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.
1-The difference between an habit and an alcoholic is: an habit is when you do something all the days or some days as a routine, an alcoholic is when you are out of control, you don’t think about drink and drink and drink.
ResponderEliminar2-For example the addiction of play videogames all day every day, or surf the internet for too many hours, they aren’t bad for society, because they don’t do anything bad for the health of the person.
3-No, because each person choose the path of his life.
4-The family can give advices to the addict, his friends can visit other places with him/her for fun, stay with him/her in the good and bad situations.
i think this man are in a bad problem this problem is unnecessary he lost his friends and he it is consuming more in this bad habit.
ResponderEliminarwe are our own masters of our lives and we live in the way.
this bad habits are awful because we lost everything our friends,family and all in our life.
About this text about an alcoholic is that an alcoholic is a person that just think in drink and drink because he needed and that’s make him feel good with himself , but a habit it’s an activity or anything that some person does regularly but not always needed. Some addictions that are socially acceptable are people that they need to be always organized because they need it, but people see this normally. I think that each person chooses the things that they enjoy more so this doesn’t have any relation with the personality. The families of people who are addicted to something should help them to get out of these problems so they should support them in any hard situation that they need.
ResponderEliminarAn habit is something that we make in our daily basis, and is something that we need it, but I think that being alcoholic is more a vice, because the alcoholic is addicted to drink not being aware of the consequences.
ResponderEliminaraddiction depends on the age of the people, but is less accepted a person addicted to drugs than someone who is addicted to alcohol at least in Santo Domingo is very common that people drink alcohol and is not seen as bad as someone who uses drugs
there is more possibility that people with family problems or people with outgoing personalities become addicted and it is because they are looking to feel better that`s why they prefer to ingest drugs.
when a person is addicted I think that family and friends must show their support and let them know that drugs are not the best way to solve problems.
An habit is an activity that people do every day, but what Alcoholics have a disease, addiction to this type of harmful substances that make them feel in a better way. An alcoholic is accepted by society, a person who smokes cigarettes is seen in a good way by society. but I think that people who use drugs do not, because their appearance and way of life is worse than an alcoholic. We must know that not only are these types of addictions, also there are people addicted to the Internet, video games, television. Affects personality, but each person chooses his life and the best for him or her.
ResponderEliminarFamily and friends are important in the life he or she, the family have to be with this person to motivate,and tell them that addictions are not the best way to solve problems.Do not go to places where they drink alcohol and not let get together with friends who like this type of beverage or addictions.
First, I think that a habit its something that you do, as a costume of the person and he can controled, but an alcoholic its a person who have big problems to controled the drink.
ResponderEliminarSome addictions like surf the internet, the shopaholics or phone addicts are aceptable by society because the people think that isn´t a problem but is a serious problem like others addictions.
Yes, I think that there are people who can´t face their problems, then look for addictions to resolve it.
He can be treated giving some advices, doesn´t induce the person to have the addiction more bigger and send him to a rehabilition center.
The difference between someone who has habit and an alcoholic person is that the in the habit the person go and drink because he likes it but in the alcoholism the person do it because he needs to drink.
ResponderEliminarThe most accepted types addictions are the alcoholism and when a person smoke, they are seems normal, because everyone do it.
Yes, I think there are persons who are more likely to acquire some habit, but if you are not one of those persons and you go out and drink every day you will surely acquire the habit.
If you know someone who has an addiction you should go and talk with him/her or talk with the family and agree some solution like go to rehab or try to stop doing what her/he´s doing.
The difference between an habit an alcoholic is that in the habits the people think what they do and you do this all the days, when you have an alcoholics you only think in drink alcohol and get drunk, some of addictions can be accepted in the society like smoke or drink alcohol moderately that is because people are accustomed to see that in the street and in the city, I think everyone has the last word on what you do in your life, we can take the right track or wrong track this are our decision, the person who have an addiction can seek professional help and have a closer relationship with their parents.
