Robert Nixon used to consume alcoholic drinks once in a while. Slowly, he started to drink each day more and things got worse. His behavior was becoming unpredictable. He tells of one incident in a club on a Sunday afternoon when a fight broke out and he and his friends were involved. Minutes later he was outside being questioned by the police and spent several hours at the police station. He was released but in spite of this, the next day he was drinking at his favorite bar again. What kind of person goes everyday desperate for a drink everyday?. Now he is alone, a desperate alcoholic.
Discussion questions for your comment:
what is the difference between a habit and an alcoholic?
Which types of addictions are most socially acceptable than others? Why?
Do you think that they are certain types of personality who are more likely to become addicts?
How can a person who is addicted be treated by his/family, friends, co-workers or partners? Give possible solutions.
The example of this boy, Robert Nixon, shows that in the life exists many situacions that make that the persons become addicts.Because of that, we can affirm that any person can fall in this problem. Also, the habits makes that the persons suffer them.
ResponderEliminarThe difference between habits and addictions is that an habit is an action that we repit voluntarily and an adiction is an action that beggins like an habit and slowly become into an addiction, doing that, though the person doesn't want, he feel the necesity of do it, in this case, of drinking alcohol.
In the society there are addictions that are more aceptable than others, for example; the addiction to watch TV, the addiction to play videogames, the addiction to drink coke and the addiction to the internet. but others addictions like the addiction to smoke, the addiction to drink alcohol, the addiction to the drogs and the addiction to the tattoos that aren´t aceptables at all.
I think that it doesn´t exists any personality that are more likely to become addicts. What can influences is the enviroment where the person develops or emotional situations that he faces and affect him. for example; like a way to escape from the real life.
Some addicts are treated very bad for part of his family, friends and co workers thinking that they are like this because they want but it isn´t true.
An addict person has to fell the support of his family, friends and co workers because the thing that he has is like a sickness, and when he shows the wish of quit with his addict, his family have to look for a professional help and to motivate him to quit the addict that he has.
This happens by Robert Nixon will depend very much on why he started this addiction.
ResponderEliminarI think that a habit can be an action that a person carries out constantly but that is not harmful to the health of the person depends on habit but most are not harmful, and addiction in this case, alcoholism, will cause great harm for this boy because that constantly ingesting alcohol and also their social vine is being affected.
In my opinion I think the service is accepted by the Society; smoking, I think this is a differential waste to drink alcohol because the personality of the person changes abruptly, however smoking has little effect on the personality of the person. Some people sew become addicted more easily and this depends on the willpower of each. His family and friends can help enrolling a rehabilitation program and socially acceptable.
I think the difference an habit and a alcoholic is that:
ResponderEliminarthe habit is an action the person used to do like as nail biting or playin with your hair.
and a alcholic is a person who have a serious disease, a person who the alcohol have controls all the body and thoughts.
in the actually addictions like alcholism,smoking,drug are most acceptable in the society because in today`s world all things like that have been normal, now the people don`t take care, to they nothing have importance, the actually society has become a neglected society, where the people live for false appearances.
I don´t think they are certain types of personality who are more likely to become adicts, depends to the friends, the family or the situation what the person have pass in the moment.
a person who is addicted be trated very fine,is possible his family, friends,co-workers and partners want help him.
or be trated very worse, is possible all the people give away.
I think the better solution is look a professional help and give him support and motivation.
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ResponderEliminar1. An habit is something that you always do without note it, but you could control it if you try. An alcoholic is more than an habit, is an adicction. Is not that you do it because you do it all the time, it's because your body needs it.
ResponderEliminar2.Some drugs like the cigar or the snuff are more socially aceptable than other kind of drugs because the people see it like something ''normal'' or not so bad for the body.
3.Yes, I think that the people who are always feeling sad or depressed are more likely to become addicts to some drugs that can make them feel better or endure a problem.
4. The people who is adiccted to any drug or alcohol needs to be supported by someone ( friends, family, partners, etc) that can help him/her to get over this situation. Rehabilitation it's the best way to do it and leave the drugs or whatever be the addiction that the person has.There's some treatments, apart from the rehabilitation, that can help the person to stop being an addicted
1. An habit is a custom, the people have diferents custom for example read or write, an habit may become a vice, a alcoholic could be a vice because alcoholic drink maybe an habit in the person.
