Posts Tagged ‘alcoholism’

Why wait for Spring? Do it now!

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Yes NOW is the time! If you are having a drug or alcohol problem, please seek help. Now is the perfect time to go to rehab. Do it for yourself and everyone around you.

Addicts may not realize but they are causing chaos all around them. An addict, who only has the ability to concentrate on themselves, as they are so driven to acquire the drugs or alcohol needed to relieve their pain, cause much upset and grief to those around them. The relatives around an addict are so consumed with what the addict is doing to themselves and it is always on their minds of what is happening or going to happen to their loved one, they themselves have accidents and problems.

The addict needs help. When the addict cannot realize this on his own it is best for the family to call in the experts to best handle them. The expert being an interventionist. He or she will ensure that the intervention will be controlled and done in such a way to get the addict to come to his or her own realization that they need help and agree to go to rehab. This is the best way to handle an addict or alcoholic as they will not have taken any responsibility for the addiction in the first place and it is a very hard thing to swallow that you are an addict and need help.

There are many effective drug free rehabilitation centers with highly successful programs to enable a person to live a drug or alcohol free life.

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Alcoholics - Good ole Uncle Joe

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

There is always someone in the family isn’t there? When you were a kid it seems a little funny, you were going over to Uncle Joe & Auntie’s for that big Sunday dinner, hmmmmm and there was good ole’ Uncle Joe at the door smiling a crooked smile, hugging ya, welcoming everyone at the door with lots of big laughs! Only those big laughs were not from feeling truly jolly it was from all that booze he had consumed before everyone had arrived.

Then when you get a little older you realize the dinners have stopped and you get that “No” from Mom “you cannot stay over at cousin Suzie’s……”. What why not? ……seems there’s a little trouble over at their house.

Uncle Joe is a drinker. An alcoholic. He’s abusive. The family is in trouble. He’s not working, the family has to go on welfare. The emotional upset I later found out, nearly killed my aunt. She decided to stay and in that put herself and her family at risk. Uncle Joe continued to drink, heavily. My cousins who were nearly 13 had such upsets, and the fear when their father drank of the abusivness that they used to wet to bed almost everynight. My aunt found out she had sugar diabetes amongst many many other illnesses. My Uncle threatened them and beat down their resistance in that it took several years before my aunt had the courage to leave him.

My Aunt only needed to hold her ground and insist he get help and check into a drug and alcohol rehab program and all would have turned out quite different. Uncle Joe would have had a fighting chance to beat his alcoholism had everyone in the family stood up and said “NO” you must go to a rehab program.

The results of not going: The family, each one still suffers emotionally to this day from all the abusivness, the fear, and the anxiety from their father’s alcohol abuse. Uncle Joe continued to drink and drink and drink, he died, drunk choking on his own vomit.

This is not what you want to happen to someone you love. If someone you love is abusing alcohol or drugs, get help. There are many excellent drug or alcohol rehab programs to help the person lead a drug or alcohol free life.

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WHAT? OUR CHILDREN ARE USING DRUGS!

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Did you know today is “Universal Childrens Day” around the world?
Children are to be celebrated! They are our future.

I have always thought of myself as a good parent. One who is aware and always with the intention that my children would grow up to be able, responsible and most important, happy! When I look around I can see this is not the case with all teenagers and youth.

Something is terribly wrong? When a child reaches their teen years it seems that they are not so happy, not so responsible and not enjoying the sports or activities of their choice.

Drugs and alcohol seem to be the new activity enticing them. Friends who have already been enticed in turn do the enticing. “Come on one hit won’t hurt you”, “You’ll feel great”, “It’ll help you talk to Sarah” “It’ll be fun!”

A 2008 NIDA study reported the following percentages of 8th - 10th & 12th graders had abused these drugs at least once in the past year:

-Powder Cocaine: 1.4% of 8th graders, 2.6% of 10th graders and 4.0% 12th graders.
-Crack Cocaine: 1.1% of 8th graders, 1.3% of 10th graders and 1.6% 12th graders.

Just think, 1.4% of your teenager’s friends in Grade 8 have tried cocaine. These are high numbers considering cocaine and crack cocaine are highly addictive and could also lead to death.
These are our children! It is Universal Childrens Day! Shouldn’t they be celebrating life instead of trying to destroy life with drugs such as cocaine, crack, and marijuana. Even alcohol is a poison and can kill them.

#7 of The Universal Rights of Children (the simple version) written below shows our duty as a parent.

7. You have the right to go to school for free, to play, and to have an equal chance to develop yourself and to learn to be responsible and useful.

Your parents have the special responsibilities for your education and guidance.”

The fact that by grade 12, 4.1% have tried cocaine shows us that as parents we need to ensure more education on the abuse and effects of drugs. By grade 12 they should be so strong minded that they would never try a drug that would lead them to drug addiction and a drug rehab program.

Children should be celebrated and they should be celebrating but not at a crack or cocaine party!

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DRUG ADDICTION - A MOTHER’S STORY

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Drugs rob us of our loved ones. There is no doubt in my mind. Look around you, you will see there is someone, if not in your own family, in someone else’s family, a loved one with a drug or alcohol addiction.
My son was born January 1986. He was perfect in everyway. When he was 6 weeks old he was trying to make the sounds of a nursery song, he was actually trying to sing. I marked it on his calendar.

