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How To Help An Alcoholic Family Member in the News

Lewis Diuguid: African-American dignity is dominant in 'The Butler'
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In the darkness of the theater, I kept wondering as the mixed-race audience applauded during "Lee Daniels' The Butler" what made this film so different from the 2011 movie "The Help." Both focused on African-American … Cuba Gooding Jr., who also …
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Daily Planner: September 25
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Temporary Restraining Order help: Call in advance to assure a counselor will be available; 330 Wall St. Suite 50. 343-7711. For victims of … California Protective Parents Association: 6-7 p.m. The mission of the Association is to protect children …
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Child Of Alcoholic in the News

Cabinet approves bill banning alcohol ads
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"Alcohol advertising glamorises and encourages the use of a product that causes serious harm to individuals and to society and, despite claims from the industry that children and youth are not targeted, international research indicates that advertising …
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Shop that sold alcohol to child keeps licence
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On both occasions, the child was sold four cans of lager which had an alcoholic content of 4% and 4.8%. As a punishment, the council has removed Ushan Wewalwala as the Designated Premises Supervisor and a new “Challenge 25 Scheme” will be …
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Support For Families Of Alcoholics in the News

Oroville Calendar
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… support. Early Bird Fellowship, Alcoholics Anonymous: Open meetings, 6:30-7:30 a.m., Oroville Family Resource Center, 2085 Baldwin St. Weekly. … Victims of Domestic Violence Support Group: 5:30 p.m. Family Resource Center, 6249 Skyway, Paradise.
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Cordish Head Defends Leominster Slots + Casino Gaming
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During the past 10 decades, the privately held, family-owned has grown into a global conglomerate of businesses defined by two major areas of expertise: real-estate development; and entertainment-district and casino/slots operations. As Cordish enters …
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Abilene, Big Country calendar 9/23/2013
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Schizophrenia Support Group, 1 p.m., Advocates of Abilene, 333 Orange St. (use back door). 325-676-1400. Haskell County Alzheimer's … Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Avoca United Methodist Church. 325-773-2611. Survivors of …
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Question by Barney Blake: I’ve Been With My Boyfriend For 6 Years, But …..?
I’ve been with my boyfriend for 6 years, but, I feel like I don’t know him anymore.
We met 13 years ago, but, didn’t start seeing each other romantically until 6 years ago. I’ll admit, when we first met, I had a problem with alcohol, I was a binge drinker and I was drunk 3 or 4 nights a week. Still, I maintained a full time job, I was living life like a normal person, basically, except for the alcohol. I suppose I was a “functioning alcoholic”.
Throughout the first 4 years of our relationship, my boyfriend was very anti-alcohol, his father had been an alcoholic, and he was very opposed to being in the presence of anyone who was drinking. I tried to keep my drinking hidden from him as much as possible.
During our 5th year together, I developed a rare disease known as HSP, as well as kidney disease. Although unrelated to my drinking, I STOPPED drinking altogether when I got sick. And in the last year and a half, I almost never drink now, I might have one alcoholic drink every 2 months or so. ONE. With my kidney disease, I just CAN’T drink, my body won’t let me. I feel sick for days after one drink.
My boyfriend, on the other hand, spends all of his free time drinking now. For someone who was once opposed to all things alcohol related, he’s at the bar 6 nights a week. He got a DUI 4 months ago, totaling his brand new car. Two weeks later, with another new car, driving drunk again, he totalled his car a second time. A month ago, he wrecked his car again, though he claims to not have been drinking that time.
There’s more …. after some talking about his drinking, he’s admitted to me that he “used to” have a problem with drinking years ago, that, in fact, this is his second DUI. 14 years ago, right before we met, he was involved in a single car accident that almost caused him to be a paraplegic, after 7 surgeries, 2 years out of work, and dealing with excrutiating pain, he’s able to lead a mostly normal physical life. (Prior to this, he had made up a huge, false story about his accident, I knew he had been in an accident, but I didn’t know alcohol was involved)
We just had dinner together tonight, I barely see him anymore, all he wants to do is go out and drink, and I’m very much opposed to the “bar scene”. After dinner, he was insistent that we go out to a bar to drink. Instead of going to a movie, or going for a walk, or coming back to my house for intimacy, all he wants to do is drink.
And I suppose as someone who has had problems with alcohol in my own past, I should be more understanding, but, I CAN’T. I wait up at night, waiting for the phone call, that he’s either dead or has killed someone else while driving drunk.
On top of all this, he’s also bipolar, he has these really high moods and times of extreme depression. And I fear that during some alcoholic binge he may become depressed to the point of attempting suicide. I don’t know what he’ll do when he’s drunk. I’ve been out with him twice when he was drinking, and, he gets “blackout drunk” very easily, he becomes obnoxious and mean, sometimes he’s sloppy and can’t even stand up.
He hides these behaviours rather well, he works a full time job, he owns his own home, he takes care of his elderly mother. But he’s self destructing, and I don’t know why, and I don’t know what I can do to stop it. HELP!

Dealing With An Alcoholic Family Member in the News

Male veteran speaks out on rape, attempted suicide
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In May, the Pentagon released results of an anonymous survey on sexual assault: Twenty-six thousand service members reported that they had been sexually assaulted or harassed in 2012, up from 19,000 the previous year. Women get most of the attention on …
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'Boardwalk Empire' Season 4 Recap: “Acres of Diamonds”
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This time, we get a frank admission that the bootlegging money isn't worth the risk — right before our hero agrees to a massive, probably ill-fated offloading deal on the Florida coast. One step forward, two gigantic leaps back. That offloading deal …
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Tragedy strikes UC, Miami, Hamilton
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Living With An Alcoholic Husband in the News

Readers sound off on Elliotsville land plan
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The median income is $ 36,000 compared to the $ 46,000 for the State of Maine as a whole and well below the average income for people living near a National Park and National Recreation Area. It is estimated that Millinocket will see the largest …
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Critics' Picks: Sept. 20-26, 2013
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Patricia Heaton's "The Middle," moving into its fifth season, is to my mind the best family sitcom now living. Unlike nearly every other show on television, … The play, about the reunion between a stressed-out retail clerk and her recovering …
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FALL TV: A few thrills amid a mediocre lineup of new shows
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