Alcoholism Addiction Treatment

Seriously, I know everyone is going to throw a lot of examples about prohibition or whatever.

But think about seriously… tobacco isn’t like alcohol, it isn’t like heroin – people don’t get “highs” from tobacco, people don’t need cigarettes to have a good time.

There are not going to be these underground cigarette bars that people go to. Simply because addiction to cigarette is purely environment based.

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ok i have been dating mike for 5 months now. i have a little girl, her father doesnt know her l. im a single mom.. so the first thing i have always looked first before getting in a relationship is if the guy likes my lil girl. and how much patience he has with her. she is my number one priority ,so far he has done great. my lil girl loves him. and i can tell he loves her as well.i already had the chance to meet his family and had fun together. the problem here is that hes addicted to marijuana, and its starting to drink alcohol more often. he goes to school, .i love spending time with him…. i dont trust him though. so i always think hes doing something bad when im not there,he doesnt hide his cell phone from me.. he gave me a key from his house, and gave me his password for facebook. the reason why i dont trust him is that the first month that we started dating after we met 4 days later. this girl texted me and said he was sleeping with her.. so i confronted that to him and he said yes that it was true, and that he was also having sex with his neighbor…., he said he was really sorry .he he went after me. we started dating jan 8. so he was cheating on me for that whole jan month. and its funny cuz he tells his friends that he was never cheating on me, that we started dating feb 3. he even tells me that we started dating on feb 3, but i know it was jan 8 . hes fooling himself cuz we celebrate every 8 of the month,i just think he tells me this so he wont feel bad for what he did with the cheating, maybe? after that i havent seen anything bad from him, with girls, i ive seen text of girls, but nothing to be worried about . he doesnt go to partys or clubs, he just likes to kick it in his house ..the neighbor he was having sex the first month we dated doesnt live there anymore. he wants me to give him my trust back , but its very hard….i dont know if im exagerating with him and when he gets me mad i always scream and tell him why is he cheating on me, even though i dont have evidence that he is cheating on me….i tell him every day” what girl did u bring,” etc, and stuff like that. ive tried to trust him, it just seems hard, because hes addicted to marijuana like i said at the beginning. hes a very calm person. when hes high hes calm too..his mood doesnt change from when hes out of drugs,hes the same person,its just that when he gets high hes tired.he has made me cry alot of times for the fact that i come by surprise in the morning to his house and the nights before he dranks i beg him not to drink alcohol, and i see lots of bottles of beer. when i get there, and his sleeping at 10 am.so i get there pissed off cuz i c his cell phone, and all the messages where about pills, and marijuana , alcohol, and ciggaretes. especially a day he had to go to school..i told him its ok for him to drink with his friends like on the weekends but hes trying to make it an everyday thing. so those things make me not trust him, and not believe when he tells me hes not cheating anymore…i know hes a good guy after all. he does care about us my daughter and i,we cook together for his friends, he says he wants to be with me for a long time, i do too.i love him very much, its just that addiction, that im worried about.he has told me that we should start going to church, but we havent yet.i would love that. so yesterday i broke up with him. and i dont know if i should give him some time to think about what hes doing,and give myself a chance to learn how to trust him, and c if he could do something about his addiction.? i really want him back, i was the one that broke up. i saw his pain in his face.. what should i doo,? please help me.

When I was 18 I got my first DUI when I was at the University Of Delaware Campus to visit friends, at that time I was living in Pennsylvania, and I still do! I am now 21 and I have gotten 4 underages since (all in the state of Pennsylvania) and havent had my license for about 2 years and I wont be eligible until 07-24-2011! I have never driven on a suspended license, so I’ve been a good boy, ontop of the fact that I have been clean and sober for 1 year and eight months! I have to live with a lot of things on a daily day basis! I hurt my family, my education, but worst of all, I hurt myself in my addiction, and I am and have been done with drugs and alcohol! I am currently awaiting discharge from a program called drug court, which is the biggest accomplishment in my life to date. The Chester County Drug Court Treatment Staff has been wonderful and I’d like to believe that I have been a wonderful success story in their eyes! There’s just one thing missing, I don’t have my license until late 2011! I talked to PENNDOT and they said no because this is a series of repeat offenses! Is this true? Is there NOTHING that can be done? Can I move after Drug Court? I walk 40 minutes then take two buses just to get to work everyday. Just the one way. I want to go to school so badly, but I can’t because the trip of getting to work and back alone is a shift for the average worker. I’ve gone so long now and I can go longer, but I honestly don’t want to, because I want to be able to go to school and become a dictrict manager for my company! Somebody please give me advice!

I see alcoholism creating big problems in her life, so providing her with alcohol seems like I’m supporting her habit. But the fact is, no matter how much I would love to see her go to rehab and start afresh, I know such a decision would have to come from her side. So I tend to think the right thing to do is to accept her as she is while she’s our guest and just hope that friendship, love and support may, over time, give her the strength she needs to take a step towards overcoming her addiction.

Amy Winehouse’s father-in law says fans should stop buying her records to force the singer to seek help for what he called a drug addiction.

