How many individuals get injured or lose their lives in alcohol related traffic accidents every year? How many individuals face serious consequences in their lives because they received a DWI conviction? How many individuals lose their lives every year because of drinking problems? On an annual basis, how many alcoholics fail to get the professional alcohol treatment they require? How many children are born each year with fetal alcohol syndrome? How many individuals lose their lives each year from a condition that is one hundred percent preventable, such as alcohol poisoning? How many people’s lives are cut short due to irresponsible and destructive drinking? How many junior high, high school, and college students lose their lives every year due to an alcohol overdose? How many people are the victims of alcohol related violence or crime each and every year?

Why Would Anyone Want to Drink in an Irresponsible and Excessive Manner?

So what’s the point in asking these questions? Basically to highlight the devastating and destructive nature of abusive and careless drinking.  Indeed, and based on the above questions, I wonder why anyone would choose to drink in an excessive and abusive manner.

Stated another way, with the host of financial difficulties, relationship issues, health problems, employment dilemmas, and legal proceedings that are associated with chronic alcohol abuse and alcoholism, why would any individual with any sense at all want to drink in a hazardous and excessive manner? If truth be told when some of the above topics are looked at more closely, careless and abusive drinking becomes more illogical and makes even less sense.

Wouldn’t you think that alcoholics would be able to see some of the alcohol symptoms that they display?  In a similar manner doesn’t it seem plausible to think that many more families would involve themselves in an alcohol intervention for the person in the household who is an alcohol abuser or an alcoholic?  What is more, wouldn’t you think that people who drink irresponsibly would try to learn more about their drinking behavior by researching various alcohol related statistics?

After reviewing the alcohol addiction and alcohol abuse research findings, the point is so relevant that it needs to be stated again:  With all of the destructive and disastrous outcomes that are directly or indirectly associated with repetitive and continuous alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction, why would any individual want to engage in excessive drinking?

What Can be Done About the Widespread Nature of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the United States?

So what can be done about the widespread nature of alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the United States?

1. Our students need more meaningful and more relevant educational and preventative approaches and methods so that more students at all grade levels, including those at college, are “reached.
2. In a similar way, our students need to learn how to become problem solvers in life rather than getting easily attracted to the ”quick fix” and the “instant gratification” of a drug or alcohol abuse ”high” or “buzz”.
3. Individuals who are alcoholics or alcohol abusers need to look at themselves in the mirror and ask why they are not getting the professional alcohol therapy they require.
4. Society needs to get the message to more people about the debilitating and unhealthy effects of abusive drinking.

There’s Room For Optimism if Those Who Engage in Unhealthy and Abusive Drinking Can Become Persuaded to Get the Alcohol Rehabilitation They Need

There’s room for hope and optimism if people can start drinking responsibly and those who engage in careless and excessive drinkingcan become encouraged to get the alcohol rehab they require.  Indeed, why put your loved ones through suffering, pain, and turmoil because of your abusive and unhealthy drinking when you have the power to control your life by drinking responsibly or even stopping drinking if you can’t control your drinking behavior?

          

Our lives are filled with situations that challenge our family members or friends. There are a variety of addictions that may be physical, emotional or mental. We seem to handle physical challenges better than we do others during our life.

You may work with people who seem fine but in reality are experiencing nearly constant mental and emotional stress. A back massager and jogging may help one. Therapy or prescription drugs may ease another. The point is that pain and anguish relief is personally tailored.

One couple tried to quit smoking for years. They made a list of things they do that did not accommodate their habit. They noticed that it is difficult to smoke when you are doing latch hook or preparing a meal. They signed up for private cooking classes offered in their community.

The smell of smokes has been replaced with scents from the kitchen. There are many ways to live with bad habits and it’s important to find what works for you.

Looking back at home movies, photo collections, or a scrapbook album can generate memories. These items that document our shared lives can be powerful therapies. We think about family members and how they used to be, their bad experiences, and how they overcame their problems.

We talk openly about major diseases that are common to many families. We share our stories of treatments and support. We attend support groups, participate in online forums and join discussions on websites.

When it comes to dependence issues we tend to be quiet. It makes sense to me that people want to deal with these matters privately but the truth is that we need to be more open. Losing a family member to something like a meth addition is devastating.

Meth is a highly addictive drug that takes over the life of someone who is loved. The person you knew has utterly disappeared and you feel an all consuming loss. Some people would prefer their loved one had a disease instead because that would be easier to treat and talk about.

It is common knowledge that a basic pillar of addiction treatment programs that work is an acknowledgement of a Christian God that equals love. People who conquer their dependency and return to the real world often testify to the helpfulness of love and faith.

More and more people are shining the spotlight of love and acceptance on dependency victims. They embrace the reality of the situation discuss it in forthright and open manner. Methods may be different in families and extended families. The one common feature is normally unconditional love.

We can achieve success by increasing our power to prevail over the problem. This can be accomplished by working with others to increase our mental and emotional strengths. Extending cooperation to others confronted with these issues is just as important as reaching the afflicted person.

          

Many people have anger management problems when they drink alcohol. Would you say that you are one of these people or do you know a person who struggles to control their anger when they are drunk? If you have answered “yes” to this question then this article may well be of interest to you.

I am not personally involved with anger management as a career, I actually offer people cheap holidays and work part time in the jobs in foster care sector.

I was only reading this morning on the BBC news website about the convictions for murder of two young men who had killed when under the influence of alcohol. They had become involved with an altercation with another man and one of the men then decided to punch him. He fell to the ground and then the second man for some unknown reason kicked him in the head. It was believed that it was his head hitting the pavement that caused him to die rather than the punch and kick of the two men but despite this they were both convicted.

Three men and their family and friends have had their lives ruined – basically due to the over consumption of alcohol. I seriously doubt whether they would have acted in this way had they been sober not that this in anyway should be a defence.

The two men have gone on record to say how ashamed and sorry they are; not that this will really help in any way. Let us not also forget the families of these two men, they will have also been badly affected by this whole sorry event.

There is also the person who has tragically died, such a waste of a precious life. I also of course feel very sorry for this person, his family and friends. I have to say that it is a real tragedy.

I for one have stopped drinking alcohol; a drink that at one staged helped me to speak fluently. I had a stutter for eighteen years of my life and alcohol enabled me to gain the confidence to talk without the fear of stuttering.

I have now managed to overcome the stutter and with the help of a DVD authoring company have produced a seventy minute DVD which describes my journey to fluency along with the techniques required to stop stuttering.

For people who do become aggressive when they drink alcohol, please learn the lessons from above before you also ruin the lives of yourself, your family and innocent bystanders.