Robert Nixon used to consume alcoholic drinks once in a while. Slowly, he started to drink each day more and things got worse. His behavior was becoming unpredictable. He tells of one incident in a club on a Sunday afternoon when a fight broke out and he and his friends were involved. Minutes later he was outside being questioned by the police and spent several hours at the police station. He was released but in spite of this, the next day he was drinking at his favorite bar again. What kind of person goes everyday desperate for a drink everyday?. Now he is alone, a desperate alcoholic.
Discussion questions for your comment:
what is the difference between a habit and an alcoholic?
Which types of addictions are most socially acceptable than others? Why?
Do you think that they are certain types of personality who are more likely to become addicts?
How can a person who is addicted be treated by his/family, friends, co-workers or partners? Give possible solutions.
1. The habit is something you can handle, and you can do and stop doing it without any problem, while alcoholism is a disease and addiction.
ResponderEliminar2. The most accepted are: addiction to shopping, cell phones, television, internet, computer, video games, music, eating nails, food, sports, money, movies. And rejected by society are: addiction to alcohol, drugs, prostitution, rapes, robberies, murders... among other addictions that affect society.
3. yes, because there are some people who spend as depressed, stressed, they feel rejected by the people around you who do not seek help but sink more and more and come to addictions as an escape, they think that's what easier for them.
4. Everyone should treat a person addicted like the rest without rejecting them or hurt them emotionally, they must understand all the time, support them in everyone of his hard times, having them provide lots of love and patience.
Daniela Azofeifa Jiménez 10-6
1.Well an alcoholic you can´t handle its a illness and a habit it´s something you can govern, you can stop doing that.
ResponderEliminar2.The most accepted are: Addictions to: computers, cellphones, video games, internet, televison, food, movies, books. And others addictions, for example: to alcohol, drugs, prostitution.. but this addictions affected seriously the population.
3.Yes, well depence of the type of person, and thier personality, because some people are very depressed and unhappy and think that thier life is not good for anything so they think that the addictions its the best for their, and on other hand some people is very happy and positive person and enjoy their life.
4.First of all, everyone have to support the person addicted, have to be patience, provide love, to be with the person addicted and took with him about the problem and how he/she can to overcome the addicton.
Michelle Morales Ramirez 10-6 (:
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ResponderEliminar1-The difference between a habit and an addiction, the way you can control it, the fact that you can decide to do it or not, I’m use to go on twitter and facebook every day but I don´t NEED to, if I want or if I forget it I just don´t do it.
ResponderEliminar2-The most socially accepted addictions i think that the smoking and drinking, in fact those adicctions are imposed by society, that´s why they are so accepted.
3-Yes there are some personalities more… obsessive and more dependent (kind of like mine) so is easier to become an addict.
4-The acceptance and help from the family and friends are crucial in the recovery process; the affected person needs some to lean on so he/she needs all the possible help.
Alvaro Chaves Alfaro 10-6
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ResponderEliminar(1)Well first, I think the difference between an habit and an alcoholic is the way you can control it, and the way you have a balance of things. The alcoholism is an incurable disease that even if treatment is given, the person will never be heal. So if it is an habit you can stop doing it but if it is an alcoholic the person will never can't stop doing that. (2) Also there are so many habits the people accept, I think the most accepted are addictions to: cell phones,video games, TV shows, internet... and even; the people see as a good way, people who drink liquor and smoke cigarrettes, I guess the reason why these habits are seen in a good way is because the society think that these things not affect us greatly, but they are wrong because in fact these things are bad for us but now is like a very comun habit and it is hard to stop it.(3)I think there are so many types of personalities that are more likely to become addicts, because all the people have different feelings and thoughts, some people feel like depressed and they think that they are not happy, so they use these addictions like a way to escape to the world, they think that they feel better doing this, but it doesn't. (4)The family is very important in this process, they always have to be with the addict, they must give him/her love and the addict has to feel good and loved by the family. Also all the people who is around him/her have to be patient and understanding, and most important they have to give him/her advices and seek professional help.