ResponderEliminarI believe that habits are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously, but habits are sometimes compulsory; and I think an alcoholic is characterized by compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcohol despite its negative effects on the drinker's health, relationships, and social standing.
ResponderEliminarI believe that addictions more acceptable are legal drugs like alcohol and snuff, but did not cause much effect on the person, and other illegal drug creates addiction and dependence, reason that I think are not appreciated at the social level.
I think that personality does affect the odds of becoming addicted because each person has their own self-control.
An addicted person can be treated with affection and respect and seeking professional help.
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ResponderEliminarAn addiction is a dependence on a substance, activity. Addiction is a disease that is not very easy to cure. A habit is something that we are accustomed to do, for example, brush our teeth every day. For me any addiction reflects a lack of self control. Also the people hide addictions because they have subtle behaviors that are more socially accepted as addicted to television, work or food.
ResponderEliminarI think that people that have introverted personalities, or people who built their personality in a high level of violence or addicted parents have a probability of falling into addiction to some substance.
The addict is the last to accept that it has problems and experience has shown that in the solution it is essential to involve the family, giving all the support necessary, seek psychologists, doctors, detoxification centers. It is important to talk with the addict to accept that the problem is theirs and get the proper rehabilitation means trying to encourage him to persevere and appreciate life.
The difference between a habit and an addiction is that a habit is something you repeatedly do until it becomes a routine in your life to the point that you do it automatically. And an addiction is a dependence on a substance or activity and the person doesn't care about the consequences associated with it. There are a whole range of things that we can become addicted to which include gambling, exercise, ‘retail therapy’ (shopping), sex, food, alcohol, the Internet, the list goes on and on. But I think some addictions appear to be more “socially acceptable” than others, for example alcohol. Many people enjoy a drink and are able to control how much they consume. But there others who find that alcohol become more than a pleasant social activity. My opinion is that personality may relate with addictions because as I said some addictions appear to be "socially acceptable". I think the family is so important and has to be there for the person with addictions because sometimes what helps one to overcome difficult things are the people we love.
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ResponderEliminarWe all are human beings, for us it´s necessary to have habits, like brush our hair every day, eat… instead of that we must have clear the difference between a habit and an addiction. Addiction it´s a totally different thing because It´s something that from one way or another it´s having bad consequences in our body and personal life. Even when smoke and drink beer it´s not just accepted by society, it´s also something that the people see like good, this kind of things are very dangerous. Are dangerous because we are always getting closer and closer to a deep hole, and we can fall in every moment. Every person can become an addict, no one is safe. But there are personalities who are in a more dangerous situation than others. This is because people who feel alone, or disappointed about their selves and have another kind of problems, take the addictions like solutions. When the people it´s becoming an addict they do not understand all the things that they are going to lost. Family, friends, people who know them, people who see them on street, everyone... it´s going to think differently, it´s not going to be a friend who they saw somewhere, it´s going to be an addict. Who carries an addiction become in a desperate person who makes everything to have what they want. And in the road they also lost everything. People who know they can have this problem have to accept it first, because no one can do something if they do not realize of the problem…
ResponderEliminarA habit is an activity that you do constantly; you can follow living without it. An addiction like alcoholic is something that is out of your control and you get desperate to drink. If it’s a substance you search some way to get it. No one addiction is acceptable, but some are common like to smoke or to drink alcohol, it’s because they’re licit drugs, that you can buy in a market, and drugs like crack for example are illicit substances and you can’t found them easily. I can’t say that rockers use drugs and are addicts and either I can’t say that a guy that is very homelike doesn’t use it. If you’re addicted is because you want to, because you decide to use the substance, doesn’t matter the personality. If you get addicted everything change because you are not you, your mind react by order of the drug.
ResponderEliminarThe difference between a habit and an alcoholic is: an habit is a good action and not produce serious problems.It´s a good way to life.And an alcoholic person have a serious problems with the family and society.
