How to Talk to Your Family about Drinking this New Year ’s Eve

How to Talk to Your Family about Drinking this New Year’s Eve Talking with friends or loved ones about being more careful when they drink alcohol can feel uncomfortable. But for thousands of Americans who die from alcohol poisoning every year or are killed by a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve, one uncomfortable conversation could have made the difference between life or death. Here’s how you can broach the subject with friends, children, siblings or parents, and help them stay safe and healthy as they welcome 2017. Your loved one may brush off your concerns about their drinking on New Year’s Eve by blaming the holiday itself. In fact, the accepted social norm that people will drink alcohol to excess on New Year’s Eve makes it even more dangerous for the casual user. It is never a good idea to drink more than one alcoholic beverage in an hour, no matter what day it is. Don’t let the holiday obscure the difference between healthy, controlled use of alcohol with life-threatening, blackout abuse. Still, some people might laugh off the threat. Because it’s so common for people to drink alcohol, your loved one might dismiss your concerns for their health and safety as unfounded. But while there’s plenty of evidence showing how dangerous and pervasive opioid abuse is, alcohol is overwhelmingly more lethal than opioids, killing over 30,000 more people every year than the notorious class of prescription drugs. Alcohol abuse is no joke, but rather an insidious behavior c...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Richard Taite Source Type: blogs