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Independence is correct. My daughter's first sentence was "I'll do it". She is now a 28 year old successful executive in a chemical company. She graduated high school at age 16 and is working on...

We are I think for the most part taught right and wrong. All teens should have some common sense and they really know what they should do. Its parents duty to make sure they are aware and be aware...

Not watching TV is not child abuse. It should be limited as well as the video games. My son is very limited in these activities. Instead he goes outdoors, draws, reads, does not ever get on the...

I take Chantix as well as some of the others. I have been smoke free for about a week. Occasionally I want one but it goes away almost as fast as the craving started. Good luck.

Whew. Thanks to J_9 and KP. I don't think anything happened in in-patient other than what I know. I have it from more than one sorce. I have been with my husband for years and he for one hasn't...

Yes I have worked with substance abuse.

Thank goodness finally someone who makes sense.

I am open and blunt even in person. So I have the right to agree or disagree just as you do.

Most alcoholics that are sober for a long time still seek treatment. I went to an open AA meeting with my husband last week and some have been sober over 20 years. It's a never ending disease.

He was in an inpatient type treatment. He still goes to private couselor and AA meetings. The outpatient couselor is not the one I am talking about. His inpatient treatment was what made me think....

For the one who asked the question about who he shared his information with. He shared it with other patients at the facility during group sessions. He was told by his counselor that it would all...

Just a diabetic can chose to control the disease, the alcoholic can also chose to control their disease. No similarities huh?

I like the quote about success is building a foundation with bricks thrown by others by David Brinkley... seems like a lot of bricks are being thrown with no real answers. By the way he has been...

Evidently you do not understand a thing I have been saying. I am angry that we took him to suggested facility and to quit drinking like he wanted but it was unbelievable to his counselor but not...

The brow beating comment came because the couselor assigned to him did not believe him when he told the truth. The counselor told him continually he was not telling the truth. When they interviewed...

I am proud of my husband. His addiction to alcohol is a disease. Most people can not wait to get drunk. But that is OK. If they have a disease associated with it the world thinks they should be...

So how can I help others to view alcoholism as a disease and that it should be treated as such and to help them understand they do not need to be ashamed. And thanks to both people who have written...

I do know a lot hide their drinking. But it is a disease which a lot of people are ashamed of. The alcohol in a "normal" person breaks down one way and in the alcoholics brain it breaks down...

My husband is an alcoholic. We do not hide the fact or are we ashamed of the fact. It is a disease that can not be cured but can be controlled. Just like a diabetic. It is a disease that can not...