Friends of mine who came from successful parents might build something bigger than their parents or decay into alcohol and drug abuse.

There still will be dry counties just like there is now for alcohol.

Usually drugs or alcohol were involved, always loneliness at a immense profound level - try standing reading the note of a suicide in their usually truly nasty apartment or rental cabin with the body in front of you and you will really know the loneliness and the expression "walking in someone else's shoes."

The faith I was brought up in states that drinking alcoholic beverages is a sin yet Jesus turned water into Wine.

Next I need a new realtor - mine turned out to be an alcoholic (not kidding, had to open the lockbox for him last time) so that’s already a big enough reason to move on. 

I've known sales clerks who've been fired for selling alcohol to an underage officer.

I don't know Nebraska law, but I think it's a fairly universal concept that whoever provided the alcohol is next in line of liability after the person who imbibed and later caused harm to someone or something.

Some people are addicted to gambling and some people to drugs or alcohol; I was addicted to automotive performance.

E used to be an alcoholic and, while he delivered on hundreds of projects, there were a small number that he let get the best of him.

By that logic we should congratulate heroin dealers since party goers are no longer confined to legal substances such as alcohol & marijuana.