I am fully convinced now that alcoholism is the worst addiction to have.  I say this as someone who hangs out with kids who have heroin addictions each week at my drug treatment center.  Basically, I should know.My alcoholic father has one son who has struggled with drug addictions like oxycodone addictions, a daughter who is a compulsive shopper, and another one so afraid to do anything that would have her end up like us that she’s a religious-holic (is that a word?).  Dad has watched his own father die of liver cancer, seen the destruction his alcoholic rants have caused in our own family, checked a son into a drug rehab, had his own physician tell him that alcoholism is gonna kill him and still he keeps buying that 12 pack every day.

I think that alcoholics have it the worst because unlike heroin junkies society doesn’t endorse the product they’re using.  Dad gets to drive to work with billboards that say “Bacardi” and holiday commercials for beer.  Alcohol ads are in every magazine, plastered all across the Internet…it has to be hard to not drink when its literally everywhere.  For those other drug addicts out there like me just imagine if oxycodone or heroin could be bought at the 7-11 and there were ads in magazines for it with chicks wearing Santa Claus bikinis were shooting up in front of you.

I get real frustrated with my dad because he just keeps on drinking no matter what we say or what happens to our family.  I keep telling him if I can get off OCs he can get off booze, but he doesn’t see the problem as being even remotely similar.  That’s because everyone around him in magazines, TV, and film have told him that he and I are different.

But we’re not.  I wish Dad would come just one time to group at my drug treatment center.

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