Alcohol Addiction
Teen Alcohol Abuse [K] [i] [n]
Robert Jakobsen (Kindle Edition) Recovery Network 2011-08-31
Release date: 2011-08-31
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My teenage niece lives with me, since my sister (her mom) travels abroad. My sister doesn't know about her daughter's alcohol addiction, and I don't know how I'm going to tell her. I want my niece to undergo alcohol rehab, but I haven't tried talking to her yet. What am I to do?
Well, you should start by talking to her and her mom. Get in touch with her mom and tell her about the problem you're experiencing with your niece. Have your sister talk to her daughter. Maybe then you would be able to get your niece to agree to undergoing treatment. Staging an intervention with her mother would probably prove to be more effective. If you know other sober people, such as your niece's close friends, it would be great if you can get them to participate in the intervention as well. We all know that teenagers are more likely to listen to their friends rather than relatives, so getting her friends to persuade her would be a big help.
Good luck and I hope everything goes well!
Knowing the signs of addiction can make it possible for parents to get their children into addiction treatment, like drug rehab. mental.healthguru.com
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This is for part of my GCSE, so i'd like you to be honest and serious when answering the questions. I'd like to get as many answers as possible, so please answer if you are a teenager! thankyou :)
by the way can you please copy and paste the questions, and just write your answer underneath?? thankyou :)
1) How old are you?
2) Do you drink alcohol? And if so how often? And why do you drink?
3) If you answered YES for question2, what age were you when you first drank alcohol?
3) Have you ever been drunk before? And if so about how many times?
4) If you answered YES to the above question, what age were you when you first got drunk?
5) Do you drink at home, or out with your friends?
6) Do your parents allow you to drink alcohol?
7) If you answered YES to the above question, do your parents:
A- give you small amounts of alcohol rarely so you understand how to drink sensibly.
B- give you large amounts rarely
C- give you large amounts regularly
D- let you go out with your friends and drink?
8) What is your personal opinion on teenage drinking?
9) Do your parents drink alcohol?
10) Do you have any relatives with an alcohol addiction/ alcoholism?
11) Have any of your friends ever been brought to hospital, or got into trouble because of drinking? Have you?
12) Lastly, do you think you will drink alcohol when you get older, and why?
1) How old are you?
17
2) Do you drink alcohol? And if so how often? And why do you drink?
Not really
3) If you answered YES for question2, what age were you when you first drank alcohol?
16
3) Have you ever been drunk before? And if so about how many times?
Never
4) If you answered YES to the above question, what age were you when you first got drunk?
5) Do you drink at home, or out with your friends?
w/ friends
6) Do your parents allow you to drink alcohol?
not really
7) If you answered YES to the above question, do your parents:
A- give you small amounts of alcohol rarely so you understand how to drink sensibly.
B- give you large amounts rarely
C- give you large amounts regularly
D- let you go out with your friends and drink?
8) What is your personal opinion on teenage drinking?
be smart about it
9) Do your parents drink alcohol?
sometimes
10) Do you have any relatives with an alcohol addiction/ alcoholism?
no
11) Have any of your friends ever been brought to hospital, or got into trouble because of drinking? Have you?
no && hells no
12) Lastly, do you think you will drink alcohol when you get older, and why?
yeah...self-explanatory
One of my best friends (25 years old - not me!) seems to have changed a lot when it comes to drinking alcohol. Not only does it seem hard for her to stop drinking once she's had a drink, she has also started drinking when at home by herself (usually about 2-3 times a week, around 2 glasses of wine).
Both her boyfriend and her parents have already confronted her about it, but she simply seems to belittle their concerns. We are also going through some really stressful times at grad school, so I think her behavior might be connected to that as well.
Since my dad was an alcoholic through most of my childhood and teenage years this is a very sensitive topic for me, and I don't want to overreact, but I think that she might be on her way into a full grown alcohol addiction, and would like to help her stop before it is too late.
Please answer this question in due seriousness - I am really worried. Any good advice will be greatly appreciated!
I realize this answer isn't going to help you too much, but I'm afraid it is the truth.
I have an Uncle who is an alcoholic. We tried to confront him, and his children did as well. It didn't work. I have never had this problem, but I really feel the only way she will seek help is if she recognizes it, and reaches out. I have had friends in the past that have lost their kids because of their drinking, and still made the choice to believe they didn't have a problem. There really is nothing you can do but talk to her, and even then she will probably dismiss this and feel you rare being paranoid. I'm sorry but in my personal experience it has never worked, until they realize their life is falling apart and the alcohol is the problem not the solution.
btw my Uncle did recognize this, he lost his job, house, wife, and his children are not on speaking terms with him. When he ran out of income to buy the alcohol, he reached out. He hasn't touched it for 5 days now, which is a start! He has realized now he has a problem which is an even bigger start!
Maybe talk to your father, and see what he suggest. If he went through this and is now clean he maybe able to give you some advice.
