Alcohol the Great Poison

I began drinking alcohol from a very young age, and consumed it on a daily basis, for the best part of forty years, before deciding to give it a break for a while, I rarely suffered with hangovers or got seriously drunk, I drank to socialize, and drunk in hundreds of establishments, in different countries, met hundreds of people along the way, making many friends in the process.
I decided to give it all a break having been on a bit of a bender, and what I experienced was pretty frighting to say the least, I didn't suffer with hallucinations or anything like that, but the actual pain I went through was unreal