Although I've never had a personal problem with alcohol, my father died, young, as an untreated alcoholic. I've recently been interviewing several recovered drinkers. These are people who have been abstinent for 3-17 years. Will just tell you that it's been a great experience ... a learning experience ... a humbling journey. I feel honored to have listened to their personal stories of recovery. I now have them all, condensed and edited ... highlighting the key points ... on what I think is a tremendously powerful CD. Will be giving it away to hospital patients and to doctors offices. I feel GREAT about this project ... really terrific.
Best to all, C.C.
Alcoholism - Humbling Experience
Started by
calmcookie
, Sep 01 2006 09:49 AM
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#1
Posted 01 September 2006 - 09:49 AM
#2
Posted 04 September 2006 - 10:11 AM
A federal government survey recently confirmed what residents of Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas already knew: people there drink to excess, at very early ages, well above the national average.
The survey, conducted over three years by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said south-central Wyoming led the nation with the highest rate of alcohol abuse by people age 12 and older. In Albany and Carbon counties, more than 30 percent of people under age 20 binge drink — 50 percent above the national average.
In examining behavior in 340 regions of the country, the survey found that 7 of the top 10 areas for under-age binge drinking — defined as five or more drinks at a time — were in Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota.
What I find curious about this: Video games, text messaging phones, and the internet have not become big enough sources of teen entertainment to stop kids in rural areas from getting blotto. How to keep teenagers in rural areas sufficiently distracted to prevent them from dying behind the wheel drunk out of their skulls?
Parents who think cities are poisonous influences on their kids with drugs and gangs ought to consider the threat of going too far in the other direction.
I'm thinking some day when DNA testing is really cheap and lots of genetic risk factors for drug and alcohol abuse are known parents will want to check for genetic risk factors for alcoholism before deciding to move their families out into the sticks. Given the wrong variation on alcohol dehydrogenase the prudent parent might want to consider raising their kids in a town where the local culture frowns on alcohol consumption. Anyone know which parts of America have very low levels of alcohol consumption?
www.parapundit.com
9/3/2006
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Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#3
Posted 15 September 2006 - 07:40 AM
Thanks for your comments. I've no idea where there are lower rates of alcoholism ... certainly NOT Texas! After telling a number of people about completing this CD, hard to believe how many of them started telling me their own stories of addiction, or at a minimum, about a close family member's story. I occasionally think that there are very few people unaffected by this or a similar ailment.
The REAL tragedy is that there are ways to overcome it .... but many are simply unaware of the many many options.
Best, C.C.
Edited by calmcookie, 15 September 2006 - 07:42 AM.