So much has been learned about alcoholism in the past decades and it is now a curable disease. To this day there are a lot of people who will not believe alcoholism is a real, serious disease or they will look down on people who suffer from alcoholism. Alcohol is a shroud that covers every aspect of a person’s life. For those who don’t seek help, it is unlikely they will return to a healthy lifestyle. For those who have the strength of mind or of family, the outlook of rehabilitation is very promising.…
The 12 step AA program has helped many people with healing process by analyzing addiction as a spiritual formality, as Krista Tippet explains. Susan Cheever explains during her interview that giving them a sense of being alone and that being alone makes those feel that drugs and alcohol are the only kind of friend that was easy to have. Being in AA it was able to aid others in helping amongst themselves and believe that the higher power is within. Susan Cheever, a Christian, mentions that during her experience with addictions who lack faith will live in a fear based life. When you have lack of trust you have lack of faith.…
The article “Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: a National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses” talks about a survey the authors mailed out to college students around the United States. The colleges they sent the surveys to were 4-year colleges located in 40 different states and the District of Columbia. The purpose of the survey was to “examine the nature and extent of binge drinking among a representative national sample of students at 140 US 4-year colleges and details the problems such drinking causes for drinkers themselves and for others on college campus” (Wechsler). Nine colleges were originally dropped from the survey because they were “inappropriate.” Two thirds of the sample was public colleges and the…
Recovering alcoholic Bob Ferguson once said “I didn’t want to change me. I wanted to change the world around me with a chemical” (Ferguson Alcohol: cradle to grave, p 208). What this quote means is that Ferguson wanted a quick way to get rid of the troubles he was having in the world and the only way he thought he could fit the world was with alcohol. Although many Americans consider alcoholism as an addiction, researchers prove that alcoholism is in fact a disease because of a person’s genetics and uncontrollable environment factors. In addition, there are many terrifying ways how a person can become an alcoholic.…
Though addiction has created beliefs in and of its own, a client may find that the meld of both new and old belief systems will determine what support may be most effective based on what the client identifies…
The majority of society has a notion that alcoholism is a disease rather than a choice, however any addictive behavior is started by an individual's willingness to use the substance. “Research has shown that alcoholism is a choice, not a disease, and stripping alcohol abuser of their choice, by applying the disease concept, is a threat to the health of the individual.”(Baldwin,2003). The author argues that fraudulent research has made the disease concept accepted by society in place of calling alcoholism a choice. Baldwin points to a flaw in the research “The surveys he based his conclusions on were from a handpicked group of alcoholics.…
America’s Legal Drinking Age Should be Held at Age Twenty-one In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which required all US states to raise their ages for purchase and possession of alcohol to the age of 21. Although the legal drinking age has been debated upon, over the years it has been greatly proven that the age should not be lowered. Since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was put into play in 1984, the legal drinking age in the United States has been the age of twenty-one. This law requiring a person to be of twenty-one years of age when either purchasing or consuming alcohol in the United States has been taken very seriously in all states with the exception of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire, and…
DWI: Drinking While Immature Hanging out with friends, partying and playing truth or dare are just a few things that appear harmless until someone out of the group becomes the supplier. Supplier? You might ask.…
The drinking age in the United States is twenty one, and is a topic of debate today. In 1984 Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act which made the national drinking age twenty one across the nation. Before Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, the drinking age varied throughout the states between eighteen and twenty one. This caused many states to change the age and become what it is now. Reagan signed the act for drinking age requirements to be twenty one,this not only reduced the sales of alcohol but also made illegally getting alcohol a more popular act.…
Hannah Maier Elder 1101-91 5 October 2014 One Bourbon, One Scotch, Eighteen Years In Belgium, the drinking age is fifteen years old, meaning teenage McLovin and his friends from the Blockbuster film Superbad would have had no problem purchasing alcohol if they lived there. Unfortunately, they lived in the United States which has one of the highest legal drinking ages in the world at twenty-one. The majority of the world, however, has settled on a drinking age of eighteen.…
In 1984 the legal drinking age was raised from 18 to 21; Keeping this in mind Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that “people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States” (“Fact Sheets - Underage Drinking.”). This rise in age not only blew up within society and media but also created a platform for a new debate over the 21 vs 18 drinking age. A plethora of people all across the nation have joined the debate and added their two cents to the argument. Many sources provide overwhelming amounts of evidence and facts to create a compelling argument that the drinking age should be lowered. One of the issues with drinking is that some individuals have become irresponsible and consume too much in such…
Numerous people today, drink without any realization of possibly being an alcoholic. A drinking process will begin and turn into something ugly. Recent studies assert, “the percentage of people who will relapse after a period recovery ranges from 50% to 90%. This is a frightening statistic and it is often used as justification for those who wish to carry on with their addiction” (“Beating The Relapse” 1). Unfortunately, there is a 50 to 90 percent relapse rating.…
Applying Conflict Theory to Binge Drinking Society is broken down and understood through the use of theories. Social theories are analytical frameworks used to understand social problems that plague society. (Hungerford, 2008). Conflict theorists explain how society is structured to benefit few at the expense of the majority (Hungerford, 2008).…
may not take much to make them lose their way on the road to recovery. As a result, they feel justified with returning to alcohol or drugs. This is why it is important for self-efficacy to remain high for recovering addicts. One’s commitment to abstinence is a strong predictor for motivation in the reductions of drug and alcohol use. The level of commitment to abstinence at treatment end predicts sustained abstinence, a requirement for recovery (Laudet & Stanick, 2010).…
Alcoholism has been one of the most dangerous and harming drugs due to the deaths and lives it has destroyed. Even if it seems hard this can be stopped if people with that disease look for help and people around them support them too. Alcoholism is a disease related with uncontrolled drinking and preoccupation with alcohol. This problem does not require lab test to be diagnosed with it and it can last for years which we don't want for it happen. To give you a better understanding of alcoholism; it includes people it includes people who can't control themselves in drinking alcoholic beverages.…