ResponderEliminarThe peoples not must leave that this becomes a habit because this can be cause of many deaths. This is dangerous for example Robert Nixon ended in jail because in that place he had a problem with the people there while Robert Nixon had for habit drinking liquor.
2.There are good adictions and other are not so good, the addictions of reading or writing are very good adictions , but the alcoholic drinks are not good at all because this causes dead but reading may help your brain.
3.The people that have more are more likely to become an addicts are the people weak.
4.This person can look for help in there family, friends, coworkers. They can help listening and giving a solution to problem.
1. An habit is a custom, the people have diferents custom for example read or write, an habit may become a vice, a alcoholic could be a vice because alcoholic drink maybe an habit in the person.
ResponderEliminarThe peoples not must leave that this becomes a habit because this can be cause of many deaths. This is dangerous for example Robert Nixon ended in jail because in that place he had a problem with the people there while Robert Nixon had for habit drinking liquor.
2.There are good adictions and other are not so good, the addictions of reading or writing are very good adictions , but the alcoholic drinks are not good at all because this causes dead but reading may help your brain.
3.The people that have more are more likely to become an addicts are the people weak.
4.This person can look for help in there family, friends, coworkers. They can help listening and giving a solution to problem.
Maria fernanda Cerdas Arce 10-3
what happened with robert is a common example of what could happen to anyone of us. it doesn't matter how we started , it's about when we can't go out of our addicition.
ResponderEliminarAn habit is something with do on several ocassions and you can messure your limits. an addicition is when you can't control something that somehow makes you feel good and you cant stop continue doing it.
the drugs that are 'accepted' nowadays instead of those that we think that are terrible are mostly alcohol and cigarretes and in some parts of the world, marihuana. they think that they aren't that bad because people can control it...which is a complete lie. it's truth that some people can. but no all of them. a drug is still a drug no matter if u can control it or not. it always has some effects.
Those persons who are very strong-willed and are conscious that drugs or alcohol or whatever aren't good to their bodys are very inteligent. but sometimes they fell into consuming it because of the presion of society but no all of them. scientifically speaking there are some genetic patterns that confirms that people with alcoholic pasts in their family are very likely to become addicts. but there is a huge percentage of people that have this bad habits and it's because they have a super low self-esteem and they look for a place where they can fit and they think that things like drugs can do that.
everybody around the addicted person should know that the treatment it's not easy, and that they have to have tolerance and respect, but always be there to support that person who needs it. if the really care about he or she and they see that they are starting to fall into the addiction they should stop them and look out some help for she or him.
When we talk about an habit and an addiction, you need to know which is the different in both. An habit, is something that you do every day and you are not conscious of that and addiction is when you know what are you doing, but you can’t have the control of that. This happened with Robert and his problem because he can’t understand that he has an addiction and he needs help. He lives in the world that he created by his addiction to alcohol.
ResponderEliminarNowadays, the society have a lot of addictions like use the cell phone, play video games, to be all the day in the computer, do exercises, and others but we thing that are normal, and for that are acceptable, but drink alcohol and used drugs, are a bad addiction, but why do we thing that?, because addiction, is the same mean in any case. We can’t separate the things, and say this addiction is good and this bad, both produce negative effects in us, we will lose friends, family and the time to do other important activities.
I think that everybody can to become an addict, because, not ever depend of me, sometimes is the influences of friends and the TV shows. But is more possible that a person could be an addict, if he has problems in his house, or anybody pay attention to him, because he feel alone, and the only solution that he will find, is to start to drink, to smoke or consume drugs. Because if we think very well the things and have a high self-esteem is more difficult to fall and take a bad decision.
The family, close friends and people en general need to learn how treat a person with this problem because not is easy. You must have patient, and not judge, listen why the person chose this way, and tell him that this not is good for his health and his life but with love not with violence, because with this attitude the person wouldn´t change, and other option is to visit with the addict a doctor or specially place where can help better and learn how to leave this addiction and to be a new healthy person.
