But I can't tell you anything from grade school. I drank pretty much any time that I could. I was drinking weekly, every other week, daily if I could. My parents quit buying wine, but I had older sisters who visited from college and they would always bring me whatever they had left over. In high school, we either stole alcohol from the liquor store or we found people to buy it for us.
Every alcoholic is resourceful.
I would end up at parties, tell my friends I loved them, and then minutes later start a fight. I was failing out of school, drinking every day, ditching classes. I stole a lot from my parents, I couldn't hold down jobs. I was big into either cutting myself or drinking a lot with aspirin, or taking a lot of poisons. I managed to hide those suicide attempts from my parents.