Why alcoholics can't stop. We stop the drinking of the husband at home

The drunkenness of a husband or other relative is a real disaster in the family.

On the one hand, this is a real psychological problem, which sometimes becomes completely impossible to endure, and on the other hand, it is also a physical one, because alcohol abuse adversely affects the health of an alcoholic, often leading to the most sad consequences. This is especially true for drinking. How can I stop my husband from drinking?

Binge drinking: a dangerous condition that requires intervention

binge is considered the highest degree alcohol addiction. It manifests itself in the fact that a person drinks for several days or longer, while not being able to stop. Moreover, a person does not get pleasure from drinking alcohol, but continues to drink, because he is sure: if he stops, he will die or he will be “broken” by a stroke or heart attack. In this state, a person completely loses the sense of proportion: after a night of drinking in the morning, a person decides to get drunk and drinks a glass of alcoholic beverage. Soon it becomes easier for him, and he decides to alleviate the condition even more and drinks another glass - and the binge begins. Binge drinking is an extremely dangerous condition, since an alcoholic can simply bring himself to death. Therefore, if you see that the usual use of alcohol has passed into the stage of hard drinking, it is necessary to stop the drinking husband. What to do in such a situation:

call " ambulance". Doctors in similar cases limited to injections of "Dimedrol", "magnesia". This, of course, is not enough to stop the binge, but it will already alleviate the condition of a person; call a narcologist at home. Now there are a lot of narcologists practicing privately. This pleasure is not cheap, but when the question is about life and death, you should not skimp to save your loved one. Such specialists always have a set of drugs with them that can quickly bring a person out of hard drinking. But there is one point: if an alcoholic is deeply drunk, then resorting to this kind of help is fraught with complications; go to drug treatment center.

The option is good because there the alcoholic will quickly “bring to his senses”. But the problem is that they are taken to the drug dispensary only with the consent of the alcoholic (and this, as a rule, becomes a problem) and they must be registered (which in some cases is also fraught: for example, many are afraid that someone will find out at work, yes and for most people, dispensary registration is a kind of “stigma”); try to solve the problem on your own, at home. In fact, many women resort to this method to stop their husband's binges. Although, we note that this task is quite difficult. But of course it's worth trying. In this case we are talking about general recommendations how to behave properly with a person who is in a state of binge, as well as folk methods that can help alleviate the patient's condition and bring him out of the crisis. Since it is strictly forbidden to get a person out of binge on their own with the help of medications, we will dwell in more detail on how you can help a relative at home so as not to harm him in the first place.

Below are the rules that you must adhere to when helping a relative at home. The most important thing is not to harm a person, so all your actions must be balanced and conscious. So, how to stop a drinking husband and what to do for this:

• the most important thing is to know when is the best time to act. When a husband is in a state of deep intoxication, in no way should one resort to any measures. The ideal time is when he overslept, sobered up and begins to feel a hangover. When a person shakes, vomits, the heart and pressure go off scale, know that the perfect moment has come to start active actions. Usually alcoholics themselves ask to help them with at least something to make it easier, and they are ready for a lot;
• Never give an alcoholic in a state of binge any drugs. It is very important! Even if a person in a sober state takes some kind of medication, and you know for sure that they help him, it is strictly forbidden to do this in a state of deep intoxication and hard drinking. Only a doctor can give medicine;
• do not let an alcoholic get drunk;
• give the person plenty of fluids. Banned: black tea, coffee. energy and alcoholic drinks. Suitable juices, fruit drinks, compotes, decoctions, pure or mineral water, green tea. Great if the drinks contain a large number of vitamin C;
• protect the person from any physical activity. When coming out of a binge, he should lie in bed as much as possible;
• do not allow a person to take a hot bath, but a room temperature shower will be good: it will refresh and invigorate the patient a little.

There are also psychological aspect, which also has great importance when it comes to such serious condition like drinking. It has already been said that it is important to wait for the moment when the person begins to experience a hangover and beg you for help. But you must be prepared for the fact that until the moment when he asks you for help, he will demand, beg that you give him a hangover. He can threaten, make you feel guilty (for example, if you don’t give him a drink, he will die, and his death will be on your conscience), etc. Do not react to these manipulations in any way. But you should not blame the alcoholic in response, criticize, exhort, convince: you know very well that this will lead to nothing. Be calm, benevolent and show participation and sympathy, because alcoholism is a disease. This is how you treat native person like a sick person.

How to help someone sober up

You already know that all measures to remove an alcoholic from hard drinking should be started only when he has sobered up a little. In order to speed up this moment, you can take the following measures:

• if an alcoholic does not have heart disease, you can prepare this tincture: in 1 tbsp. water of normal temperature drip 2-5 drops of ammonia and give the patient a drink. But if a person has any problems with the heart, in no case do not resort to this method, but go straight to the next step;
• shower. It has already been said that a room temperature shower would come in handy. But it happens that it is difficult to take a shower. Then just put the person in the bath and pour cool water on top of him for about 15 minutes. Then take a full bath of water at room temperature and let the person lie in it for 15-20 minutes too. At this time, you must be with him so that the patient does not accidentally choke and drown;
• detoxification procedure, or cleansing the body of traces of the breakdown of alcohol. This stage includes cleansing procedures (enemas, etc.) and the use of absorbent agents.

The most correct - A complex approach to cleanse the body. What steps do you need to take at this stage:

gastric lavage

1 liter of water, 0.5 tbsp. l. salt, 0.5 tbsp. l. soda. Mix everything so that soda and salt dissolve in water. Give the patient a drink. Then press on the root of his tongue to induce a gag reflex

enema

There can be several options for enemas, for example: for 1.5 - 2 liters of water, take 1 tbsp. l. honey and dissolve it in water; in full of water thermos to fall asleep 1-2 tbsp. l. chamomile flowers and insist for 15 minutes, strain, squeeze, add water until the initial volume is obtained. Choose any option and do an enema that will cleanse the body of feces poisoned with poison. How can you additionally detoxify with other means?

