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Drinksense - Charity providing counselling, information and support for people with alcohol-related problems, their carers and families. Based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
Alcohol Concern - National voluntary agency and a UK charity. Small amount of online information provided.
Portman Group - Organisation formed by a group of drinks manufacturers, with the purpose of promoting sensible drinking and avoiding alcohol misuse.
Institute of Alcohol Studies - Organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance. Provides a wide range of fact sheets about the use of alcohol.
How to Find Alcoholics Anonymous - Personal site with information about local branches of Alcoholics Anonymous in the UK.
Medical Council on Alcoholism - A UK charity providing education to medical and allied professions about the effects of alcohol upon health.
Alcohol and Alcoholism - Journal published by th Medical Council on Alcoholism. Summaries and full text articles available online.
Alcohol Problems Advisory Service - Offer advice and counselling on alcohol and other drug misuse as well as a wide range of other services. FAQ and information on the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory.
Alcohol Education and Research Council - Administers the Alcohol Education and Research Fund, which finances projects within the UK for education and research and to help those with drinking problems. Provides information on the AERC, its activities and details of how to apply for grants.
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(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alcohol There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Alcohol The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Alcohol English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Alcohol If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Alcohol Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Alcohol Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Alcohol To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Alcohol Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Alcohol Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 Alcohol "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Alcohol There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Alcohol Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Alcohol We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Alcohol Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Alcohol In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Alcohol Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Alcohol "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Alcohol Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Alcohol And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Alcohol Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Alcohol
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