This is classic alcoholic binge drinking behavior. He was a full blown alcoholic in need of intervention. He is now a statistic. It is a shame. There are so many places to get help these days.
True enough. However, it happens to be a program of WANT, not need.
Unfortunately, they are all accessed on a voluntary basis.
(Just to be clear: yes, I am a firm advocate of involuntary help for addicts and the mentally ill.)
He sounds just like my brother who died at age 62 from many, many years of drinking. It’s sad....a waste of a life and yet with all the help and support out there....you have to want to become sober and stay that way. My brother had a million reasons why it was impossible to stay sober...he died years ago and yet I still cry for him and others who find it too difficult to stop drinking...........
“There are so many places to get help these days.”
True enough, but if the alcoholic doesn’t want help and will not work the programs, there is nothing you can do to help them. I have a family member(brother) that is hopeless and headed to the same place as Koppel’s son. We have tried to get him help hundreds of times and others have as well. It is also hard to commit someone now thanks to liberal groups influencing the law for the last decade. We managed to get him committed to a treatment center a few years ago and they kept him only 30 days. He was drinking the very next day.
My prayers for the Koppel family. It is a tragic story all too common in so many families.
Dad should have dragged him in to see Bill W.