ResponderEliminarMarco Guie Salazar 10-6
1)A habit is something you can do if you want or not, and it isn't an addiction,that you can't handle.Alcholisim is an addiction,you cannot control it.
ResponderEliminar2)The most acceptable addictions are: to the computer,to the T.V,shopping,to cellphones,food,surgeries...
They are acceptable because they don't cause serious problems like others.
3)Yes,because there're very sensitive people that needs to be consolated by something,so they use drugs or other kinds of adicctions.
4)Family and friends should treat the addicted with respect,not making fun of he/she,treat him like the others,give him love and support.People should give them advices and distract them from their addiction.
Daniela Villalobos Palma 10-6
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ResponderEliminar1) I think the difference between habit and alcoholism is that a habit is something you can control and not do more, but alcoholism is now a seriously illness and is very difficult to leave and the person would need specialist help to make this disease.
ResponderEliminar2) The types of addictions those are most acceptable that others are: Go to shopping, Televisions, different music listen devices, Buy computers, these addictions are most acceptable because they do not cause a lot of damages.
3) if it's because many people feel rejected by those around them, and enter a degree of depression and seek solace in drugs, alcoholic beverages and other harmful products and gradually as they feel better with them.
4) The people closest to the addict Person must be with them to give support and love, of course good advice to try to get out of any addiction you have.
Jeffry Méndez Chavarria 10-6
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ResponderEliminar1)An habit is something that you do sometimes and you can control it,an addiction is when you do something desesperatly all the time and you don't realize.
ResponderEliminar2)The adicctions more acceptable are the onces that don't affect the society or the other persons like addiction to cellphones,food,video games,T.V... that are very commun these days.
3)Yes because some people can control more what they do and a lot of persons have a stronger personality so they don't need to have addictions to feel beeter.
4)The family and friends of the addict have to give him or she love but also they have to search proffesional help.
Mary Benavides Rodriguez 10-6
-The difference between a habit and an alcoholic is that the first one is something we do frecuantly.The frecuancy is choosed by each person,for example:wash your teeth is a good habit an each person choose wash them 2 or 3 times a day.In difference an alcoholic is considered by the doctors a sickness or disease.An alcoholic person can not control the times he wants to drink,inclusive alcoholics lose all: lose the family ,lose the job,lose the car and they selves.
ResponderEliminar-Addictions most socially aceptables are addictions to internet,cell phones,videogames,food and shops.I think,these addictions are acptables because,they are too frecuantly and people do not look them bad.
-Yes,I think people that have a strange or depressed personalities are more likely to become an addicts.I think too,the people who have a stressed jobs or too hardlies,they are more likely to become an adddict because they want to have a "relaxed time".
-Family has to treat the addict person,giving him good advices,being sinceres and telling the true about his problem.Friends have to help him and they don not have to give him money.And co-workers could help if they do not invite him to a party.
1) a habit is something that you usually do and the alcoholicsm is an illness that makes the person to feel the need of getting drunk just to run out of his problems.
ResponderEliminar2) "The legal drugs" such as the cigarette and alcohol people have the wrong idea that just because they are legal they are not harmful.
3)the most common story that you are going to hear when you star talking with an addict is: "my parents weren't at home... i felt lack of love and i couldn't say no because i wanted them to keep been my friends". When people pass a hard time in their lifes they want to run away and scape just because they feel like they can't face the problems in that moment is when the drug makes the entrance .
4) An addict is wrongly treated nicely, if we star to talk about drugs in the youth the parents try to spoil the teen instead of taking the addict out of the enviromment where they are practicing the activity, the addict need a support like a psycologist and other activity to focus their frustration and energy. They need to face the reality but first of all the money has to be cut out!
what happened with robert is a common example of what could happen to anyone of us. it doesn't matter how we started , it's about when we can't go out of our addicition.
ResponderEliminarAn habit is something with do on several ocassions and you can messure your limits. an addicition is when you can't control something that somehow makes you feel good and you cant stop continue doing it.
the drugs that are 'accepted' nowadays instead of those that we think that are terrible are mostly alcohol and cigarretes and in some parts of the world, marihuana. they think that they aren't that bad because people can control it...which is a complete lie. it's truth that some people can. but no all of them. a drug is still a drug no matter if u can control it or not. it always has some effects.
