The Native American cultural is one of the biggest societies that experience problems in alcoholism. Many in the world do not understand how destructive alcohol can be for Native Americans, possibly more devastating than any disease, or hardship one must go through. Alcohol has no conscience. It feels no remorse or regret for the kind of devastation that it creates on lifestyles everywhere. As a child, I grew up in an alcoholic home. Alcohol was not only a vicious parasite that I had to deal with, but it is what ruined my own relationship my parents growing up. Like Victor I had a parent who was checked out, depressed, and not willing to get help for the problem. “The days after, my father would feel so guilty, that he would tell me stories