I think the different between an habit and a alcoholic is, the alcoholic need to drink everyday because he/she need to fell good and is a way to escape reality. A habit is something that we do very often.
ResponderEliminarThe liquor, the cigarettes and sometimes the coffe was an addiction; this adictios was acceptable for the society because the people think is something common, every people do it and the consequences are not something to worry.
I think the personality is not something that determinated this situation. The people who become addicted do this to fell good or for he/she fell that this is the unic way to escape reality.
When a person was addicted he/she need to fell the support of his familie, friends and co-workers because they give the couragen and strength to carry on. The family of the addicted the most part of the time need to find a professional because the addicted was sick and is a long and dificult process.
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ResponderEliminarFor me, habit is when a person likes to do something a lot and repeat it again and again. For the other side, alcoholism is given by the habit. It becomes habit to the point that it is alcoholic, alcoholism is a disease, but it is stopped remains alcoholic, as in the example of Robert Nixon, who drank from time to time until he became addiction.
ResponderEliminarAt the present are many types of addictions, for example, adiccttion to the computer, the facebook, cell phone´s addiction, addiction to some beverages, which are more accepted by society because they are healthier, and other addictions that are widely used by people like the addiction to smoking and use drugs which they are very unhealthy.
I think there are many people that because of their mind health or their poor education by their parents, and also by bad influences from friends they can become addicted, because they think that consume something every day will feel better.
When a person is addicted the best solution for the addict to know that your family will be there supporting him to go ahead with that problem, as well as their friends and also other solution would take him to a rehabilitation center so that the addict can be improved.
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ResponderEliminarThe history of Robert Nixon can happen to anyone, is a lesson for all of us, for to take care of us and be careful of the actions and decisions that we could make. In my opinion, I think that the difference between habit and an alcoholic is that an habit, is a practice that we do everyday; and an alcoholic is a person that have problems with drinks, so we should not say “a person have an habit to drink alcohol” no, this is something more than a habit: is an illness, something that for a person will be very difficult to overcome; and the habit can be overcome if the person decide to do it. Another difference is that an habit can be positive or negative, and alcoholism is totally negative. For example, a good habit can be wash our hands frequently, and a bad habit can be gossip or to smoke. Alcoholism is always negative, because the alcoholic can depress, then can lose his or her family, he stole to people, and also he can hit his wife too, and finally, the alcoholic person, dies.
ResponderEliminarThey are many kind of addictions, but the most socially accepted are: to go waste a lot of money is stores, to smoke, to be addicted of the computer or to the phone and to gossip too. They are accepted because anyone can control these actions for each people that do it. And also people look these actions like normal and most of them do not notice the problem that they have.
Yes I think that they are certain types of personality who are more likely to become addicts, but it depends on the education that the person developped and in the environment in which he or she grew. A person that have an alcoholic mother or father is more likely to become addicts than someone that not.
The solutions exist and can be very effective, if the person works on it and accept that he have a problem. Their families and friends can give him support, but if he do not want to change his mind, the family cannot help him. All is in the problematic person if he want to overcome the problem he would do.
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ResponderEliminar* A habit is something that you do often, but sometimes you don't realize this behavior.
ResponderEliminarAn alcoholic is a person that need a drink everytime, is like he/she can't live without it, and sometimes they do or say things that they don't want.
* Probably cigarrettes, is addictive but many people do it and don't realize that is bad for health and sometimes people don't get bothered when they do it.
* Not really. Anyone could have an addiction.
* For his family it would be very sad, and they may begin to ignore him because they get tired of the situation or they look for someone could help him.
His friends probably start to leave him alone or give him a good advice.
The partners maybe get worried and talk to him to know what's happend, but this addiction could ruin his job.
Solutions:
*He/she could visit a doctor or a psychologist, they could give him a good advice.
*He/she could find a clinic and treat his addictions.
*Talk with his family and friends to explain them the problem (the addiction) and find a solution together.
He fell into a serious problem that was out of control, something that was common for him or a simple hobby became something that will destroy life.
ResponderEliminarHe didn’t think about the damaged that was caused and little by little alcohol started to consume him.
A habit is something you do very often, an alcoholic is when the person depends of the alcohol to survive and move on on his life.
