Alcoholic family member

[thecoolnessrune]

I say beat the shit out of him and lock him in the closet with basic bread and water with the ultimatum of saying what's wrong and coming off drinking or spending the rest of his life tied up in a closet.

 

[Casawi]

I don't know, sorry to hear that. Hope it works out some how, I never really understood the alcoholic thing.

 

[Q]

Like another poster suggested, if it gets really bad maybe spiking his drink with that stuff that makes you really nauseated might work. Hope that's not illegal though? I know it's used by psychologists on alcoholics. Only real thing to do is catch him when he's sober (if possible) and say something.

 

[silverpig]

Throw him in a truck, drive out into the middle of nowhere and drop him off. I don't know what it would accomplish, but at least he wouldn't be driving.

 

[Flash1969]

19 beers in under 2 hours? BS

 

[Geekbabe]

You need to get him to the closest emergency room,he sounds like he's a danger to himself and others and is unable to make rational choices for himself,he needs a psych eval.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Its like he's all of sudden hell bent on destroying himself.

Could this really be true?

You dont think that he found out he has cancer or something and is trying to drink himself to death.

Does he have a big life insurance policy or something?

 

[KingGheedora]

How can he be behind on those payments after just two weeks of drinking, if he's earning 10K a month?

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: InFeXiOn
Interventions work pretty well.

You don't have to go all crazy like they do on TV, but just get some family members together that are feeling the adverse effect of his drinking and have them open up to him. Surely it will be an emotional experience and it might open his eyes to what he's doing and whom he is harming.

Interventions suck ass!!
You have to pretend you care and all when the fact remains there is always one or 2 family members who don`t give a rats ass...

I have seen many interventions go southy because in the final analysis one og the faqmily members thought they were lying in order to convince this person they needed help!!

The solution is you have to unconditionally Love that person-- no matter what!!

 

[IGBT]

..it's an age old story. I've burried 2 members of my family because of booze and drugs. If somebody's hell bent on self destruction under the guise of having a good time there's little you can do. I will say that if they end up in jail don't bail em out. Sometimes the experience will jolt em into change. But if they know some one will always show up and bail em it only encourages the boozy behavior. I found this out the hard way.

 

[Bibble]

My dad went through bad times like your brother is currently experiencing. As far as I remember, the only thing that stopped these periods of heavy drinking was the police, unfortunately. Even after rehab, he was unable to overcome his alcoholism. In the end, it wound up being the death of him. I hope you figure out something to save your brother from reaching a similar fate. I wish you, your family, and especially him all the luck in the world.