A late friend was a classic alcoholic but died young due to his smoking a couple of packs a day. As an only child, if he had his demons under control, he would have inherited a house in the Kingsway, a waterfront cottage, thriving small business with an owned building, and some investments. His dad saw where the son was headed and the estate went different ways.
His marriage (fortunately no kids) failed. Bender, she leaves, he straightens up, she comes back and he starts drinking again. She only went through the revolving door three times. I heard that she remarried and did well.
Fortunately his DUI car crashes were only property damage.
He spent his last years in a brand new subsidized apartment near the beach in Burlington. He was the first occupant and the place was a pigsty a month after he moved in. AA helped periodically but his brain was wired to self destruct.
This was back when addictions were sins not diseases. Now everything is a disease or condition and the working stiffs have to pay for the problems as they also face inflation, stupid real estate, foreign takeovers, government mismanagement etc.
There are very few people on the planet that had it made, never a problem. Somehow we got through it. If anyone can figure out the sequencing of the problem of addiction please step up. The problem is getting worse.
Nazi Germany had a solution for people that didn't fit the mold but the world didn't like it.
