Alcohol and the Family

Alcohol and its family are the United States alone, and there are 28 million alcohol-dependent children - of which 7 million are under 18 years of age. Every day these children experience fear of living with alcoholic parents. 40 to 50% of children with alcoholism grow and become alcoholic poison. Others suffer from eating disorders and become workaholics. Alcoholic children receive various information, contradictions, predictability, betrayal, and sometimes physical and sexual abuse from parents.

A2. Adults (adults with alcoholism) - The possibility of alcohol problems is 4 to 6 times that of the general population 1. Various families' environmental factors that contribute to this risk include alcohol-specific family impacts (simulation of parental drinking behavior, predicted alcohol development, and familial ethnic background) and alcohol-specific risk factors ( Drinking and parents' behavior if not a family society). Economic factor) status). A.3 Elderly people and poisoning are called "hidden epidemics." Because doctors can not connect alcoholism and prescription drug addiction to problems normally associated with aging, such as isolation, boredom, loss of spouse. One in six Americans over the age of 60 relying on alcohol, one third of which is caused by problems related to aging (called "late alcoholism"). 1

Alcoholism in family systems means the influence of one or more families on the situation of alcohol abuse in families and alcohol behavior in other families. Mental health experts are increasingly treating alcohol and poisoning as illnesses prospering in family systems. Families respond to alcohol with specific behavior patterns. They can continue poisoning by concealing poor results of addictive behavior. This behavior is called a dependency. Thus, alcohol is said to have an addictive disease, but families have addiction. Although poisoning is recognized as a familial disorder affecting the entire family system, "Families are often ignored and ignored in the treatment of toxic diseases." "General dependents depend on addicts to meet their needs."