Dealing With Alcoholics

A is for Alcoholism. In don’t think alcoholism is exactly an illness – it is more of a condition of life that we are all vulnerable to, but some more than others. My family and I have all been affected by alcohol in some way, because I have had many people in my family who are alcoholics, and I know many people personally who have problems with alcohol.
The weird thing is how similar alcoholics are and how similar there excuses are. We know that human beings are endlessly individual. Each on is unique, but when people use drugs and alcohol they become boringly and depressingly alike.
There is a very clear genetic basis for addiction, if one generation has an addict in it, as does my family, the next generation is likely to have one as well. But alcoholism is not inherited like brown yeys are: one does...