Alcohol Rehab Length
Alcohol Rehab Length
When you live with an alcoholic the situation can range from instability to physical abuse. At the least you will constantly be on edge because the alcoholic you live with is so unpredictable. You don’t know what to expect. You don’t know if the alcoholic will come home drunk or if he or she will come home at all. The one thing you do know is counting on an alcoholic is not a good idea. And living with an alcoholic is very taxing on the non-drinker because it is so all-consuming and stressful, and wears tremendously on your self esteem. If you live with an alcoholic for any length of time, chances are you don’t have your own life anymore.
The person living with the alcoholic needs to understand that an alcoholic with a true addiction to alcohol is unable to stop drinking because of a physical and psychological addiction. This is very real and makes alcohol a formidable adversary. The alcohol is running the show, not the drinker and this is what normal people don’t grasp. Alcoholism is chronic, meaning it never goes away. Even when an alcoholic stops drinking for good, it still lurks in the background somewhere. In spite of that, with help, many drinkers can successfully stop.
In A.A. literature there is a statement that people view the alcoholic with mingled pity and contempt. The assumption by normal people is that alcoholism is a moral deficiency or weakness of character. Closer to the truth is alcoholism is probably genetic, and combining genes with an environment that promotes alcohol, the resulting alcoholism is almost inevitable.
So here you are. You are living with an alcoholic. What are your options?
First, know the fact is that the percentage of alcoholics who recover without help is very low, probably in the single digits, and few can pull it off. In addition to that, it has been proven time after time that the alcoholic will be unable to stop drinking for you, his or her family or anyone else. They have to get help and they have to stop for themselves. Until they reach this point the drinking will continue.
If you elect to stick it out you can attend meetings for codependents in your area that exist to teach you how to stop covering for your alcoholic and how to distance yourself from your alcoholic’s behavior and get on with your life.
So when will the drinker you live with stop drinking? Getting help is always the first step.
You can stop drinking and it doesn’t have to be painful. Visit us at:
http://HowIStoppedDrinking.org
typical length of time spent in rehab for someone addicted to heroin,prescription pain pills, oxy, and pot?
yes I am doing research for a story….help! I have never done drugs/drank alcohol,or smoked,and I dont associate with ppl who do. Also if that person is dealing with depression and anxiety. Just a me thing…I need some help here…!!
Just because chooses never to do that sort of thing, does not make them a bad person! I saw what it did to other ppl,and I was smart enough never to do any of it.
thank you chianne… I applaud you for your getting off heroin. My mom was on that and I grew up with ppl in and out of our home and i walked in on my mom shooting up and she told me,when she came down,never do it. I never did. U have courage! As an adult,i have known several heroin addicts, and they tell me they can kick it, but they cant kick smoking. I heard fom my mom that of all the drugs, heroin is the hardest to kick. i applaud you!
Length of time in rehab is usually however long whoever is paying for it will continue paying.
Almost all rehabs are 12step-based and will give lip service to mental health concerns, and claim when the substances are withdrawn, the mental health symptoms will magically go away. (I suffered from depression BEFORE I started drinking, but was told repeatedly that if I quit drinking it would go away. It didn’t.)
Rehabs give a person a 28 day (or however long) start and that usually the toughest time. Away from their using friends and connections and confined make it difficult for them to get high, during that time they need to find reasons they want to stay that way, AA/NA only provide some peer pressure, no real methods or help in staying clean and sober. AA has a 5% success rate, the same as no treatment at all, if it actually did anything, it’s success rate would need to be higher than no treatment.
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