ResponderEliminarThe kleptomania and gambling are addictions most socially acceptable than addiction to pornography and alcoholism because they are not dangerous for the body and they don´t hurt the family.
In some cases the people have certain personalities because have bad situations in your home like violance, drugs and sex.And this factors cause a bad behaviour in this persons.The addicts they have to be treated by profesionals in this situations and family, friends, partners they must give your love and hope for the addict and grow together for change this situation.
1-An habit is something that is done every day and that of both do already then or we realize that we do it, but we do it simply. An alcoholic is someone who can not living without drinking alcohol and his life revolves around the liquor.
ResponderEliminar2- Addiction over the cell phone addiction, or addiction to collecting items, they are not abnormal and that are very common situations to which do not pay attention.
3- I think anyone can become addicted, regardless of their physical or personality
4-This person should be treated normally, should treat that person well and support in difficult situations and to help them overcome their addictions, understand that person and listen to so you feel supported and can move forward.
1: a habit is when a person do something as a routine and is not bad for their body and an alcoholic is a problem that a person have when he can`t stop to drink alcoholics beverages and is a necessity to do it all the days without control.
ResponderEliminar2: the addiction to go shopping, to talk with their friends, to play soccer, to do exercises, to go out with friends, to play videogames, etc…
3: no because the person choose who he want to be in there life, but he or she have to look for the best decision to resolve their problems and the alcohol is not the only way out.
4: alcoholic persons can be treat by the family with the help of an expert that can give them some advises of the bad things that the addiction do in the body and talking with the person.
A habit is an action bad or good, we make daily and an alcoholic is a disease. Watch TV , play videogames, play with computer and others, because people think no this habits aren´t bad and they think only habits are bathe all day, wash our teeth,…
ResponderEliminarI think yes, personalities are different and habits are different. People use cigarettes and alcoholic drinks usually after they try new drugs because they need more effects in their bodies. People with friends usually smoke illegal drugs.
Love, amity and respect addicted need that. Be addicted is a disease. Be close to control the addict. Distract the person with fun activities and he for gets the addiction. Visit a specialist medic. No buy expensive things if he knows how much the things cost because maybe he tries to steal that, to buy drugs.
An habit is one thing that you always do, and if you stop that habit you will feel messy, but and habit could be good or bad but it can’t damage your body, in exchange if you are alcoholic, you are deteriorating very seriously your body, you can get poisoning and if you continue you will die.
ResponderEliminarPeople can gossip or they also can’t leave the cell phone, the internet, the TV but that is better than be an alcoholic or a drug addict.
If you have an addict family member it is scary to be with him you don’t know what he is going to do, to help them people should take them to the alcoholics anonymous centers, where there are people with the same problems, and a person that know how to help them, but the most important thing is that if you don’t have interest in cure yourself, people can’t do something for them, they have to do the first step.
A habit is an action every day is a usual practice to decide whether they are good or bad. An alcoholic is a person who can not stop drinking, which damages their quality and style of life, affecting your family and friends. Some addictions that are a little more acceptable than others are like smoking, drinking alcohol (beer, liquor, whiskey). Because they are legal drugs but cause harm to humans. There are people with personalities that often are weak or in many cases are influenced by their supposed friends. An addicted person can not recognize their addiction to the addict who can solve your problem must recognize that it is an addiction. His family and friends offer their support and do everything possible for the addict to feel depressed. The best solution that can have is to take the addict to a psychologist and placement in a rehabilitation clinic.
ResponderEliminarAn alcoholic is a person who drinks a lot and don’t think about what he’s doing, he don’t think just drink but an habit is something you do every day. I don’t think that exist some kind of addiction that are more acceptable but if something it’s more acceptable that other, that could be an addiction for the video games of something like that. But it’s important to now that don’t exist certain type of personality that could be more vulnerable to become addict than other, this problem depend of the limits of each person have. I think that the family of the addicted person has to give advices to him/her to help him/her.
