I’m scared that my brother will go back to his old ways once he goes out of alcohol rehab. I know it’s his life to live, but being that I care so much for him, I get hurt whenever he does something that is harmful to himself. I want to know what I can do to help him continue on being sober..

I don’t know where to turn. To shorten a very long story as best as I can my 24 year old brother is a severe alcoholic, he does nothing but drink and if he doesn’t drink he has seizures. These seizures have racked up hospital bills that he will never be able to pay since he can never get a job because his problem is debilitating. I think he started drinking because he has an anxiety problem. He used to be a star baseball player and a “normal” person, but for the last five or so years has basically been ghost who has no real life and no future…it breaks my heart every time I see him. It’s killing him and ruining my family. We do not have a lot of money, but I’m willing to find a way to get it if necessary and the only detox he has ever been to was literally in the ghetto and it was a terrible situation so we don’t want him to go back there. I guess I just don’t know what to do, does anyone know how to get him help or have ever been in a smilar situation who can help?

I have epilepsy and am also an alcoholic. I used the alcohol as a way of controlling my anxiety about seizures because they’re horrifying to say the least.

I’m realizing now that the alcohol is killing me and Im up to 6-8 beers a day. I need to stop. I also have no health insurance but have seizure medications and can’t go to a public detox because I can’t afford it.

I have xanax but never mix the two. Can I ween myself off using xanax? I’m afraid of withdrawl seizures. Thanks.

would drinking it straight like from the bottle … be a good detox?? like say i drink half a cup..

i just feel like i have been very unhealthy lately like with alcohol and junk food and i want to cleanse my system out. any ideas?

Please take the time to read this and help me. It would mean soo much to me. Okay, so here are the details. I am thirteen years old and I live in Washington with my mother and my step dad. My dad lives about an hour away and I get to see him every other weekend. I have always had a better relationship with my dad, and ever since I was 7, I have wanted to live with him. Me and my dad just have personalities that get along better. I have confronted my mom about it a few times, but the answer is a definite no. She doesn’t even want to talk about it. She says that its impossible and easier for me here even though it could work out just fine over there. I know that judges take into consideration about how a child feels about their parents and things, and this is how I feel: Both my mom and my step dad are confusing people. They never encourage me, and they always find something to nag on me about and get angry about. They tell me when I get angry that I should tell them to encourage me and things, and I have! But I shouldn’t have to remind my parents to be my parents. That’s really hard. I don’t have to remind my dad, he’s proud of me no matter what. I am not exaggerating. Especially lately I have been trying to get on my parents good side, but they just seem resistant. One moment they will be nice to me and I will think, “Oh, things are going great,” but moments later I will try to talk to them and they will get mad at me for no reason. Heres an example of what I mean, this actually happened: A couple days ago, I felt nauseous and asked my parents if I could stay home from school. My step dad stepped into my conversation and started (not yelling, but raising his voice, my parents make sure I always know the difference) yelling at me about all of the things in school I don’t get done and just compeletely putting me down (Such as “You are such a procrastinator,” and “You never get your work done,” etc.) until I was on the ground balling (sobbing). My mom was standing there and watching the whole thing and didn’t say a thing! And other time, I accidentally slept in after my mom told me to wake up, and when I came downstairs she was literally YELLING (Yes, yelling) at me about it, and I was pretty scared! On top of the way I feel they treat me, my mom has an alcohol problem. She went into detox a couple of years a go and starting over the summer, she started drinking again. She would lie to me about it and swear at me when I confronted her about it, and come up with excuses. I thought she hit rock bottom and was finally recovering. She hadn’t been drinking for one and a half months, and she was on the right track. Then, one day, her best friends dad died. Their family was going through alot too, and she was depressed, and I could tell she had been drinking the day it happened. I didnt confront her but I found out later she had told my step dad, who had in turn told her to DRIVE to her mom’s house to get away! She had even more bottles there, and she drank more there. It was really hard to see my grandmother baby my mom like that, have to take her keys away, drive her home, and then watch my mom stumble and trip all the way up the stairs because she was so drunk. After that, she started going to meetings. I thought she, (and she convinced me) had been depressed and thats why she did it, and I was proud she was going to meetings. I believed her when she promised she would quit, but I came home from school three days ago, and noticed instantly, that she was drunk, and found where she had hid the bottles. I then found the keys to the garage (which are in the house, and my mom is a stay at home mom) and unlocked the garage, and my step dad had more alcohol in there! It would have been too easy for her to just grab the keys and walk in there. He knows if she saw it she would most likely drink it! He keeps telling me he’s trying but I have seen no effort. I want nothing to do with them anymore, they have ruined so much of my childhood, and since that night I have been staying at my grandmothers. I haven’t talked to them since. They have told my grand mother they are bringing my mother back to detox again, but I truely, honestly do not believe them at all. I know alot of parents drink, but my mom is a tiny woman, and one can will effect her greatly. But she doesn’t drink beer, she drinks the really strong stuff, like chardonay and things. She gets really, really stupid when she is drunk and stumbles everywhere and it’s terrifying to see. I have so many terrible memories of a child, like 6 and 7, seeing her drink, and I don’t want to ever see that again. Not only does she drink, but she will drink and drive. Its scary knowing that my mom, would drive me somewhere during the middle of the night, when I would only really little, and become so disoriented that she would have to call someone to come get her. Her mother has taken her keys away from her so many times, and talked to her so many times, but no one can get through, a

I don’t really know what I want to ask… I am alone in fighting a battle with drugs and alcohol. I am soooo happy when I’m sober, good self esteem, people that love me, plenty of interests and things going for myself, so I am confused why I do this to myself. I have always had a wild streak, but its not okay anymore. I am 28 its time to be an adult.

I have ZERO self control. Once I have a drink, its on! I don’t stop drinking and then come the drugs… specifically cocaine.. or really anything you put in front of me, but usually its cocaine. It is really hard because of where I live, Huntington Beach. Everyone drinks and parties and its no big deal. But it crushes me… if I go out to dinner and have a couple drinks it turns into an all night thing, when my friends get up and go to work in the morning I keep going and going by myself! For days!

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I have a friend thats trying to detox herself from alcohol. Any suggestions????
if its a myth then why should she sip sugared sodas????

I feel that I need to check myself in to some type of center or retreat for a week or 2 that can help me face what I consider to be minor addictions. Nothing that would warrant a full 90-day stay in rehab. I need a place that can provide some type of psycho-therapy, and/or spiritual guidance, and help me cleanse my body of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. I know there has to be something like this and I will continue to look, but thought maybe someone knows of somewhere that might help. I live in Houston but am willing to go anywhere within a 5-6 hour radius or so.

A very (VERY) close friend of mine is trying to go through detox from alcohol on his own. He does good for a few days – then he falls off again. (A lot of this has to do with his Ex GF – just know he’s under a LOT of stress from it.) He WANTS to be clean – and is trying; but she comes around just enough to mess with his mind. When he’s sober he does the right things – but when he’s drinking he has NO self control when it comes to her.

I’m tired of watching him suffer – it’s down right heart breaking. I’m trying to just “be there” for him and trying not to belittle him when he falls off….but it’s starting to wear deeply on me. I don’t want to lose him as a friend – but I’m afraid he won’t be able to shake it this time. (He had just passed getting his two year chip when it started back up……)

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I know that Detox helps people with alcohol problems
I know that Detox helps people with alcohol problems
How does Detox help?
What does Detox do?