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[Knedliki]

One guy at a summer camp in Spain was shooting up in the dormitory that I shared with him. I went in the room in the evening and there he was sticking a needle in his arm, about 2am that night I woke up and he was hiding behind the curtains with his face pressed up against the window!
He was told to leave the next day.
And whatever it was that he was injecting, he'd ordered it off the internet and after he left jiffy bags kept coming through the post with his name on them.

The school didn't report him to the police so he probably just waltzed into another job somewhere else.

[Nicky_McG]

The ESL World attracts more than its fair share of alcholics and losers because it's easy to get into, easy to find work and, most importantly, losing a job due to alcoholism will not spell the end of your career.

[cartago]

I'm an alcoholic and there's a fine line between partying too hard, which is how it normally starts, and having a serious problem. It's an addiction. I was normally pretty high functioning and managed to keep it secret. I'd make sure to shave, shower, put on clean clothes and pretend to be normal.

I think summer camps may attract desperate people and perhaps that's why they attract so many alcoholics. It's funny, when the OP mentioned having to carry them, at first I took that literally, like they were so drunk they couldn't walk.

I did some summer camps and hated it but I actually wasn't drinking heavily at the time because of the situation, sharing accommodation with other teachers and I wasn't as heavily into addiction at the time.

I decided teaching wasn't for me and got into working in the media.

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