Alcoholism

Alcoholism

Alcoholism, what is alcoholism? Dictionary defines alcoholism as "a chronic disorder characterized by dependence on alcohol", but is that all there is to alcoholism? The answer is no. Alcohol can destroy a person completely and also people around the person that alcohol is destroying. Alcohol can harm a person emotionally, physically, and socially. There is a lot more to alcoholism than a disorder of dependence on alcohol, alcohol is also a dangerous weapon that can take away the live of anyone fallen to it.

Alcohol could do much more than a person thinks it can. Research shows that women drinking alcohol as little as one drink per day boosted their risk of having cancer of the breast, liver, rectum, throat, mouth, and esophagus. Other studies done by researchers show that alcohol and heart health has a positive relationship. A group of scientists rated alcohol the most harmful overall and almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco. Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs says the "Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol". Based on the results from the analysis made on alcohol by the scientist, most scientists agreed that alcohol is a very harmful drug, but health is not the only thing that alcohol ruins. Alcohol also tears apart relations. Many psychological and sociological studies have shown that people with alcohol issues are more likely to divorce than sober couples. Alcohol also has an effect on domestic violence, legal disputes, financial struggles, unemployment and sexual performance issues. As we see, the results shown by the studies show way more in alcohol than just a chronic disorder characterized by dependence on alcohol, it is one of the deadliest drug that people experience.

My mother was born into a family of seven kids, four sisters and three brothers, all of them got married early to help out the family's economic problem. Because of that none of them got to pick their marriage couple closely, they didn't date and form a healthy relationship, all the guy needed to do was to pay the mother of the girl side's family then pick the girl that he wanted to marry, and that same event fell upon my fourth aunt. My aunt was very excited when she found out she was getting married. She thought she would be able to help out the family situation and have a good life after marriage, but she did not have a clue what she was getting herself into.

My uncle was an alcoholic before he married my aunt, and still is after paying my grandma the money for the marriage of my fourth aunt. He drank so much he was wasted mostly everyday of his life ever since he started drinking, and he didn't even thought about marrying a person until he found out there was no way he could take care of himself. Yes, he didn't marry because he wanted to be married; He married because he needed a person to clean up the mess he left behind while he was drunk. After my aunt found out about this she immediately went to my grandma and told her she would not marry him, but the problem was the money was already handed in to my grandma; therefore, my grandma told my uncle about it and told him to find a solution himself. The solution that he found for his way out was a simple lie. He promised my aunt to never drink again, he swore to god that he would never touch a drop of alcohol after their marriage. Maybe he felt the pressure on him at the moment he made his promise to my aunt; the pressure might have been the key factor that caused him to swear that promise, but now that wedding's over and the pressure's gone, and so is the promise.

One winter night, my uncle rampaged his way into the house smacking and kicking everything in sight. The sound of furniture breaking woke up my aunt and the two children, my aunt ran downstairs into the kitchen full of the smell of alcohol, and spotted my uncle laying there on the floor like a dead dog. My aunt ran over to him and started throwing words at him as the kids watched in fear just behind the kitchen doors. Suddenly,