I think that one of the more acceptable addiction is smoking. There is people who smoke and people see it as something normal and they don’t notice that there’s a huge addiction behind all that, to depend of the cigarette to avoid stress or a headache is one of the biggest addictions.
Teenagers are very vulnerable to becoming addicted to something, as they seek to fit into society, being accepted by their peers. And seek their identity in mistaken things, when there is lack of love at home; try to fill these gaps with drugs, liquor, etc.
An addicted person must be treated with patience and tolerance, this because their addiction is a serious problem from which people can’t get out by themselves. Support to move on it is required and also a lot of comprehension. A treatment it must be taken or assist to a rehabilitation place so with the specialists help the person can move on.
For me, Richard Nixon is not the only one whith an adiction like that, but it doesn’t mean that it can be a seriously problem. The diference between an habit and an adicction its that the habit doesn’t matter too much because its controllable , but when the habit becomes to a need , it can be really serius because it isn’t a habit any more, it became to an adiction.Currently the most popular types of adictios are: cosume alcoholic beverages, smoke marihuana and also to cosume other drugs like cocaine and anphetamines , and I think that only the stupid people consume any kind of drugs to feels better. The suggestions that I can give to Richard Nixon are:
ResponderEliminarFirst he need to accept that he has a problem.
Then he needs to looking for professional help.
After that, also he need to solve the problems with his family and friends.
Make that can be really hard, but I think that only by this way, he can return to a normal life.
In my opinion there are two things that are bad for everyone, drink liquor a lot and have bad habits. The habit is not that bad when you can control them. The alcoholic is a person who drinks alcohol and drugs without control. A habit is something we do without realizing it, is something that has a schedule.
ResponderEliminarAnd now we have addictions that are accepted, but we think there aren´t harmful to heath. Some of these addictions include alcohol, liquor, smoking and some drugs. These addictions are accepted as we believe they are not as harmful to people and also because they are what most people use them or have them.
And I think some people with personality disorders are the most vulnerable to becoming addicted because they have problems with self-esteem. And they believe that people who taking these addictions are going to take better account.
And for help a person who is addicted, we can talk with his or her family, friends, co-workers or partners. And the person can accept that family members help or professional help. And the professional can help her/him with medicines or therapy. And now his/her can enjoy a beautiful life, without addictions.
This problem is really dangerous, because he thinks the liquor is the best of the things. A habit is like for example my brother drink one cup of wine three times a week, because he says the wine is good for health, and sometimes when you are stressed the wine can relaxing you. And alcoholic is when you for example drink a lot of liquor everyday of the week.
ResponderEliminarThe people that have a lot of money, almost always spend money to buy liquor.
Is important to people go to the addict search professional help, because de liquor causes serious illness.
My opinion is that the alcoholic is a person who can not stop drinking greatly affect the quality and lifestyle as well as the people around them as habits are continuously repeated behavior by people.
ResponderEliminarIn our society there are actions more acceptable than others in my view no action is acceptable as such is bad to drink alcohol in excess is a bad action seen by the changing society to help an old lady across the street if it is acceptable.
In our society there is more possibility that weak people become addicted because it has very tenacity to get what they want and leave easily collapse while people are not emotionally stronger collapse as easily leave and things are better and the consequences are they can bring.
These people should seek help in overcoming these problems and can look for family and friends but as long as they stop to help, the family has to support him as friends and that a person with addictions is very difficult to treat but not not be able to successfully restore the contrary with all supporting the addicted person can make your recovery faster.
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ResponderEliminarRobert Nixon has a serious problem and he is not the only one. The difference between a habit and an alcoholic is that the person who has the habit can control itself with the alcoholic drinks, but the alcoholic person can`t stop drinking and he starts depending on this and this turns in a problem.
ResponderEliminarIn this society some types of addictions are more acceptable than others because the people think that those drugs are not dangerous, but that isn`t true, all the drugs are the same and it is equal of dangerous. The most commons drugs are the alcoholic drinks and the cigar.
I don`t think that the personality of the person can become people addict. Maybe them have bad influences from his friends and personal problems in their house or to be a depressed person. It’s for that reason that we need to have the support from the family and friends.
