The effects of alcohol abuse roll over the family like waves crashing on the shore.
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When someone experiences alcohol problems, the negative effects of drinking cost dearly, not only the drinker, but also on their partner and other family members.
Often alcohol abusers have a blind spot when it comes to the ravaging effects it can have on loved ones. Recent data suggest that approximately one child in every four (28.6%) in the United States is exposed to alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence in the family.
One of the clearest demonstrations of how alcohol use negatively impacts the family is the widely documented association between alcohol use and interpersonal violence. Family problems that are likely to co-occur with alcohol problems include:
1.Violence - slapping, hitting, smashing and throwing objects.
2. Marital conflict - arguments, the silent treatment, growing apart.
3. Infidelity - finding someone who ‘understands’, prostitution, internet sex.
4. Jealousy - of friends, your partner or the
5. Economic insecurity - loss of job, poor financial decisions, easting money
6. Divorce - isolation
7. Fetal alcohol effect - drinking when pregnant, brain damage to the baby.
Drinking problems may negatively alter marital and family functioning, but there also is evidence that they can increase as a consequence of marital and family problems. Therefore drinking and family functioning are strongly and reciprocally linked. Drinking increases family problems, as family problems increase, drinking increases.
A vicious cycle is formed. It is no surprise that alcohol problems are very common in couples that seek out marital therapy. And, relationship problems are common in drinkers who present for alcohol treatment
Here some more articles about alcohol abuse from around the web.
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Growing Up Alcoholic: The Effects of Alcohol Abuse on Children - Alcohol addiction is a very dangerous disease that not only affects the individual, but also has a direct affect on those family members who are around the addict. A great deal of parents who are dealing with stressors such as their …
The Effects Of Alcohol Consumption On Our Society (mens health care) - Alcohol is metabolized in the liver by enzymes, however, the liver can only metabolize a small amount of alcohol at a time, leaving the excess alcohol to circulate throughout the body. The intensity of the effect of alcohol on the body …
The Effects Of Alcohol In The Body - Don’t let alcoholism get to this point. Ethyl alcohol has industrial properties. The ethyl alcohol which is used in alcoholic beverages is heavily taxed. Ethyl alcohol is one of a family of alcohols, which include methyl alcohol, …
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Yasir Khan // Aug 31, 2008 at
Thank you for the article. It is very informative. I have relatives in my family who are addicted to alcohol so this article really helps me out.
Yasir
2 illytodd // Sep 2, 2008 at
I have seen first hand the destruction of families and loved ones when it comes to alcohol. It causes so much pain and loss. Both of my parents are now recovering alcoholics, but when they were still active in their addictions, it was like I had no parents at all. It was hard growing up, because I felt so alone. It takes a family working together to overcome the the perils of what damage has been done.
3 crimson // Sep 22, 2008 at
This article helps a lot, I have friends who are addicted with alcohol and has families. One friend of mine because of alcohol is separated with his wife, problem here is that he left him but their children is with my friend. I am so worried about his children because I think he has no capacity in taking care of his children. This article will help me a lot in what to do with my friend.
4 JamAce // Sep 23, 2008 at
I for one think I abuse alcohol usage a little bit, and would like to share what I just experienced. First of all, the blackout. I blacked out and was told by my friends afterwards that I did things I wouldn’t do when I am sober. Second, I feel bad about myself after all the drinking. Third, What good does it do to me? All I can think of are negative effects. What I’m trying to say here is Alcohol abuse does no good to you either.
5 rena ivory d. tabinas // Sep 30, 2008 at
. . . your articles are substantial. in any way or another it can really help a lot of people.. thanks. .
6 Kyle // Mar 8, 2009 at
To recover the problem, it is really practical article to the victims who are currently being addicted by alcohol or drug abuse. As someone said above, what does it do to us? Well, there is the only thing we can get a profit from it, that is a kind of senseless feeling that helps us to release from stress or sufferance we have gathered at school or work. On the other hands, there are a plenty of negative effects from it; loss job, loss spouse and lose children. Can you believe it? For the mere reason to get just unconscious feeling, would you like to keep taking it irrespective of loss everything you have? One thing that I want to tell the person who are suffering in alcohol or drug condition is that dude, you gotta be a realistic from now.
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