Alcohol Addiction Statistics: Facts on Drinking
Children with alcoholic parents can be up to ten times more likely to abuse alcohol says alcohol addiction statistics. Alcohol addiction means that the body needs alcohol even when the body is physically suffering from the alcohol. You can often develop the addiction to alcohol if your mother was a drinker during pregnancy or it can be a learned behavior if observed throughout your childhood. Parents can pass on alcoholic addiction as easily as eye or hair color.
Consuming alcohol at an early age can cause serious health problems later in life. A scary stat also is that almost 50 percent of the deaths in car accidents of young people ranging from ages 7-30 years of age involved alcohol. As one continues to drink through his or her formative years, changes can occur that a person did not expect when they started. They tend to withdraw more and more from friends and family, choosing to abuse alone or with others who are just as bad. Their mentality is solely focused on alcohol, even when they aren’t drinking. Tolerance levels will increase, and it will be harder to get drunk or buzzed. Negative effects of alcohol manifest in many areas of their life, social, work, physical. Attempt to stop drinking result in physical withdrawal symptoms like cravings, and uncontrollable shaking.
Depression is a common symptom of the roller coaster associated with prolonged alcohol abuse. At first, using alcohol to numb emotional turmoil seems to work. However, alcohol is a barbiturate that causes the brain to release chemicals to elevate the body’s mood. Once that supply is depleted, the body crashes and ends up feeling worse than before. According to some alcohol addiction statistics related to suicide, 15-20 percent of suicides have involved alcohol. This does not mean at all, that if there is alcohol history in your family you will have a bad future. Statistics are useful to see that there are tendencies, but through education, will-power, self-awareness and motivation you can overcome one’s family patterns and lead a fulfilling life.
Here is a poem I wrote that others that visit your site might like.
BEER
Please tell me something
Why people curse my name
Why when trouble happens
I’m always to blame
I’m just a drink
Made to quench the thirst
After having several
Most people behave worse
I’m made from wheat
Barely, rice or malt
Because people enjoy me
It’s not my fault
Some drink for courage
Some drink for fun
Some to look cool
Some to become numb
No matter the reason
I’m still just a drink
It’s up to you to control
Your actions and what you think
Some people act stupid
When filled with me
Others laughing, some abusive
I affect everyone differently
Remember it’s the person
Who has the control?
So stop making me
Play the bad-guy role
written by Angela Hutcherson-Jenkins
My son was xddicted to drugs and alcohol in his early teens following a severely fractured skull when he was about ten years old. The fracture started with extensive shattering at the right temple and traversed across his forehead ending at the right temple. He acquired a criminal record, most of it as a result of his drug and alcohol abuse. For more than 20 years he always was able to find good steady jobs until he was arrested for a 3rd OUI. Although the court accepted his plea to a 2nd OUI, his criminal docket was filed without the accepted change of plea resulting in an erroneous felony charge. Over the next four years this resulted in making it almost immpossible for him to find a steady job. He was financially ruined, his wife left him, and once we (his mother and me) found out bad thinggs were for him we agreed to pay his rent for a year, paid off his maxed out credit cards, pay for his health insurance and for badly needed dental work and I would provide his transportation. But Bruce was very proud and didn’t want to rely on his wife or elderly parents for survivival. Our help just made things worse for him and he took his own life. He was only 48 years old.
How can suicides like Bruce’s be prevented?