This is I know what my dear sister needs, to get out of her alcohol addiction - there is media to follow and all sorts of things.I have been fine getting her through the clearing her flat, sitting through the sign-in process, being with her youngest teenage kid - and now I feel flat and helpless. Other people are taking over her life - which I know is good for her. I know my role is to make sure her almost adult kids are ok, to make sure I am sorted out myself, and keep her financial stuff in order BUT. I am so close to my sis and I feel really disjointed. Can't even see her on Christmas Day. My sis and I were born a year apart same day - even less common than twins and we are so close. I know its all going to be good but I miss her already. Gave her a journal to record her story.
If she makes it through the program - and damn it I will do everything I can to help her hang in there it will be a year residential. It will be our first Christmas not together and our first birthday not shared together. I know it needs to be done though.
Don't worry dear. I may not really understand what you are going through but I faced the same situation like you years ago. To say goodbye to my brother was unbearable and painful for me. Many told me not to be like a little child and cry but only I knew how much it hurt. There's nothing much you can do dear. All you can do is pray for her well-being and constantly support her. Tell her that she is doing great even when there is a slight improvement. Be with her when she needs you the most. Visit her whenever you can and send her motivational notes like 'you are my champion', 'you can overcome obstacles in life' and things like that. Always include her in your prayers and never look down upon her. Most importantly, never ever judge her. Remember that:people always make mistakes; we are not perfect creatures. Accept her for who she is and let her know that she'll always be your hero. You'll do fine. Don't worry. Keep yourself occupied and YOU have to stay strong and motivated to help her through this one year. I'll be here for you. Contact me if you need to talk and cry out. My shoulders will be here for you to lean on.. Take care and good luck dear!
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Parental Attitudes and bTeen/b Substance Use
Every year for the past 14 years, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University has conducted the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse: Parents and Teens. The results of this year’s study strongly indicated that parental attitudes about substance use — their own and their children’s — significantly impacts teen substance use.
“Perhaps our most important finding from so many years of surveying teens and our other research is this: a child who gets through age 21 without smoking, using drugs or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so,” CASA researchers stated. “And, for better or for worse, no one has greater power to influence a teen’s decision whether to drink or use drugs than his parents.”
Parental Behavior
What parents do, say and expect all matter when it comes to keeping teens from getting involved with substance use. The behaviors modeled by parents significantly affect rates of teen substance use. Researchers found that one-third of teens have seen one or both of their parents drunk, and those teens are more than twice as likely to get drunk in a typical month, three time likelier to use marijuana and three times likelier to smoke cigarettes.
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It is definitely quite popularly known that there is a problem of teen alcohol abuse in Georgia, and that is a terrible thing in itself, but what most people do not know is that the problem is much direr than it seems to be. Each year, the ages of people who are getting into alcohol abuse in Georgia are getting lower and lower. It is estimated that every eight in ten youngsters in Georgia have had their first taste of alcohol even before they have got out of their high school. Binging is also getting to a huge problem in the state. Almost every three in five youngsters in the state have participated in at least one binging session once in their entire educational lives. Binging in itself is an alarming situation. When a person binges, by Georgia’s definition, the person is having five or more drinks in a row. That is the reason why binging almost always causes the person to become inebriated and pass out. Various problems can arise out of this habit. In the short term, these binging episodes can cause problems such as accidents due to drunken driving, while in the long term, this habit is going to bring forth a whole generation of alcohol addicted people. Substance abuse resources in Georgia estimate that if a person begins an alcohol habit before they are eighteen years of age, they have four times as many chances of getting into a hardcore alcohol addiction as if they begin the habit after they have crossed twenty five years of the life. Hence, young people who enter into a binging form of alcohol abuse in Georgia are actually inviting a lifelong addiction upon themselves. A person who is hooked onto alcohol will become an addict of it soon enough, if the abuse is not checked, but what is most significant here is that the person will begin losing the sense of euphoria that the alcohol created in them during the initial periods of usage. Alcohol can lodge itself in the body so well that the person does not feel the same taste for it after some time. The euphoria that it creates begins to wane. At such a time, the person will most probably begin to consume more of the substance in order to have the same kind of effect. This is where the person converts from being an occasional drinker to being a habitual drinker and then to being a compulsive drinker. The patient now consumes alcohol not because of an urge, but because of a need to experience the same amount of high that was once attained. This is certainly a very precarious situation. If left unchecked, it can complicate into more serious things, as is clearly seen in the case of alcohol abuse in Georgia. Here, young people who are into alcohol abuse for some length of time will soon get into other forms of addiction. They will most get into addiction options that are open to them, using whichever substance they can get access to. A significant number of them will get into addictions of drugs, if they are available to them. Georgia has seen people with alcohol abuse getting into supplementary forms of addiction, most commonly those of marijuana, cocaine and sometimes even, heroin. In recent times, a problem that has been linked with teenage alcohol abuse in Georgia is the use of methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is largely considered to be a teen drug too, mostly because it is distributed clandestinely in places where the youth hang out. This drug with a slight aphrodisiacal effect is a big hit with young people. But once people get into a methamphetamine habit, there is no turning back. Methamphetamine is a highly addictive drug and it has extremely harsh withdrawal effects when a treatment is attempted. This makes the alcohol abuse much more complicated and difficult to treat.
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