Alcoholism and drug addiction are persistent conditions that in most cases start during developmental years. A chronic toxicity of not only the substance abuser, usually family and loved ones are also poisoned by long term exposure to the condition. Not in the sense that it is contagious, although since it runs in families addiction often develops from using drugs and alcohol as coping mechanisms- but by issues of codependency such as stress, fear, guilt and remorse.
Too often all involved in this desperate circle lose perspective, and begin to accept this condition and circumstances as normal. A good day becomes one in which nobody goes to jail or comes home almost comatose, but comes home.
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