This person can be treated with professional help in a rehabilitation center with the support of his family, friends and co-workers.
In my opinion, an habit it's something that you will do constantly, yet it is not something that will affect your family or your friends negatively and most of the time it won't hurt you, it is kind of annoying for some people, though, but being an alcoholic it's crossing that line between something that it's harmless and something that will ruin your life, addictions like people that are addicted to their phones, to internet, or television are more accepted socially but it's still really bad for a person to have this addictions, people that are addicted to drugs, alcohol or even sex are less accepted by others, because this addictions can be more dangerous, for example an alcholic person that drinks alot can be more dangerous than a person that it's only addicted to shopping or cell phones, i believe that there's alot of personalities that have more possibilities of being an addicted than others, like for example, a person that doesn't care about himself, his friends or his family, is more exposed of an addiction because he's not having a good and balanced life, so the best way(for them) to heal that sadness and depressions it's by having an addiction that will distract him and sometimes even make him feel better, an addicted person won't be well treated by his family/friends/partners because he's addiction it's not really something that makes, the people involved with the addicted, happy, addictions are not good things they can go from harmless and annoying to dangerous and deathly, the people around the addicted will threat the person with respect and patience, but inside them they are worried and really sad, so basically the people involved has to help the addicted person instead of disturbing him or act negatively, i think that some solutions we can give are that the family and friends have to be 100% comitted to help this person, for some addictions that are more serious, the person should try with medical assistance, like a psychologyst, a doctor and of course, the most important, rehab
ResponderEliminari think the problem here is that the person can become addicted to alcohol, and he can`t control drink and not drink the alcohol. the people are now accustomed to see others drinking or smoking, in my opinion those are the addictions that society tolerates most because these are legal products, and so has no problem eating it anywhere. for me each person is responsible for the things to do and each has its character to decide, but there are many people who have different problems that affect psychologically and often the only thing they have shelter is the drugs and addictive products. i think not is the personality but yes the character. these is very difficult because the family in almost all rejects the behavior of the addict, and the addict can have a depressed and is even harder to get out of addiction.it can seek help from a professional or an institution that deals with this, but if the addict do not know how having the support of his family these first have to make up my mind to change the course of his life.
ResponderEliminarIn this case Robert have an addiction that is different that a habit because an adiction cause you damage an a habit dont a habit can become to a adiction one example is if you like to read but if you have bad notes because you read thats a bad adicction
ResponderEliminarThere are adictions more acceptable than others like if you play soccer all the days thats good for your health but if you do things that are bad for you like use drogs thats not acceptable
There are person that fall in the addictions more easy than others like a person how have a good family, a good work and is a responsable person with good values is not going to fall to an adictions at diference to a person how have problems with her family, don´t have work and have a lot of problems that gonna fall easier.
A person how have an adiction should search to professional help,or talk to family and friends that can give you a lot of good advices.
Well,In my opinion Robert Nixon never think that the alcohol became an addiciton for him.The diference between an habit and an alcoholic is that the habit is an action that we do and didn´t affect our body and the alcoholic is an addiction of liquor and it can cuase damage.
ResponderEliminarSome addictions aceptable nowday are cigarrette and some adictions that people don´t acept are drugs like marihuana and cocaine.
People that always are sad, depress and insecure are susceptible to use drugs because these things can make feel better.
People who are addicts to any tip of drug need special attention by a professional.
Another type of help for addicts can be his friends ,parteners and his/her family, they can support him/her.
Well,In my opinion Robert Nixon never think that the alcohol became an addiciton for him.The diference between an habit and an alcoholic is that the habit is an action that we do and didn´t affect our body and the alcoholic is an addiction of liquor and this can cuase damage.
ResponderEliminarSome addictions aceptable nowday are cigarrette and some adictions that people don´t acept are drugs like marihuana and cocaine.
People that always are sad, depress and insecure are susceptible to use drugs because these things can make feel better.
People who are addicts to any tipe of drug need special attention by a professional.
Another type of help for addicts can be his friends ,partners and his/her family, they can support him/her.
Habit is something we usually do and an adiction is when the habit becomes necessary. Everybody have habits, but the difference is what kind of habits we have.
