can you give me one example on how alcohol and drugs destroy lives, families, and relationships?

It’s me
#1. September 14th, 2009, at 2:15 AM.

hi mary,
my step daughter moved in with us about a year ago. drugs had been destroying her life. she’s lost 2 kids and everyone in the family has turned thier backs. i am a recovering addict myself so i thought i could help her. however, in the last year i’ve grown to hate her more then i thought i could hate a person. she lies she steals and i don’t trust the lil fat girl as far as i can throw her. ive tried putting her in treatment facilities but she continues to disobey the rules and get thrown out. i’ve even tried kicking her out… however then she calls “Daddy” who drops everything to rescue his lil princess and it’s a fight between us while she steals or pops another pill. Even thou everyone has told him to stop it he just continues to rescue her.
my husband and i have always had a good strong relationship and i don’t think anyone can tear us apart however this could. i’m on pain meds because of a disease that is slowly and painfully killing me and she has stolen my pain meds several times. it’s not as if i don’t hide them the only time the sneaky ass theive can get them is when i’m a sleep. she leaves again tomorrow for another rehab center and i have laid down the law if she returns without 6/8 months under her belt then i am leaving. and i wont return in 6-8 months. so this is how drugs tear a family apart.
ya know on my story. when i quit doing crack my husband now stood bye me and held me through the withdraws and all the pain. but the difference between me and her is i never lied or stole from anyone. i got a J O B to afford my habit.

Ceri
#2. September 14th, 2009, at 2:36 AM.

People die because of it.

robertparkerco
#3. September 16th, 2009, at 12:05 PM.

I am divorced from my first wife because she was strung out on drugs. What is really strange about this is its was not the drugs that killed the marriage, it was the lies that goes along with it. if she would have been able to admit her problem and get help we would have has something to work on, but all she did was blame me for everything. She was the one on drugs, she was the one who did not come home for days on end, she was the one who on Christmas eve who did not come home untill 3:30 in the morning and yes we had small children at the time. and in the end she blamed me for her problems. Like I said if it was just the drugs but it is everything that comes with the drugs.

Katrina E
#4. September 18th, 2009, at 2:00 PM.

My husband is a Alcoholic and instead of spending time at home with the kids or myself he would rather hang out with the guys around the corner. Drinking on his way home at least 3 tall boys and then sneaks it into the trash so I don’t lecture him about the what if “DUI”. Thing didn’t stop at drinking. The more he drinks the more he sweats, yuck! Lets not forget the weight gain. We had another fall out when drinking wasn’t enough and he wanted US to do some drugs to help enhance HIS sex drive. But me I have never done drugs…ever and I was devastated that he brought them into my home. He just stopped thinking about his family and beer and drugs became the number one thing in his life. These habits that so many have just take over and priorities get thrown away……..life is very depressing. Now my husband and I are in the process of a divorce because his addiction also led him to cheat! The problems are never ending.

Tiffany
#5. September 21st, 2009, at 4:36 PM.

They make people do crazy things to continue the habit. When my mom was a little girl, her sister did drugs and drank and all of that stuff. She would run away from home for days on end. Then in the middle of the night, my mom would be woken up by her parents letting her know that the police had just called and they think that they may have found her sister and they need to go identify the dead body to see if it was her. She would have to go down to the police station and look at dead girls and live girls all the time to see if it was her sister or not. She grew to resent her sister and her parents for all the stuff she was being put through. Her parents couldn’t give her and her brother the attention that they deserved, because they were constantly trying to take care of her sister. To this day, she does not speak to anyone in her family because of it. Her parents don’t really have a relationship with her sister or brother, her sister because she has stolen from them, lied to them, and put them through hell, and her brother because he feels about the same way as my mom does. None of them want anything to do with each other because they don’t want to think about or remember the bad things, and it’s easier to just stay away from each other. This stuff can really rip a family apart. Good Luck on your paper. If I can help anymore, feel free to email me.

~Jacquilyn~ Missing my Marine
#6. September 22nd, 2009, at 2:49 PM.

when i met my bf he was your all american guy. jeans and t shirt kind of guy. i got preggo and he got scared. turned into a coke head ex popping shrroming freak, hurt many people, broke hearts, lost childhood friends, dropped out 2 weekas befroe the end of senior year, went all gangster thug life idiot on me, almost decided Not to go into the marines, did the house hopping thing, wasnt there for his daughter, hung out with convicts, almost lost his life over some crack and 20 dollars, lost alot of weight, and lost me, a good loving woman, for a long period of time. All i gotta say is THANK GOD FOR THE MARINE CORPS! he would have been dead by now if he decided not to go….