Those persons who are very strong-willed and are conscious that drugs or alcohol or whatever aren't good to their bodys are very inteligent. but sometimes they fell into consuming it because of the presion of society but no all of them. scientifically speaking there are some genetic patterns that confirms that people with alcoholic pasts in their family are very likely to become addicts. but there is a huge percentage of people that have this bad habits and it's because they have a super low self-esteem and they look for a place where they can fit and they think that things like drugs can do that.
everybody around the addicted person should know that the treatment it's not easy, and that they have to have tolerance and respect, but always be there to support that person who needs it. if the really care about he or she and they see that they are starting to fall into the addiction they should stop them and look out some help for she or him.
If you are an alcoholic, you can´t stop and your body needs alcohol everyday; and, if you have an habit, you can control it and you can to leave this behavior.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion... the mobile phone, the computer, video games or some foods are addictions most socially acceptable than others because are normal for the people; and maybe, to smoke and to consume alcoholic drinks because are legal drugs in the cities.
I think... this people feel sadness, depression, fear, stress or have a lot of problems and believe that alcoholism is the solution.
A desperate alcoholic can talk with his family or friends about his addiction, or, also, can go to clinic or hospital and to ask for help!!
1. Well I think that the difference between an habit and being alcoholic is that the habit is not necessary for the person and she or he can quit anytime that they want, but then the alcoholic is already has need for consuming alcohol at least one drink a day and needs professional help to overcome, Because it's not something that he or she can quit anytime.
ResponderEliminar2. The addiction more accepted by the society are: addiction by phone, by internet, computer and for smoking, video games, and the TV, that's because people see that as normal, but the reality is that this is affecting so much the society, because people do not want to see this and ignores it.
3. I think so, because there are people very obsessive and very easy to fall into depression, may also can be because people want to be socially accepted and will do anything to make people take them very seriously, and these are people with no confidence and no self-esteem . Another could be that many people make these addictions an escape from reality for not see this before their eyes.
4. First of all the family has to accept that she or he has an addiction and have to make him to see that he has an addiction. One of the possible solutions to help overcome this is talking with him or her or taking him to rehab, and give all love to that person and be understandable and never refuse him.
1-I think an habit is something you are acostume to do, you can control it and stop when you want, but an alcoholic is someone that can’t stop drinking alcohol. It’s a disease.
ResponderEliminar2- For example there are people that are shopaholic, they can’t stop buying clothes. I think they have a socially acceptable addiction. It is because people don’t see it dangerous or harmful.
3- I think that if you feel alone and depressed it would be easier to become an addict because you will maybe think there you can find a solution or maybe you can forget your bad moments for a while or something like that.
4- I`m sure it is a difficult situation but it can be treated. Family and friends have to be very patient and give him a lot of support. There exists a lot of ways to treat the problem, such as psicologysts and professional help.
1- in my opinion the diference is that an habit is somenthing do you use to drink sometimes but an alcoholic is a person that drink a lot because the alcohol is a part of his life.
ResponderEliminar2-the alcoholic for example is most socially acceptable than a drogadict
3-yes, the people likes work a lot, or more stresfull than others, maybe the people like pass the time in the street, bars and drugs
4-are be treated with contempt for the others persons maybe are be discrimanated but the persons can be help his and give some atenttion maybe his can go out with this problem and made a family and progress with his life
1- For me an habit is something that the person have control for herself, something that they usually do, but this can not bring problems for the family or friends.An alcoholic for me is an adiction, something that is difficult forget.
ResponderEliminar2- For me any addiction is acceptable because this make that the person who have this, feel insecure for herselfs or himselfs and make problems in the family.
3- I think that the people who thing that the world is so bad and does not likes to be with other people they are the persons who take drugs or drink alcoholto feel more happy and secure, but the people who loves there friends and family, they do not need this because they know that the life is better if we do not take drugs.
4- If someone in my family become to be an addict i will trated him o her like i treat the other persons, but maybe with more love, happines, and pacience, because they need that to feel fine and do not think in bad decisions.
