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Getting sober is not the only answer to alcohol abuse or alcoholism. I say that because people think that as long as somebody isn’t drunk, they’re sober. The idea of a dry drunk is hard to get your hands around, but it’s the key point to understanding that just because somebody isn’t drunk or isn’t drinking, that doesn’t mean they are free from dependence on alcohol or free from their alcoholism.

An acquaintance of ours talked her husband into going in for treatment for his “drinking problem,” and he traveled half-way across the country to check into a Christian treatment facility. He was there for 30 days and the final bill for the treatment was in the neighborhood of $100,000.

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There is an old folk song that asks the question, “What do you do with a drunken sailor?” The answer was “Put him to bed until he’s sober.” Bed is probably the best place for someone who has had too much to drink, but when does that person become sober? The answer might surprise you.

We live in Wisconsin, where .08 is the limit for blood alcohol level. That limit does not necessarily mean that people are not impaired at lower levels. Half that limit or maybe less is all it takes. Let’s take a look at one scenario and see just what it takes to “sleep it off.”

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