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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 411556" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>My late father in law was a "functional alcholic." He worked the night shift and would head straight to the bar and close it out after his shift was done, then come home and sleep till 2:30, at which point, he'd wake up, shower and shave and say good bye to H and his sibs on their way home from school. At 12, H was walking down to the bars to get his dad out and bring him home. At 14, he was driving there (even though it's 17 to get a license in our state) in a car that HE bought for his dad with his own money (he modelled as a kid) after dad cracked the family car up. H told his dad that if he cracked this one up, he'd never get a new one.</p><p></p><p>sister in law has the addictive personality. Actually, I should ask here - she right now takes 40 mgs of Oxycontin three times a day, plus Klonopin and some other stuff she won't even tell us about - I think she needs detox or rehab. It shouldn't be my business but she lives with mother in law and I get nervous letting my kids go there.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, H's dad could function in the sense that he held down a job for 30+ years for the same company. However, I truly feel that his way of functioning totally destroyed H. He is such a control freak but due to his ADD, can't even control properly. H does not do drugs and is the total opposite - he refused to take his heart medications because he "doesn't believe in taking drugs" until it was obvious he was going to DIE without them because he needed them!</p><p></p><p>on the other hand, I am legendary for the amount of alcohol I consumed in law school. Once I graduated (2nd in my class) and started working, I never drank that way again. I tried pot twice, once in HS and once in college; absolutely hated it. I lived with a guy who smoked pot recreationally for over 7 years and I never smoked with him once. I tried coke in law school and hated it, ditto for quaaludes. I was given Vicodin after surgery once and it made me so sick, I flushed it down the toilet (to my sister in law's horror - LOL!). I'm even allergic to Valium - it bounces me off walls and doesn't calm me one iota.</p><p></p><p>I believe there is an addiction gene. My father in law and his daughter have it, thankfully, H does not seem to have inherited it so my kids are safe. I also think there is an addictive personality. mother in law is like that - in the 60's, she was one of the millions of women who became hooked on "Mother's Little Helpers" in the guise of weight loss pills. Once she was detoxxed (at home by my H at about 10 years old), she went cold turkey and does not do them since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 411556, member: 3493"] My late father in law was a "functional alcholic." He worked the night shift and would head straight to the bar and close it out after his shift was done, then come home and sleep till 2:30, at which point, he'd wake up, shower and shave and say good bye to H and his sibs on their way home from school. At 12, H was walking down to the bars to get his dad out and bring him home. At 14, he was driving there (even though it's 17 to get a license in our state) in a car that HE bought for his dad with his own money (he modelled as a kid) after dad cracked the family car up. H told his dad that if he cracked this one up, he'd never get a new one. sister in law has the addictive personality. Actually, I should ask here - she right now takes 40 mgs of Oxycontin three times a day, plus Klonopin and some other stuff she won't even tell us about - I think she needs detox or rehab. It shouldn't be my business but she lives with mother in law and I get nervous letting my kids go there. Anyway, H's dad could function in the sense that he held down a job for 30+ years for the same company. However, I truly feel that his way of functioning totally destroyed H. He is such a control freak but due to his ADD, can't even control properly. H does not do drugs and is the total opposite - he refused to take his heart medications because he "doesn't believe in taking drugs" until it was obvious he was going to DIE without them because he needed them! on the other hand, I am legendary for the amount of alcohol I consumed in law school. Once I graduated (2nd in my class) and started working, I never drank that way again. I tried pot twice, once in HS and once in college; absolutely hated it. I lived with a guy who smoked pot recreationally for over 7 years and I never smoked with him once. I tried coke in law school and hated it, ditto for quaaludes. I was given Vicodin after surgery once and it made me so sick, I flushed it down the toilet (to my sister in law's horror - LOL!). I'm even allergic to Valium - it bounces me off walls and doesn't calm me one iota. I believe there is an addiction gene. My father in law and his daughter have it, thankfully, H does not seem to have inherited it so my kids are safe. I also think there is an addictive personality. mother in law is like that - in the 60's, she was one of the millions of women who became hooked on "Mother's Little Helpers" in the guise of weight loss pills. Once she was detoxxed (at home by my H at about 10 years old), she went cold turkey and does not do them since. [/QUOTE]
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