1. An habit is when people do something over and over again, like a costume but it can be control so people can decide whether or not. And an addiction is when someone does something, but it can´t be control so persons do it because the body need it.
ResponderEliminar2. Well actually every addiction is bad, but I think that the most socially acceptable can be coffee addiction or maybe it could be smoke.
3. Yes of course, because their some kind of people that drink alcohol in parties and there is a lot of people that loves parties so he/she is more likely to became addict, and there is people who drink coffee and it can be an addiction if they drink it a lot.
4. Well family, friends, co-workers or partners have to accept them a maybe look for some professional help like in a hospital or in rehab, or maybe they can be rejected by them.
Jose Pablo Rodriguez Rojas 10-6
*I think that addiction is a physical and emotional,is a dependence on a substance.
ResponderEliminar*the habit is a dependency of action.
*So the difference between addiction and habit is the habit is the psychological dependence of a situation or a drug addiction ... the dependence of physical and psychological effects of the drug.
*Drugs currently being accepted by society are the snuff and alcohol
*Unfortunately yes, because if you do not have security and have low self-esteem you can fall into the influence of others and taking drugs.
*The addicted person can only solve the problem by accepting that he is addicted and seeking help from family friends or colleagues in other cases a psychologist ... therapies where you get help and advice to overcome the problem with his addiction and how to reconnect with the other people.
*The simplest solution IS ANY TYPE OF DRUGS..and because all the drugs produce addiction!!
1- a habit is something we're used to do every day, the alcoholism is a vice that can become a illness.
ResponderEliminar2- The most accepted are such addicts to watch sports, go shopping, these are accepted by society because you are not hurting others or themselves.
Not accepted are: drugs, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and these are the ones who are punished by society for doing harm to others and themselves, also to encourage young people to enter into this kind of things
3- Of course, because there are many people who are very vulnerable to what people say, and often if something negative turn to drugs as a method to get rid and if that comes to like that person slowly going becoming an addict
4- first: his family and friends give the necessary support so that he or she does not fall more in the addiction
second: try entering a house special help for people with addiction problems
third: never stop showing the love he feels for the person with the problem
an habit is like a guy likes to drink alcohol but he just drink it somedays, an alcoholic is when a person cant live without alcohol and needs to drink it everyday in every hour.
ResponderEliminarAlcohol and cigarettes are the most acepted adictions in the society, there are other addictions like marihuana,ecstasy and methamphetamine, but they are not as acepted as the cigarettes or alcohol
the people that no have friends are more likely to become addicts because they try to have friends drinking alcohol or using drugs, for being accepted
They are tried like different persons because they have that problem and the society starts to tried them like animals and not like persons because they dont behave like one, the behavior is different because they are the whole day drunks. They should go to some therapy or find some help with their friends or a psicologist
I think that the alcohol is a problem that affect to family and it have many consequences, the alcoholism may be generated by a habit, then can started by a alcohol cup, transforming it in a habit and finish in a addiction.
ResponderEliminarIn the society, some addictions like the use cigarette are accepted by the persons, since they take it as quotidian although it has consequences, and they see it normal. Exist some personalities that are more easy in be a addiction like be aggressive, not have identity and having bad friends.
The friends and relatives of a addict should try to improve their relationship, since he needs support for overcome him addiction, and other solution is that, they take him to psychologist and have the cares necessaries to improve their health.
1. I think a habit is a repeated behavior that makes a person, so it is controllable and can be left to doing, an alcoholic is a person with a disease that has no control over the limits of consumption and the use usually increases of alcohol.
ResponderEliminar2. Addiction more accepted in society is the consumer of cigarettes and alcohol as much time is consumed, there are currently cell phone addiction, video games, shopping etc.
3. Yes, because people are not sure of themselves, and believe that being addicted or be accepted to be part of a group of friends are people manipulated without thinking, just want to escape reality without confrontation.
4. Must be treated as best as possible, with patience and solidarity, which is a long and hard for the addict, so it needs to be supported by family, friends and coworkers or study.
1. A habit for me is something that you can control and that you are aware of, like all the things you do every day. Be an alcoholic is an illness and can it’s a dependence of the substance.