ResponderEliminarYou can have control of a habit, however you can not control an alcoholic. The alcoholism is a disease difficult to control. An addition that many person face today is the internet, they surf in it all day long. Perhaps, it does not affect other people around the addict, just those ones who have it as an addition. People with weak personalities are more easy to get into an addition. They think they are not able to fix their problems, so they use addictions to forget them. A person who is addicted should be treathed with lot of understanding in order to help, and if it is neccesary to take to a rehabilitation place.
ResponderEliminarThe difference between a habit and an alcoholic is that the habit is something that you do always in every moment because you need that, and an alcoholic is a desease that you can´t control that and this destroy the life of a person that have this kind a desease or addiction.Alcoholic could be a habit but one bad habit for the persons that have that! So much people have an addiction with the cell phone, the TV, or the computer, and nowadays this is normal in the life of the persons and this habits are accepted for everybody. Other persons have the addiction for cigarretes or alcohol, but this are acepted for the people, but other persons consume drugs and this aren´t acepted for the society. This kind of addictions could affect his or her personality, but each person can choose the better for his or her lifes.Family members or close friends can help this persons giving a pieces of advice, be with him or her in every moment, respect them and tell them what things are the best for have a good life and enjoy the life with good and normal habits.
ResponderEliminarAn habit is an action that you usually do. For example take a bath, have breakfast, lunch or dinner. An alcoholic is a person who is obsessed with drink and drink beers (alcohol).
ResponderEliminarThere too many addictions like the videogames, the computer, the internet, television, cell phones. All of these addictions are because the people use this things and they can´t stop or they don´t have a good relation with friends
Some people choose the meaning of his life, each person has his own personality, so he decides if he wants to become addicted or not
The family will have to accept this person; the person can be treated by psychological help, his/her friends will go to different and healthy activities, help him in his/her problems
An habit is a think you have to do every day and alcoholic is a person who is drink every day and it cannot control it. There are many addictions and it cannot control it, sometime addictions are alcoholism and drug addictions. A person with little self- esteem it but prone to fall in a addiction. A person with an addiction it can go to a specialist or talk with the relatives to look for a solution
ResponderEliminar1- The difference between a habit and an alcoholic it’s that with a habit you only consume alcohol once in a wild, but when you start to consume that every day, you are becoming to be an alcoholic.
ResponderEliminar2- I thing that all addictions are bad, but most people thing that if many other persons do that, they are able to accept that its not so bad when it actually is.
3-Yes, I thing that many people depending on the type of education, are more likely to become addicts, like the persons that life in places when you can buy drugs in every corner, and with fathers that also have some addiction.
4- Depending on the type of family it can be treated well or not so well, because we now that are many addicts that ends on the streets because they are rejected by his family, but also are persons who are open to help addicts in every possible way that they know.
The different between an habit and alcholic is: an habit is a action that the people make usally in your life. for example: take a bath all the days and brush your teeths, but alcholic is a addiction, the alcholic is a very serius problem because the man needs drink alcohol everyday.
ResponderEliminarThe society accept the people that drink alcohol but not accept the alcholic. The problem is that the society allow the liquor sales and the result we have is a lot of drunk people.
The alcholic is a person that can´t live without alcohol because your body needs this substance.
There too many addictions. For example: video games, surf the internet and television
I think there is not much difference because being alcoholic is to have the habit of drinking alcohol daily, but I think a habit must be something good or productive for us. more acceptable addictions are alcohol and snuff because they are given and the age of majority may be, but other stronger or prohibited drugs are less acceptable in society. I think that anyone regardless of their personality are at higher risk to become addicted than others because it is a personal decision and I think that personality does not matter. I think that such people should be treated with tolerance and understanding so that they achieve a good way to overcome his addiction, and my opinion about this is that just by sheer willpower to say no to drug addiction can be any avoided.