Giles Fielder-Civil said he believed Winehouse and his son, Blake Fielder-Civil, had used cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin and were in “abject denial” about their problem.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3531658

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I never drank alcohol in my life till lately , one of my friends asked me to pick up some beer for him so I thought that now I have bought it then I might as well just taste it to , I had one can and nothing happened , I didn’t get drunk or anything , I tried a second beer and nothing happened too , despite the fact that alcohol level in that beer was 5% . Then I went to the liquor store which is about 2 hours away from where I live and picked up a small bottle of Chivas Regal Scotch , I drank about 3 quarters of it in one day then I had the remaining in the next day , after two days I felt the urge to go all the way to the distant liquor store and I acted accordingly , I went there and picked up three bottles of scotch (Red Label ) and I kept them under my bed , I had two drinks from one of these bottles ? What do you think ? Am I on the road of being alcoholic? or it’s just a new experience for me and it’ll go away ? Should I flush these bottles down the drain and never touch scotch again? I like to drink sometimes but I fear addiction , I don’t wanna be an alcoholic , I like to drink responsibly without getting wasted …so what should I do guys ?
Additional Info : I am 25 going on 26

Okay, so here’s the deal… My fiancee has a sibling who is getting really heavy into drugs (they’ve been into alcohol for a long time and it’s already ruined their ability to socialize properly — they’re almost always deceptive, manipulative, and conniving).

My fiancee and I are around this sibling quiet a bit, and frankly its maddening. They’re in collage right now, so I know some things are to be expected as far as youthful stupidy is concerned, but this has gotten out of hand. They’re smoking marijuana up to 5 times a day and having crazy drunken pot parties that last all night. And while the partying isn’t something new — the drug abuse is, and it’s all the fault of some new romance who brought the bad habits in with them.

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I already asked this, but it didn’t show up the first time:

Unlike alcohol and cigarettes it has very little health drawbacks. In fact, it has more benefits associated with it. Is it still considered an intoxicating substance?

Back in high school all the AP/Gifted students (which are the top of the top grade wise) all smoked weed. I went to a competitive high school too, we were top educational-wise in the state. Still, it’s slightly ironic because you wouldn’t think the smartest kids would be smoking weed, but the majority did. It also aided them in helping them focus and relax.

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You don’t have to approve of using marijuana to get “high”, but please hear me out.
How can pot be banned when alcohol and tobacco are perfectly legal? I can ask this a million times but never get a straight answer, they’re just complete and utter bullshit.
Gateway Theory: Marijuana leads to hard drugs.
My reply: The word “gateway” drug is so empty in meaning that its useless as anything but propaganda. Correlation does not equal causation. Its the most widely available illegal drug. I wonder how many of those meth addicts had drank alcohol, smoked tobacco, or tried prescription meds.
Societal Theory: Alcohol and Tobacco are accepted parts of our society making them fundamentally different from marijuana.
My reply to that: Precedent is no excuse for bad policy, slavery and child-labor were once accepted parts of our society, along with opium-laced baby medicines.
Enough problems already theory: Alcohol and Tobacco are bad enough, so why add to the problems?
Fact: Marijuana is by far the least harmful of the three. I challenge anyone who disagrees with me to do some research and to cite their RELIABLE sources otherwise we’ll all know that you’re pulling shit out of your ass. The main difference between marijuana and alcohol other than alcohol being more fatal to your health is the legal status. It’s not the mind effecting part that cause marijuana and alcohol to differ, because they both effect the mind. Also, millions of Americans smoke marijuana regularly. And most marijuana related problems stem from the prohibition against it, not its use.
One thing I need to add, yes its true that marijuana has five times as much tar than a normal cigarette but most people don’t smoke anywhere near as much marijuana as they do tobacco. Beyond that, smoking is far from the only means of ingestion. Vaporizing or cooking removes that risk. Also, this is for those of you who want to give me bullshit answers. Marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco all mess with the brain! Why do you think smokers smoke? A. because it gives them a high introducing nicotine and other chemicals to the brain, and B, the chemicals from the nicotine and smoke cause a chemical reaction in the brain, and the brain produces serotonin and other happy chemicals. Oh, and C, the mechanism of addiction, causing your brain to be dependent on the nicotine.
Do you agree or disagree with the information I have just showed you? Why or why not?
@metropol – I see hunting is one of your specialties, calling marijuana smokers apathetic and lazy losers is like me calling hunters hillbillies with no respect that kill poor defenseless animals

Im thinking wouldnt it just be smarter to make any drug legal for people over the age of 21? I know kids shouldnt be able to use stuff like cocaine and heroin because they dont have the mental ability to judge consequences from drugs or the willpower to stay off them.

But do people understand that the reason people say drugs are so “bad” is because they make your ass go broke so fast? I mean if people maybe didnt go broke from doing hard drugs, wouldnt that probably lead to re-habilitation faster? Instead people have too sit in an abandonded house with a needle in their arm with nothing, why would anyone even WANT to rehabilitate if they have no material possesions.
In reality it costs like $1 to make a pound of heroin or cocaine which would be enough to supply an addict for say… a year? And can people use their freaking heads? The reason their is so much CRIME is because drug addicts STEAL to support their addictive habbit. THIS WOULDNT HAPPEN IF DRUGS WERE DIRT-CHEAP!!!

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