What Are the Effects of Alcoholism to a Family?
Alcoholism is a terrible debilitating disease that affects people of all ages and from every race and gender. Alcoholics come in all shapes, sizes and occupations too. Doctors, Lawyers, Ships Captains, Commercial Airline Pilots and just about any other occupation you can imagine have alcoholics in their midst. But what is it that makes them susceptible to alcohol? Why are they addicted to it in the first place? Good question. Let’s look into this a bit further. Researcher’s have looked at alcohol from many different angles over the years and, although there’s no definite answer to this problem, most believe that it comes from our bloodline. Somewhere in our family, at one time anyway, there was one alcoholic or possibly several alcoholics in the family. This could be from both sides of your family or just one side. It could even be a parent, which is very common. Wherever it came from, you must learn to get ahold of the problem and put the bottle down before the disease progresses. Som
