Dealing with an alcoholic

[baldgye]

Sorry but i'm calling bull****.

Dont care what "researchers" have said.

Drugs are not OK unless being used for medicinal purposes. 

TIL hudson has never drank a caffeinated soda or coffee.    Not even just to try it once?  I'm impressed. 

There is a lot we have learned today about Hudson, I feel...

[Waateva]

My uncle's girlfriend is an alcoholic.  She is a nightmare to be around, sadly all attempts at telling her (and the inevitable crying apology to people) she slips back into it like a hand in a glove. 

If they're not aware of the problem, make them aware.  If they're aware of the problem but still do it, then offer them help.  If all else fails you have to remove these toxic people from your lives. 

I don't mean to be the morality police but to say this,

The reason I ask is because of what happened the other night when I was smoking cheese.

and then

My biggest thing is I don't want my kids growing up thinking its OK to have a beer in your hand everywhere, including when driving.

Has its own sense of irony, one appearing to be acceptable the other not. 

I try not to be judgemental of people as I am far form perfect, but this made me wonder. 

H

Alcohol abuse is much more destructive to both your personal life as well as to others around you than cheese abuse, if you even want to call it that.  In a 2011 study, alcohol ranked just below heroin in social harm and 4th in harm to yourself, only behind heroin, crack, and crystal meth.  Alcohol abuse has also been tied to over 50 different diseases, and is estimated to result in over 80,000 deaths each year just in the USA.  I say these things as someone who has one side of my family with a ton of alcohol abuse, and off the top of my head I know that my brother, father, two of my uncles, two of my aunts, and four to five of my cousins would qualify as alcoholics, and that is just on one side of my family.  My uncle recently had a massive heart attack at 50, my aunt is in and out of the hospital for things related to her alcohol abuse, and my father's health has been steadily declining for the last five years or so.

There are certainly people addicted to the cheese, but I don't think that comparing a person who is constantly drunk and also driving to someone smoking in their own home is a fair comparison to make.

Sorry but i'm calling bull****.

Dont care what "researchers" have said.

Drugs are not OK unless being used for medicinal purposes. 

Back on topic, hope it all works out for you Melvang.

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