How does getting help for an alcohol addiction create a healthy community?
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at
1:41 pm
Hi there, any contributions would be very appreciated. Thanks
I don’t think you are understanding what I am meaning. I am doing a powerpoint on alcohol and the question is: “Explain why getting help for a substance creates a healthy community” so it means “How is a healthy community created when you get help for an alcohol addiction.”
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Abstaining from overconsumption of alcohol helps create a healthy body, which added up defines a healthy community.
I am related to someone who didn’t get help for his alcohol addiction and died of alcoholism a good thirty years before a normal age to die.
Here’s how his alcoholism affected the community of his family and the city that his children live in:
Grief affected the productivity of his surviving family members. Besides the time taken from work to take him to the hospital and for his funeral, time was missed for mourning and when people were at school or at work, they weren’t always able to work well.
His children were left with a parent who suffered her own alcohol and drug addiction and mental illness besides. In the year after their father’s death, their mother sent them to another community to one of their relative’s houses to live for half the year. This disrupted that family and caused a lot of friction within that house. The social services agency tried to remove the children from their mother’s care and she got them back, but within six months the household was in shambles with her being institutionalized. The children have had to go into foster care. The stress continues to stress their health and that of those who care about them.
Had their father gotten help for his addiction rather than being too stubborn and the agency’s being too short-staffed, many people would be less stressed and more healthy and the social services network would not have to serve them to the extent it does now.
Sometimes people addicted to different substances (drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc.) tend to act a little differently. Depending on the addiction, they can become abuse to friends and family. When you have abuse, there are many fights. When there are many fights, people tend to lock themselves away in their homes, and not come out into the community.
When you help someone overcome their addiction(s), the fighting lessens. When the fighting lessens, people tend to come out of their homes more and socialize with their neighbors. When you have neighbors socializing, you have block parties, back yard cook-outs and more people out taking walks.
So, that’s how getting help for someone’s alcohol addiction helps to create a healthy community.