How does alcohol or drug abuse affect the individual and their family?
February 8th, 2010 | by admin |How does alcohol or drug abuse affect the user and their family? How do they feel? What do they do? What can they do?
I’m only answering the Alcohol part of this question as I have personal experience but no experience of drug abuse.
It depends entirely on the individual.You can be an alcohol abuser for decades and the only clue family might have is that they often smell alcohol on your breath at any time of day or night.Your family might be aware that you drink a lot and they too drink a lot. In these scenarios your family may not be affected at all. You may have some brilliant nights out, really memorable ones where you were so happy you want to do it again…. (and again, and again). However, you as a heavy drinker are exposed to no end of health problems.
Physical and mental health problems can manifest themselves at any time. You might drink far too much and then choke to death on your own vomit. This can even happen to somebody who has their first alcoholic drink(s) in their life. You may become promiscuous due to intoxication and even get AIDS/other sexually transmitted diseases/raped/pregnant/killed. You may become obese. You may spiral into an alcoholic depression and harm or kill yourself. You may get cirrhosis of the liver (don’t kid yourself, teenagers can die from this). You may physically abuse your family and not even remember the next day what you did. You may suffer "cold turkey" as often as 1/2/3 times a week.. cold turkey can result in you skipping work (losing your job), make others very worried at your shaking and sweating, vomiting several times a day. Get hooked on drinking to stave off withdrawal symptoms.
So that is how you and your family can be affected. How they feel is dependent on your symptoms. What do they do? It’s dependent on your symptoms. What can they do? Nag you. Nag you. Nag you. Ultimately they can do nothing, it depends entirely on you.
Fun isn’t it?
4 Responses to “How does alcohol or drug abuse affect the individual and their family?”
By Julia III on Feb 9, 2010 | Reply
The family feels scared, helpless and confused. The only help for the addict is to enter a residential treatment program. From my experience, out-patient doesn’t work, counseling alone doesn’t work and suboxone alone doesn’t work. Get the patient into a treatment center. At least there will be hope again.
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By Erica on Feb 9, 2010 | Reply
Alc. will make the user more and more depressed and will cause them to say weird things
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By Bert Weidemeier on Feb 9, 2010 | Reply
It can tear apart and divide a family. The family’s life will be filled with lies, denials, blames and a ton of finger pointing. The hardest part is to get someone to realize and believe that they truly have an alcohol or drug problem, once you do that, then you can start to get them help to clear up the problem.
I went thru this and it literally divided the family because of the persons’ lying; and now he wants forgiveness…bull$hit!!
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By ian_21st_century on Feb 9, 2010 | Reply
I’m only answering the Alcohol part of this question as I have personal experience but no experience of drug abuse.
It depends entirely on the individual.You can be an alcohol abuser for decades and the only clue family might have is that they often smell alcohol on your breath at any time of day or night.Your family might be aware that you drink a lot and they too drink a lot. In these scenarios your family may not be affected at all. You may have some brilliant nights out, really memorable ones where you were so happy you want to do it again…. (and again, and again). However, you as a heavy drinker are exposed to no end of health problems.
Physical and mental health problems can manifest themselves at any time. You might drink far too much and then choke to death on your own vomit. This can even happen to somebody who has their first alcoholic drink(s) in their life. You may become promiscuous due to intoxication and even get AIDS/other sexually transmitted diseases/raped/pregnant/killed. You may become obese. You may spiral into an alcoholic depression and harm or kill yourself. You may get cirrhosis of the liver (don’t kid yourself, teenagers can die from this). You may physically abuse your family and not even remember the next day what you did. You may suffer "cold turkey" as often as 1/2/3 times a week.. cold turkey can result in you skipping work (losing your job), make others very worried at your shaking and sweating, vomiting several times a day. Get hooked on drinking to stave off withdrawal symptoms.
So that is how you and your family can be affected. How they feel is dependent on your symptoms. What do they do? It’s dependent on your symptoms. What can they do? Nag you. Nag you. Nag you. Ultimately they can do nothing, it depends entirely on you.
Fun isn’t it?
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