Do You Have a Drinking Problem?
Wednesday July 1, 2009
Many of those with depression resort to alcohol as a form of self-medication. Has your alcohol use slipped out of your control? The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) is one of the most widely used tools for assessing alcohol abuse. It is a 25-item questionnaire designed to provide a rapid and effective screening for alcohol-related problems and alcoholism.
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My 33-year-old daughter, whom lived in New York, was using Zoloft as prescribed by her doctor. Early in the morning of 14 June 09, my daughter sat down on the railroad tracks, waiting for the morning train to arrive from New Jersey. It arrived right on schedule at 4:41am, which is when her life ended. I had no idea she was under that medication, until I spoke to her friends and received her personal effects from the ploice. I found a bottle of 260 pills, one bottle of 90, and another smaller bottle, all provided by prescription.
This action was not one that my daughter would have done without the drugs/medication. She was kind, generous, and always smiling. Of her two-hundred or so friends, who attended her visitation, none of them foresaw any problems. I can not bring my daughter back, but I can make this tragedy known, in hopes of enlightening others.
I’m a 39yr old female and I have been drinking off and on for 34yrs. I know that sounds crazy but my grand mother and her friends would give it to me whe I was a kid (aprox. 3yr old)because they thought it was funny to watch me stumble and fall down. I started drinking Early Times and Rolling Rock beer with her. She died when I was five. The night she died and many nights after that my mom would give me whiskey to help me sleep. Drinking was allowed in my home. On my sixteeth B-Day I got a case of Rolling Rock. I’ve been to a couple of rehabs and mental institutions( most of pysch wards I went into in a blackout) I guess they did’nt know what to do with me.I went to one rehab for abusing Nyquil, my minimum was six large bottles a day or I would have major withdrawl. I dont drink Nyquil anymore just vodka, about 1-2 pints a day. Believe it or not my liver is not that bad. I do hate the fact that I,m a drunk but it’s all I know. I dont do any other drugs alcohol is my drug of choice. I would love to go into some type of treatment but I cant afford it. I believe that alcohol is nothing but legal poison, I think it’s criminal. Take from some who truly knows PLEASE DON’T EVER GET INVOLVED WITH ALCOHOL, IT KILLS. Peace to all the others with alcohol related problems.
PS: I have no DUI or DWI I refuse to drive I will not harm someone else. Also through out my drunkeness I’ve manage as a single mom to raise a lovly daughter she is 20yrs old and about to enter Univ. Md. Dental school.
Thank You for your time.
I am a recovering alcoholic, as was my father.
Has drinking caused your dauugter any problems? I also worked as a substanced aboue counselor, and I strongly believe it’s not how much or how often one drinks, but what happens when one does drink.
My best to you and your family.
I am a 39 year old female – I am an alcoholic. I wish I had someone to speak to online about my drinking binges. I go for a week up to two months sober then for some reason I start again… I know there is help out there but I am a very stubborn and shy person without the booze… anyone who want’s to talk can email
God Bless