ResponderEliminar2. I believe that the addictions most socially acceptable probably are the ones to the computer, video games, shopping, cell phones because they don't seem dangerous to the population.
3. I believe that everything depends of the education the person gets since childhood from the family and the education centers he or she attends. So, for me if a person is taught to be careful and to don't take any negative influence in his life it won't affect him. But if is he doesn’t learn to be secure of himself and starts to be addicted he won't be able to control his impulses and would end with an illness.
4. First the person should be treated with respect and not shame, then help him to recognize the condition he is, and get professional help.
-The difference is that a habit is a daily routine, good hygienic habit are like, bad habits are lived. An alcoholic has an addiction, then it will depend on the alcohol, here's where the difference: a normal habit is something we do repeatedly but do not depend on the habit, an addiction going to depend on a substance or action.
ResponderEliminar-I think that addictions like shopping, to the TV, social networks, food, music, etc and addictions that do not depend on the substances will be more accepted by society because they are not illegal, and are not deteriorating to the human body.
-I think it certainly has nothing to do with personality, but with the thinking of each person, because when an addict begins his addiction the way they think and also how they act change, but do not know how it was really the addict before start your addiction.
-The addict has to be specially treated with love and understanding more than anything because it tries to find solutions, not explanations, then the support of family and friends is very unconditional to recover from an addiction.
1)I think the difference between a habit and an alcoholic is:
ResponderEliminarAlcoholism is a disease in which the person can´t stop drinking.
And a habit is is something that is done all the time. It´s like a custom.....
2) I believe that smoking is a social disease but here in Costa Rica is not given due importance..
Drug addiction is also a social problem and here the problem becomes larger every time...
3)yes i think that it´s easier to convince a person with a sunny personality to convince a person very very serious.....
4)A person with addiction problems should be addresed professionally by an expert and if you don´t have the financial means should be helped by his family........
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ResponderEliminarIn this century we can see young people that take the addictions as a game, as something they can control, but they don´t understand that an simple habit could become an addiction. An habit is something you make only sometimes and slowly will involve you.
ResponderEliminarWe as young people have to be careful if we drink every day. Nowadays the people see normal the cigarette and the alcoholic drinks because you can do occasionally. They don´t see the consequences.
And I think that certain people are more likely to become addicts because maybe have family with this disease and with this examples child grows imitating.
One solution is that the family and friends of this person should search professional help and treat to support of this person for everything to change for good.
1. A habit is an action that it gets used to realizing every day, and that with the time makes to us a custom do it every day unconsciously, but it is possible to control. The alcoholic person is the one that presents initially a habit of consuming alcoholic drinks but with the time an addiction to turn, and in many cases it is not possible to control this desire to take. 2. The most acceptable addictions are: the alcoholism, cell phone, computer, internet , video games and television. And others are: drugs, pornography, food, and shopping. Because the persons the free one thinks about a way, which does that we see many people of these addictions as normal in our lives and us we do not realize of the problems that it can bring. 3. Yes. because every person has his own life style and his personality, for example if we belong to the weak persons to say NOT in some situation that we know that it is not suitable for myself, and if we are of the type of persons that we can take correct decisions for more difficult that they are, but knowing that it is the better thing for us, at the time it depends on every person. 4. We must know the problem that this person has, to be able to treat his adequately, but without rejecting it never, for the opposite, must do that the person feels completely supported by that we surround it.
ResponderEliminarDaniela Zúñiga Zárate
for me the difference between a habit or vice, a habit is something good that maybe ust do or you can call it custom but also a vice is something to be limits, then it's hard to stop so called service For me a vice that is acceptable would be like wanting to be a better person in life and wanting to achieve goals and also little things like candy etc ... and me because they are more acceptable is because there are serious things like: addiction to drugs or as stated in the text of the alcohol, if I think the personality types influence because if a person is an example not have any friends going to find something to chew on and look as easy as (vice). A person must be attended by her family with love, affection, you understand, that help to overcome that by as soon as possible back into the person that this family wants but with better perspectives of life ... . that's my comment =)
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