats. lots of friends, they have a lot of sex and a lot of cheese, colored balls and it makes life meaningful for rats. they have both waters and they try both. the fascinating thing in rat park, when deeper needs are met, they don t like the