Alcoholism In My Life Research Paper

Alcohol takes over the lives of many individuals around the world. Just about every person knows someone or has been someone that has drank alcohol. Alcohol is currently one of the top drugs that is abused. Alcohol effects the mind, body, emotions, and even relationships with people closest to you. But what leads someone to alcohol? Is it stress, home life complications, to forget someone or something, or even the thought of a good time coming from consumption? There are many reasons for someone to result to drinking. I believe that people drink to either get that “buzz” or just drunk. They each have their own personal reason whether it’s reasonable or not. It is an escape from reality for a time. Nobody thinks that taking that drink will potentially lead to alcoholism, but unfortunately it does sometimes. Alcohol intake at different times of life can result in different …show more content…
Sixteen-year-old Isaiah says, “my father whom I love drinks a lot and I wish day in and day out that he’d stop. My mother left and asked me to live with her, yet I did not want to leave my school and friends. The one thing that I wish my father would not do is break promises that he made me throughout my life. Breaking promises is the worst he could do.” National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence stated, that alcoholism affects approximately 18 million adults in the United States and about 26.8 million children are exposed to that. Also about 6.6 million children under 18 live with at least one parent that is alcoholic. The effects on children are stress, instability, neglect or violence. Children of parents that are alcoholics lose their childhood because they need to take on more responsibility and be the grown up. The older children that raise the younger siblings while trying to manage daily household chores plus school become very overwhelmed. It is not good to put that kind of pressure on someone that is not