Alcoholic Definition B

Who is an alcoholic? How can you treat it?

Does it have more to do with the person or more to do with the drug itself?

The answers to these questions all go into understanding what it means to be an Alcoholic. It’s interesting in our culture the stereotypical idea of an Alcoholic is a man down on his luck drinking his worries away. This image is both wrong in pigeonholing who alcoholics are and why they drink.

Yet it taps into an essential truth of most alcoholics, drinking provides an escape. When people drink to escape, their lives, their conscience, even their family that’s where alcoholism begins. It doesn’t have to be a middle aged man who lost his job however. It can be a college roommate who drinks to escape the fact that he doesn’t know where his life his life is going. Who once tried to be drunk for seventy-two straight hours because being drunk was the only time he was satisfied with his life. It could alternatively be a sorority girl who drinks to find social acceptance, but then finds out that that approach doesn’t work later in life—but can’t stop. When alcohol seems like the only escape that’s when alcoholism begins. It grows into a monster, a consuming part of life that must be satisfied. It may seem benign at first, but eventually alcoholics keep drinking even when they know they’re damage themselves and their lives. At that point it may be too late to fix the problems alcoholics are running away form in the first place.

Alcoholic Definition

Raging Alcoholic