{"id":152,"date":"2016-09-30T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=152"},"modified":"2016-09-30T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:04:38","slug":"day-4-sobriety-awareness-a-students-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2016\/09\/30\/day-4-sobriety-awareness-a-students-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: Sobriety Awareness – a student’s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Health Organization defines sobriety as \u201ca continued abstinence from alcohol and psychoactive drug use.\u201d\u00a0 Lebanon Valley College has designated October 3-6 as Sobriety Awareness Week.\u00a0 Various events are planned to promote discussions on sobriety.\u00a0 Click HERE<\/a> for those events.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Fry\u2019s FYE class is studying addiction.\u00a0 Students were asked to write a story about something or someone who helped shaped one\u2019s attitudes toward alcohol or drugs.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

La Vie is posting the stories of six students, who all agreed to the publication of their submission.\u00a0 These writings are unedited.\u00a0 They appear as how they were submitted for the class assignment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Day 4<\/em>:\u00a0 My family<\/strong>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

By: an anonymous student<\/strong><\/p>\n

People use alcohol and drugs around the world.\u00a0 Everyone has shaped their own viewpoints or attitudes on drugs and alcohol.\u00a0 I discovered my viewpoint on drugs and alcohol due to family altercations.\u00a0 In my entire family, there was an alcoholic and a druggie.<\/p>\n

I developed my viewpoint when I saw and heard my uncle slipping in life.\u00a0 My uncle got divorced by the love of his life after she cheated on him.\u00a0 He became an alcoholic when that happened because he realized he had no one else.\u00a0 Even though he had two kids, that didn’t seem to stop him from drinking.\u00a0 Then he found new friends and the lowest he could’ve gone in life.\u00a0 My uncle discovered drugs and started to do them all.\u00a0 He began doing heroin and popping pills.\u00a0 While directing his life in the wrong direction, he forgot and blocked out his family on that side of his life.\u00a0 Nobody could make my uncle stop, not even my grandparents, his sibling, nor his children.\u00a0 My uncle fell into debt and owned the state thousands of dollars, and lost his house.\u00a0 After a very long time, my uncle finally wanted to recover.\u00a0 Eventually he got relationships back with his family and loved ones.<\/p>\n

My brother also fell to addiction.\u00a0 My brother was the oldest child so he was given some leniency.\u00a0 His father was not the same father as mine, and he didn’t find that out until he hit high school.\u00a0 Even though my father raised and loved my brother like his own son, my brother was confused and hurt not knowing who his biological father was.\u00a0 When high school came, my brother developed his friend groups and then came drugs.\u00a0 At first when my brother was smoking pot, he blamed it on depression and pain, and my parents understood personally but fought with him to not do it.\u00a0 Since my brother wasn’t caring what anyone had to say to him, he began doing whatever he wanted.\u00a0 Soon he fell to bigger drugs like heroin, pills and coke. He discovered that friend group only put him into a hole that was very hard to reach for help or even survive.\u00a0 Our parents began fighting all the time which lead to multiple fights about a divorce.\u00a0 Relationships with my brother from loved ones started to break because of my brothers’ actions.\u00a0 One day my brother decided to change his life because he fell to the deepest part he could’ve gone.\u00a0 He started to get clean by going to rehab and different groups like narcotics anonymous.\u00a0 He developed relationships with his loved ones again and then joined the military.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, my viewpoint on drugs and alcohol was set by seeing my family members and loved ones doing them and ruining their life.\u00a0 Drugs and alcohol ruin relationships with loved one which can destroy the loved one’s relationships.\u00a0 Taking or consuming alcohol is just a slippery slope.\u00a0 I saw my uncle and my brother change as a family member and as a person.\u00a0 Their actions and emotions changed and it took them awhile to develop them and become who we all saw and loved them as.\u00a0 The only way to recover from being an addict is when the addict wants to recover.\u00a0 Seeing my loved ones fall to addiction, made me set my viewpoints on drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Health Organization defines sobriety as \u201ca continued abstinence from alcohol and psychoactive drug use.\u201d\u00a0 Lebanon Valley College has designated October 3-6 as Sobriety Awareness Week.\u00a0 Various events are planned to promote discussions on […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}