ResponderEliminarTherefore, I think it´s wrong to get drunk because the habit becomes in alcoholism. In society not all the adictions are accepted. For example the snuff is very usual, but cocaine isn´t accepted because it is considerated bad for health, but also the snuff.
I think that the personality is important to not be a drug adict because if you are sure of yourself, you will not have problems with people that offer you drugs. These people are rejected by the people around them. To solve this problem the best is to get proffesional help.
an addiction, any addiction you have is both physically and emotionally harmful to anyone and in the case of Robert Nixon is taking as he started to forget the problems, like Mr. Nixon, thousands of people start on a life of alcoholism and these People never thought that alcoholism would consume and handle your life completely and that this supposed solution to the problems, becomes a vice, and the final was not a permanent solution but a temporary solution to forget your problems for a while spent the effects of alcoholism. the alcoholism when it really starts to affect is really fatal in many ways it affects your social life, your health, your job, and most importantly, when this disease affects not only your life but all you surround and love you as these people live for you, they worry all day. difference is that alcoholism is already suffering from a disease no longer can be controlled and a habit if you can control I believe that alcoholism is one of the most accepted addictions in society because it looks a lot and all of a person depends on personality because it defines everything we are and ultimately no way to have a social life with a terrible disease like alcoholism
ResponderEliminar1.The difference between alcoholic and habit is that a habit is something that is almost always because you want to volunteer and alcoholic is a person who is addicted to alcohol binge.
ResponderEliminar2.I think the types of addiction more acceptable in society are alcohol and snuff, because it is more acceptable than other drugs in society because that is the most normal.
3.for my people who are more likely to become addicted are people who do things without thinking before and because they go on bad roads, without anyone to guide them into something good
4.for me it should take the person to therapy to help them start leaving this addiction, the family will also lend their support and love to feel secure and make it easier, friends should listen to the person and give tips to make you feel good.
In my opinion the habit is something that you unconsciously do and is not addictive, but the alcoholic is when the person depend of the alcohol and need more and more for fell good.
ResponderEliminarActually are many types of addictions, for example smoking, drugs, cellphone addiction, computer; that is something people see as normal today, but not many people are acord for this addictions.
The personality and segurity of yourself, has much to do, because you know that is not the best desicion and you may loser your family or job for doing something that doesn't give you anything good.
The best desicion is visit a proffesional or specialist in this cases, and her/his family and friends give support in all process.
For me, what habit means is something that you always do or practice, or something that you are accustumed to do. Even,alcoholism can be, for so much people, a habit. I can define the alcohol as something that the people search, just to have fun, but sometimes ends up being a habit, and aften a disease.
ResponderEliminarIf we talk about yuth's addictions, there are a lot of that can be named. But we can say that the alcohol, cigars, drugs, sex are common and socially acceptable, but not for everyone and they are practice most of the time in secret, without anyone noticing; and often when people realize they are judged by many people, never mind if for many people is acceptable. Instead, there are another kind of adictions, that are socially acceptable for over more of the teenaagers but aren't judged neither practice in secret, without anyone notice it; these can be, cell phone, internet, computes, meal... But it doesn't means that sometimes are bad for yuth.
If you are addicted, is because you decided to be, regardless of any addiction. Personality doesn't matter, what really matters is your madurity, your character and your power of decision.
I think, there are lots of kinds of adictions, some more serious than others, like cell phone, internet, etc. But it does not mean that we have to take control of them. I think, if I had near me an addicted person, for example, with the alcohol or drugs, I'd be anger at the begining... But then, I'd know that they should be trated with love and patience from parents and friends. They should be his\her help to get out of it.
And finally, I can say that if I had the opportunity to talk to an addict person and give her/him many solutions to be free of that I can tell her/him, that the first and, for me, that most important thing is to be willing to leave that... And then, that is important to look for help, with family and GOOD friends. Even, if it's necessary, look for professional help.
And for me, is important to name, that the best help that we can fine is in God, He always understands us and He knows everything about us. And if we ask, He gives. So, I can tell to all people that have an addiction, no matter which, God can help you to go ahead without it. ; )
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