My late parents were addicts. Both drank heavily all their lives. It was bad growing up in an environment like that. I don't drink now, because I learned the hard way how terrible it can be. I didn't want to wind up like my folks. Neither of them wanted to quit ever, it didn't matter if I begged them to or not. This was a problem for them, and they never addressed it. When my mother became old, and knocked herself out, (she broke her orbital bone around the eye). I did then have to intervene, as she was on coumadin. Nobody can make a person stop. It has to be their own decision, no matter what the addiction is, food, drink, drugs, it has to come from within the person. If you watch someone struggle with this kind of thing, if anything it teaches you what not to do in your own life. ginnie