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In the first three articles on children of alcoholics we started showing how alcohol abuse by parents affect children’s life both physically and emotionally. There are important consequences of drinking most of the time ignored by people simply because of lack of information and proper education since early ages.
You can read these articles here:

Insidious […]

In the first article in this series we started discussing the consequences of parental drinking to the family members. The secondary article focused on physical stress alcohol consumption by parents causes to their children.
Now it’s time to discuss how emotions from an environment where alcohol abuse takes place affect the children of alcoholics for […]

In the previous article we started mentioning some of the damages and consequences an alcoholic parent inflicts to his children. Children of alcoholics are an important population who directly suffer both physically and emotionally because of their parent’s drinking.
Let’s start looking at a first series of direct damages:

Undesired children are born due to alcohol consumption. […]

I participated to a group of Anonymous Alcoholics meeting one evening. The topic of the debate was about the troubles and the misfortunes alcohol generates to the Alcoholic himself.
That is, about the problems related to poverty, loss of job, improper qualification and limitation, the feeling of abandonment from the part of the partner or of […]

One of the popular misconceptions is that alcoholism is a vice. “The others”, while looking at an alcoholic will always say or think: this is a bad person; shame on him to drink; he should quit and become a normal person.
It’s been like this for centuries. Only modern times medical research revealed that alcoholism is […]

A “crash” course-type of reading on alcoholism and alcohol related problems designed to help you understand this disease and help yourself or your beloved ones. It is intended for a large range of readers - both licensed professionals and lay persons - all heavy, moderate, mild or NON- alcohol drinkers. A must-read text derived from […]

Alcohol is one of the most insidious drugs on earth. It builds the addiction without us even knowing it. Every glass of alcoholic beverage, be it a beer with the friends, or a cup of champagne at a festive occasion, modifies the nervous cells step by step, bit by bit, gradually increasing the appetite for […]

…it is a tragic truth we’ve seen too many times and so many times overlooked by parents when prepare their teenage children for the first party to attend.
The joyful days of youth when we started going to parties. Places and people we enjoyed and love to remember. If only at that moment someone would’ve told […]

 
Welcome to AlcoholHelp.
This page tries to bring into discussion alcohol, alcoholism, drinking related problems, addiction, and most important: help directions and solutions, alcoholism treatment methods, what works and what not.
There are numerous popular beliefs about alcohol abuse and its effects. Some are true, some are just myths, and some are so obvious that we […]