Beyond Sober | Documentary on Alcohol
Before you go to AA or therapy, try to quit on your own with this method. It contains 12 reminders for staying sober. It has already worked for others. You will go to a place where the use of alcohol has no appeal or place in your life, so it ceases to be an issue. You will move ‘beyond sober.’ Join others who have simply quit and are glad of it: Bas Rutten, Gary Oldman, Joe Namath, Robert Downey, Jr., Jada Pinkett Smith, Joe Walsh.
This video is designed to be a reminder, to watch once a week or so, to keep you on track. Robin Williams went off track, for example, when he relapsed. He was not ‘beyond sober,’ but you can be: a place where alcohol is no more tempting that a bottle of bleach or any cleaning product under the sink…
If you are curious about prescription drugs, consider that the Betty Ford Clinic uses naltrexone (Vivitrol) and acamprosate (Campral) with its patients now. Some doctors also recommend varenicline (Chantix) and disulfiram (Anatabuse). These have various effects on various people.
This documentary was entered in the Sundance Film Festival, documentary division, and lost to the story of YouTube and Chris Crocker, “Me @ the Zoo,” later aired on HBO. It was nice to give Chris some competition and funny to lose to him. His doc was good, I thought. It was poorly titled, however; and should have been called simply, “The Story of Chris Crocker.” More vivid and catchy, I think.
Opening photograph of a rainbow by Malene; second photograph of a rainbow by Saperaud. Thanks to both.