ResponderEliminarWell the Habit is a thing that people make for inertia, you do this things every day! its like a routine(take a shower, eat,brush your teeth...) The alcoholism is an addiction that destroy the life of the sick person, and even can kill. Some addictions are accept for the society, and this addictions are not bad, because dont hurt you, like check the facebook, surfer in the internet, etc.(NO EXTREME)
ResponderEliminarThis illness affects people who have low self-esteem or people who have financial problems, problems at work and problems at home.
To resolve this problem you can go to the doctor(specialist in the theme)or AA and ask for help because you DONT HAVE an addiction you have a disease.
Try to change this for something sporty, try to talk about your problem with your family friends and the must important with GOD! but the first step to CHANGE... is accept that you have a serious problem.
I think the difference is that an habit is a behavior; is repeated in a regular person... every days and every moments; habits are activities that we incorporate into our daily lives. And an alcoholic is a person who have a disease that involves having a strong need for alcohol... when you are an alcoholic you have a physical dependence.
ResponderEliminarI think that some addictions are more accepted than others because now people see everything "normal"... some examples of this addictions are snuff, drink alcohol,play video games, watch television and things like those... others addictions less acceptable in the society are drugs, because in Costa Rica are not permitted by law.
I think not because each person owns their own destiny and can choose be or not be in life.
I believe family members and friends can help whit professional care and when the addict need some advice give them. The better solution is take professional help
Well, I think that Nixon has a problem “the alcoholic drinks”. He started going to the bar and drinking a bear, but then this activity became a habit and he became a desperate alcoholic.
ResponderEliminarIn this situation I think that the habits conduce to the addictions, so I can’t find a difference on these two concepts. But I can say that habits are those activities that we do often, maybe everyday. So, people that are alcoholics have a very bad habit, because they hurt themselves, theirs relatives and friends.
There are many addictions that people accept and practice, but we can’t see them because they are “normal”. We can mention many of them like= go shopping and buy things that we don’t need, people do it just for spend their money, spend hours and hours using your phone, people that are lazy...
I think that people personalities can be likely or not to the addictions. If a person likes to go to parties, to the bars, have fun and they are a little bit crazy they can be likely to addictions because on these places we can find, alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, drugs....
Families get worry if a relative is an addict; they want to help this person. If the person has truly friends they would be on his or her side, but most of the “friends” just go away. At work, the co-workers mostly of the time don’t help.
If people have addicts they should go to the psychologist or to place where they can pass up their problem.
When a person has the habit of taking a drink and doesn't reach the point of despair by the alcoholic drink you can consider like a habit but when a person reaches the point of needing to live quietly is considered an alcoholic.
ResponderEliminarThere are many types of obsessions, since they use some kind of drug or cleaning excessively for fear of germs, but the society more critical that affects them directly because we live in a very selfish society.
Anyone can become addicted and their personality doesn’t matter because people usually resort to that sort of thing for trouble. People who have some type of addition need much help from family and friends and they can help them by talking to them or seeking professional help.
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ResponderEliminarI think he has very serious problems, because the people how is looking for this kind of things, have no life... and brings conflicts with family, friends etc... he should to try to find out something that really care in his life, something that really want to keep alive. And if he doesn't find something that really keeps him alive, he'll have serious problems and he'll need help
ResponderEliminarThis person has a serious problem such as alcoholic drinks, he is out of control and its better that his family and friends help him and support him in this moment of his life.
ResponderEliminarI think that a habit is something that we do everyday like brush our teeth or and the alcoholic person it’s an addict because they rarely can be controlled if there is not professional help.
There are some types of addictions that people see them normal, things like cell phones, computer, surf the internet, videogames… are addicts too. In my opinion, the most common and important addiction is coffee, people drink it very often.
All the personalities are different, and I think that there are people who are addict without knowing it; this is a very serious problem.
The family, friends, parents are essential for a person who has become an addict; they are the support and maybe a possible solution for his disease.
The addictions are a problem in our country, and if is not controlled can be a trouble for society.
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