Drug and Alcohol Blog

My Dad is an alcoholic. He has gone through recovery (and then relapsed) so many times I have lost count. The longest he has gone without alcohol in his life is 10 years, and it isn’t a coincidence that his relapse caused his marriage to fall apart and caused him to lose his job. He is in denial - he was ‘laid off’ because of the economy (uh-huh - nothing to do with being an hour late, at best, everyday) and he is getting a divorce because my Mom ‘isn’t understanding or kind.’ I am 32 (his daughter), and I am just SO very tired of having these ups and downs. He has lost everything, but he NEVER seems to get it! Does anyone out there have an answer to this question: are some people truly hopeless cases?

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This may be a really stupid question, but if someone consumes a large quantity of alcohol on a regular basis, are they automatically an alcoholic? At what point is it a problem, if they don’t ever seem drunk and function ok?

I married two years ago and my husband has a 23 year old daughter. I noticed the last time she visited, that she consumed quite a bit of beer. She only drinks Miller Lite, nothing else. When she came to visit last week, I had just purchased two 12 packs of ML. She arrived at dinner time on Saturday. She had a beer and we had dinner. Then we went out with friends to a bar and i noticed that she had at least two more tall beers. We came home and I went to bed.

The next morning, we went to a football game that started early with a tailgate. I don’t know if she drank there, but at the football game she had a few more beers. Then we stopped at a local restaurant on the way home and she had at least two more.

We came home and I went to bed. When I woke in the morning, twenty one of the beers I bought were gone and she was the only one drinking them. That means that over the course of two nights, starting from when I went to bed till she went to sleep, she stayed up and drank while watching the TV and consumed twenty one beers.

Today, I returned from work to find that there was a new six pack of beer in the fridge. So, as I am writing this, there are nine beers in the fridge and she and my husband are out at a bar drinking beer and playing darts. I have no idea what to do or how to brooch the subject. Is there any question as to her having a problem? I can’t imagine how she drinks that much and doesn’t get drunk!

Im an alcoholic im in the verge of loosing everything meaning my marriage and kids - and maybe much more …i need help to stop this from falling apart -i have been trying to quit drinking and i even promised my kids id quit but broke that promise to them. my wife is now ready to leave me but willing to let me try again - i need to quit and dont know what help is out there other than AA and my deciding to stop drinking. anyone have any suggestions?

My ex-husband was an alcoholic. He was a drinker when I met him, however his drinking became worse and worse. There was always a reason he had to drink - stress or work. He would say he would quite once he got through the drama of the moment. That didn’t happen.

In my experience the only person who can declare a person an alcoholic is the person in question. Even after seeing people come to that conclusion after varied amounts of drinking, they still struggle with the allergy aspect and abstinence as a lifelong condition. Observing folks from all walks of life affected by alcohol in my 22 years of recovery, I have a front row seat to people reaching that turning point.
Unfortunately in reaching that point alot of damage is done to friends and family but thanks to the healing power of programs available for family recovery the pain of reaching that point is worth the risk. Prayer works wonders during this trying time.