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At first, the transition was difficult to manage, Farrell said: “After 15 or 20 years of carousing the way I caroused and drinking the way I drank, the sober world is a pretty scary world.”

The good hands of Allstate and Prudential’s rock were sober affairs.

He told them he was frustrated and now he had sobered up, he had no intention of taking his own life or hurting people.

Safety protocols and procedures have "greatly improved in mining", Minns said, but the two deaths were a "sobering reminder of why we need to always remain vigilant to protect workers".

When Charlie Sheen needed his then-13-year-old daughter taken to a hair appointment because he was too drunk to drive, he turned to his sober friend, Tony Todd.