I Like The Effect

"That alcohol is no real solution to nervous tension is shown when drinking is carried to its extreme limit.  But, whatever the final results may be, the initial effects are so satisfactory that the individual is tempted to seek this method over and over again for want of a better one, with full realization of the eventual suffering that he must endure."  Richard Peabody 1930

 "Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drink."  Dr. Wm Silkworth in The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous 1934

Don't tell me that our Program didn't get any help from people that came before.  

Don't tell me that the problem is anything but a chase to feel good, to feel better.

I didn't feel good, I didn't feel comfortable in my own skin.  Then I drank and I felt better.

A. B. C.  Easy as one, two, three.  Or simple as Doe Ray Me.