Raging Alcoholic
I assume alcoholism or problem drinking is affecting you in someway. A way you really aren’t happy about.
We’re here to give you information and access to resources. Following are a couple of facts about the problem.
- It affects about 1 out of 13 adults in the United States.
- Most studies say that over 50% of adults report having one or more close family members affected by the problem.
- That 2/3 of Americans drink but, 10% of those who drink, drink over 50% of the alcohol.
- That every problem drinker is expected to significantly impact at least 4 or 5 people.
There aren’t a lot of us but, we create some serious problems.
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Don’t worry. I’m not here to brow beat you.
It’s your life. I strongly believe you should conduct it the way you see fit. (As long as your not hurting other people.)
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Some of the information I hope to provide.
How alcoholism has three stages and its progression. Then there’s problem, heavy, social, moderate, and a lot more kinds of drinking.
Who knows where you’re at on that sliding scale. You probably don’t. I certainly don’t. There is information here for you on that.
Even if you do have a problem, maybe it’s not that bad, Maybe its still doing more good than harm.
There is a section for self assessment. To help you get a better idea about what’s happening.
Like I said, this site is just about information and options. I drank for years knowing I had a problem.
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Some more information covered is how too much alcohol can affect the body.
Also the:
- social
- financial
- and sometimes legal costs of being a drunk.
Treatment methods from inpatient to outpatient and abstinence to moderation. Even harm reduction.(Contact information provided.)
Like I said. This site doesn’t make judgements.
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If you happen to be looking at this because someone else’s drinking has you concerned. I hope this site will give you some insight into what’s going on with them.
It’s hard to watch someone you love destroying themselves. Let alone put up with their crap.
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There are sections on how this problem affects society, it’s cost in the work place, and how it can affect the family and friends of the person doing it.
Even useful information for the employer of a problem drinker.
There are all kinds of links and contact information for free help.
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For the drinker this problem is very personal. It’s wise to use whatever works best for you.
So use what you can and forget the rest.
Not everyone is in denial or going to wind up living in the streets. You are who you are. We’re here to try and help you get to where you want to be. Not to where somebody else thinks you should be.
Being Aware of your BAC
Understanding one’s body and how alcohol has an effect on it is very important. If you’re planning on drinking alcohol you ought to understand what BAC is coupled with exactly why this number can make the difference between staying a law abiding person and breaking the law, and even worse it could possibly mean the difference between living and dying!
Blood Alcohol Concentration – What exactly is it?
BAC is exactly what it sounds like – blood-alcohol-concentration. In layman’s terms, whenever one drinks alcohol based drinks, the alcohol is absorbed into the human body. Obviously whenever you consume more, more alcohol is put in your blood stream, increasing your blood alcohol concentration. Numerically, this number is the parts of alcohol per total parts of blood. Practically, it’s a way of measuring inebriation. All over the United States, a woman or man is lawfully drunk if or when their BAC is greater than .08% when driving a motor vehicle or while in public.
Would you think it is a high or low figure? It might may seem that only a tenth of one percent should be tiny. Unfortunately, a blood alcohol concentration of greater than .20 – a fifth of a single percent, can be lethal!
3 Variables Affect Blood Alcohol Concentration
The initial factor to recognize when examining blood alcohol concentration is body mass. Naturally, the heavier the individual, the more tissue mass and therefore blood, the more alcohol that is absorbed and still maintain the same blood alcohol concentration as a lighter individual drinking less.
The 2nd factor, every bit as fundamental as the first, is how much alcohol is consumed. You might have been told that most traditional beverages have the same amount of alcohol in them (12 oz. Beer, 5 oz. Glass of wine, 1.5 oz – 1 shot of hard alcohol). Each one of these drinks has approximately .60 ounces of alcohol apiece. When you are drinking alcohol away from your home it is advised to cautiously observe your hard alcohol drinks because night clubs and dining establishments are famous for being “heavy handed.”
The 3rd and just as vital issue is time. Rationally, the more you consume in a shorter time period the greater your blood-alcohol-concentration will be.
The Human Body’s Capability to Dispose of Harmful Toxins!
For those who didn’t know, alcohol is toxic to the your body. Mercifully for those who consume alcohol, the human body is great at getting rid of toxic compounds from the system and alcohol is not an exception.
Approximately 10% of the alcohol absorbed within your body is expelled by way of sweating, respiration and urine, the remainder has to be broken down internally. It is the purpose of the liver to detoxify the rest. The liver can remove approximately half an ounce of alcohol per hour – a tad less than a single ordinary drink. Don’t forget it takes as much as 40 minutes after the alcohol is actually consumed for it to become completely assimilated into your system. If the normal rate of elimination is .015% every hour, even at the lawful constraint of.08%, it should take the human body in excess of five hours to remove all of it.
Obviously, if you have liver problems or another impairment this can take even longer.
Ten Driving While Intoxicated Truths To Keep A Person Sober whenever behind the wheel
The facts pertaining to drunk driving are so terrible and alarming that simply to comprehend them will on it’s own instill a degree of sobriety in us as well as a determination to do more than merely watch helplessly while scores of men and women are wiped out or injured each year. You can actually help save a life today by simply reading the following figures, understanding the seriousness of the problem and by sharing this information sensibly with anyone of you who actually may be in the position to render aid.
1) One person is wounded every single minute in a drinking and driving crash. That’s in excess of one half of a million individuals this year.
2) One out of three 13-year old kids drinks alcohol.
3) Each and every adult in the United Stateswill pay $500 per annum because of intoxicated driving.
4) Children that begin alocohol consumption young are seven times more apt to be involved in a driving while intoxicated crash.
5) One person will perish every fifty minutes in a driving drunk crash in the U.S… That’s 10,839 individuals a year.
6) More teens perish in automobile accidents than from any other cause and one out of three of those accidents are due to drunk driving. The seriousness of the accidents elevates with the involvement of alcohol–2% property damage, 4% physical trauma, 22% loss of life.
7) Six thousand individuals perish each and every year as a result of teenaged alocohol consumption, this is greater than all of the other outlawed drugs grouped together. More males than females are involved–26% male teenagers compared to 13% female teens. Alcohol consumption makes it much less likely that these young people will be wearing safety belts–of those who were killed from a driving intoxicated wreck, 73% weren’t wearing safety belts.
8) High school pupils which consume alcohol or other prohibited drugs are 5 times more apt to feel that good grades won’t be very important and drop totally out of school.
9) 1 in 3 of us will be involved in an intoxicated driving incident in the course of our life-time.
10) The average chronic inebriated motorist has driven inebriated 80 times before he’s busted for the first time. These kinds of traffic stops conclude in the identification of individuals which are suspected in additional criminal offenses.
Remember, right now it is another person’s son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister who’s killed or seriously hurt by a drunk motorist but tomorrow it may be your turn. Regardless of what you might think, you’re not immune from this threat.