He loved music, he sang, he loved to dance. He wanted lessons like his sister. Okay. From that point he was laying the ground work for what he wanted in his life he to took singing lessons, he joined a choir, he auditioned for musicals at the local theater. Every audition he made the cut, he was in the play! He also auditioned for one of the top performing choirs and acquired a spot in this very prestigous choir! He was elated! He had many, many friends all of whom were dancers, singers, performers and all reaching for their goals. He was building his future. What more could a parent want. Life was good. But was it?

At the age of 12 things started to go awry for my son. I did not see the warnings signs. I later found out that peer pressure from friends who were not in the arts gave him such a hard time that to be their friends and be cool he couldn’t be the singer, the dancer the performer he had to be “the guy with the bag of weed”.

The marijuana took his motivation, clouded his thinking, he forgot words to songs and he started losing the friends that were motived. The so called friends that were left had one thing on their minds. Getting stoned!

The road was a long one and it lasted for over 10 years, to me it felt like 100 years. My son went to a rehab. There was some relief from late night calls, the police at the door…..on and on. Then he got kicked out. He couldn’t stay at home we kicked him out. I was heartbroken, was there no end to this addiction! It took less than a year he came begging said he was dying and needed help. The drugs had escalated from marijuana to cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol. Marijuana is addicting and it always leads to stonger drugs.

He had to make the choice continue with the drugs, losing his family, dying or GET HELP! He chose help! And an effective rehabilitation center with incredible results and he made it.

Addiction can end and we can have the ones we love back and living a drug free live.

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DRUG OR ALCOHOL ADDICTION - THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Drugs are a poison to our bodies and our minds. Taking drugs is not the answer to life’s problems. Drugs and alcohol add more problems which lead to the taking of more drugs and more alcohol. It becomes a vicious circle It is hard to break free from this circle as someone addicted to drugs or alcohol will tell you.

The problems that come with drug or alcohol addiction are far worse than the original problem the person was avoiding in the first place.

Some of the difficult problems arising from addiction range from the physical side effects of the drug or alcohol to the loss of jobs and family. The risk the addict takes is of losing everything in his life. He loses the motivation to do a good job, to arrive at work on time. He most likely will call in sick, be late and will ruin relationships with co-workers. When he loses his job he then of course has no money. New problem - no money, no drugs or alcohol, where does he get the money. Steal it. Another new problem. It is a never ending story - each problem leads to another and another and another - each one a much larger problem and one much harder to face. The addict is truly in a trapped state, he’s damned either way.

The only way out is a good drug rehabilitation program so the addict can get off the drugs or alcohol, detox the body of the toxins, and learn life skills to help him be drug free and productive!

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DRUGS - THE REAL TRAP

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Drugs are a trap! It happens so quick that a person can become a drug addict before they even realize.

The reason a person uses a drug, any drug is a mystery to some. Where one person can handle the day to day stress of work, school or peer pressure, to another it is devasting and is to be avoided at any cost. This cost can lead to drug or alcohol addiction if the pain or stress is too great for the person.

The trap: The person uses a drug to avoid their pain, whether it is physical or the mental pain called stress, this pain is alleviated for the short time of the high. When the person comes down from the high….they drop lower…. get high again to combat the feeling of being depressed from coming down, get high again. The addict is up then down, up, down, what a trap!

The person now is using more marijuana, more cocaine, more crack, more ecstasy or drinking more alcohol as they have become addicted and need more of the drug to try to get to the original high.

The addict now has a long list of physical and mental stresses caused by the addiction. His or her option is to address the addiction by going to a good drug rehab program.

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ALCOHOL & ALCOHOLISM - THE ACTUAL FACTS

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

If the truth be known alcohol is a poison. Yes a poison! It can be a slow form of death or it can be fast. Most people do not think of alcohol in this way but the fact is if you drink it effects your body and organs in a very negative way.

Alcohol has short term effects and long term effects. Short term effects include perceptions that are dulled, reflexes slowed, slurred speech and nausea. Also your comprehension and judgement are impaired so when drinking, decisions that are made are not always the best for you and or your family. Hence, drinking and driving which is a criminal offense, this then would lead to charges being laid, jail, your reputation ruined, not allowed to enter the United States, and so on, the picture is not a bright one.

The long term effects of drinking lead to alcoholism and a deteriorating physical condition. The toxic effect on the liver is very serious, it leads to hepatitis, a condition in which the liver cells become inflamed and die. If there is continued abuse of alcohol there is the fatal final stage which is cirrhosis of the liver.

Alcoholism usually starts with acceptable social drinking and soon leads to having a drink for every mood: one to celebrate, one to perk up or one to calm down, or one to just relieve the stress of the day at the office. This then leads to needing NO EXCUSE to drink, the alcoholic craves it and is then controlled by the dependence on the alcohol.

This dependence on the alcohol will destroy the person’s life. It will cause conflicts with their spouses, children, friends. They may become abusive to the ones closest to them destroying the relationships.

When the person realizes and decides to stop drinking they need to be in an effective drug and alcohol rehab program. It is best to find an abstinence based program. You do not want to replace the alcohol with a prescription. The person needs to get through the withdrawal safely so he can be free from the effects of alcohol and any drugs. There may be severe withdrawal symptoms the first week, insomnia, visual hallucinations, rapid pulse so it is extremely important that the facility that is chosen is an experienced and knowledgable rehab to get the person through the withdrawal with the least amount of pain and discomfort.

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