Kick the Drink Easily! by Jason Vale

Author:Jason Vale [Vale, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845907129
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Published: 2011-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

I have mentioned that the physical and psychological slavery of drug addiction is bad enough for the victims themselves but there is one area that is rarely mentioned or addressed. It is the people who suffer daily from the very harmful effects of …

Passive Drinking

We are always being told about the effects of passive smoking and frequently we hear about the crimes committed by heroin addicts, the houses broken into so they can fund their habit and the drug related shootings. But what about the daily misery that many people suffer as a result of passive drinking?

The late Roy Castle highlighted the effects of passive smoking. He contracted lung cancer as a direct result of other people’s smoke. I am here to highlight the effects of a new phenomenon, one which causes more harm than passive smoking ever has done or ever will do and it’s passive drinking. The sad truth is that there is hardly a single person who hasn’t suffered or isn’t suffering right now from the very dangerous consequences of passive drinking. This is the harm caused to someone as a direct result of another’s drinking.

We often judge the person who drinks from morning till night on the harm they inflict on their family and others around them. There are support groups set up for the families who fall victim to passive drinking; the families who live with what society has labelled ‘an alcoholic.’ However, what we often fail to realise is the effect that all drinking has on other people. This includes the beatings, divorces, violence, neglect, the emotional as well as the physical hurt, sexual abuse, suicides, murders, stabbings, mood swings, outbursts, arguments, unwanted pregnancies, financial ruin, not to mention the pain, anguish and misery all caused by the effects of passive drinking which are second to none.

I once treated a young man for alcohol addiction. He had also been sold the idea that he was an alcoholic and was desperate to stop drinking. One of his reasons for wanting to quit was that he had beaten up his own father while under the influence only a few weeks earlier. He could hardly recall the incident and clearly would never have done it had he not been drinking. The reason for this was that it just wasn’t him. He had been ‘under the influence’ of something that was controlling what he did and what he said. He was due to appear in court three days before Christmas. His father was not drinking but had suffered at the hands of somebody who had been – his own son. Not only had he suffered the physical harm but also the emotional hurt caused by his child because he was a victim of passive drinking.

A teenage boy woke up to find his best friend lying next to him in a pool of blood. He had stabbed him the night before but could not recall a thing. The boy was just eighteen at the time and had only been on a lads’ night out.

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