Detox at home: how to do it

The procedure for removing a person from hard drinking primarily consists in cleansing the body. The procedure for cleansing the body of alcohol and traces of its decay can be carried out independently, observing some rules:

• give the patient Activated carbon(at the rate of 1 tablet per 10 kg of human weight);
• give the patient 1 tbsp. warm milk, having previously dissolved 1 tsp in it. honey. This tool removes toxins well;
• give a person cucumber or cabbage pickle, Apple juice, berry juice. All acidic drinks well neutralize the poisons that are formed as a result of the breakdown of ethanol;
• give the patient vitamins B and C;
• mix well 1 liter of water and 0.5 liter of kefir, generously salt the mixture, add 1 tbsp. l. Sahara. Let the patient drink this cocktail in one gulp;
• during the day, let the patient drink a decoction of wild rose. If a person cannot drink due to nausea, add ice to the decoction (and any other drinks that you will give);
• do not put pressure on the person psychologically. Don't blame, don't judge, don't criticize. If you are too sore and seething in your soul, you will still have the opportunity to tell your husband everything you want. But now, believe me, he is already so bad. Show participation and sympathy, provide him with sound sleep, peace and quiet.

If you see that the patient is getting worse and your methods do not help, do not be shy - call the ambulance team.

How to stop drinking: folk remedies

Traditional healers offer their own remedies that can help get a person out of hard drinking. Mostly they consist of medicinal plants. The following are recipes that have already proven their effectiveness:

• on a thermos full of boiling water, take 3 tbsp. l. thyme. Insist for 1 hour. Drink the infusion for 4 weeks, 2 times a day. This remedy, as practice shows, not only helps in getting out of hard drinking, but also causes an aversion to alcohol;
• brew a rosehip broth according to the same recipe as thyme, but you need to insist about 1.5 - 2 hours. Give to the patient, especially if he is tormented by vomiting and nausea;
• sour cabbage soup, hot soup or beef broth lightly salted oatmeal excellent sources to restore strength. Even if the patient eats a couple of spoons of food, he will already feel better;
• A great option is vitamin C effervescent tablets. Give a person 1 tablet - it will quickly make up for its deficiency in the body;
• helps a lot egg(raw). Salt it and let the person drink. This will improve his condition.

The recovery period after binge can last from a day to several days. It all depends on age, health status, duration of drinking. Therefore, such a regimen and diet must be observed for several days. Note that withdrawal from hard drinking is not a treatment for alcoholism as such. But this is a good chance to convince a person of the need for a decision to be treated. While fresh impressions from terrible state, there is every chance that the person will admit that he is an alcoholic and this needs to be treated. The main thing is not to put it off indefinitely, but to contact a narcologist so that he can prescribe a course of treatment that will help get rid of the disease, and not just relieve symptoms that are dangerous to health and life.

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1. The first stage of alcoholism is the stage of mental dependence. At this time, alcohol becomes constantly necessary for a person in order to forget about troubles, facilitate contact with others, and emotionally relieve himself.
A characteristic feature of this stage is ingenuity. A person comes up with a variety of reasons to drink. They even came up with a special short anecdote- about the "alcohol calendar".
Spending on alcohol begins to seem to the drinker the most important. Bottles of "swill" of varying quality and value are often used to spend money intended for more necessary things - food for the family, clothes and other consumer goods. If such a person, for example, is sent to the market to buy food for a week, he will definitely spend part of the money on a bottle of alcohol. He may begin to hide from his family or hide empty bottles in a secluded place. And when their warehouse is discovered, lie that it has nothing to do with it - the containers were planted by enemies. Most often, these are harmful passers-by, guests who come to the house, the former owners of this housing, or in general, almost aliens.

In particularly curious cases, the bottles were drunk by their own or neighbor's children or a wife and mother-in-law, who scold him for his penchant for drinking, but secretly do the same ...
All this means two things. Firstly, a person is still ashamed of the fact that he behaves unreasonably. Secondly, he cannot overcome the craving for alcohol.
At this stage, a person's threshold of sensitivity to alcohol decreases. He no longer gets drunk as quickly as before - for intoxication he needs a dose of 2-3 times more than before. The gag reflex, invented by nature specifically to remove a dangerous dose of alcohol, which is a protective mechanism of the body, gradually disappears. The disappearance of the gag reflex indicates addiction to large doses.
A person loses control over the amount of alcohol consumed and over the situation when it is necessary to stop drinking. Once he starts drinking, he cannot stop and gets drunk to the point of heavy intoxication. He starts drinking anywhere and with anyone. Then he starts appearing drunk anywhere. That is, by the end of the first stage, a person is already waving his hand at the fact that in one situation or another, appearing in public in a state of intoxication threatens him with serious troubles.

Then the stage of physical dependence develops. Now the regular intake of alcohol in the body becomes necessary because for many years of constant drinking in the body, the course of biochemical processes has changed. Without regular intake of alcohol, the body is no longer able to function normally. The most dangerous at this stage is the defeat of internal organs. The liver, which takes the brunt of it, is especially affected. An alcoholic can develop diseases such as chronic alcoholic hepatitis (inflammation of the liver), cirrhosis of the liver, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. Very often a person's heart suffers. In addition, if the next dose of alcohol does not enter the body, this already threatens mental disorders, insomnia or nightmares. Without vodka, there may be a headache, thirst, loss of appetite, muscle tremors.
The influence of alcohol on human behavior is also changing. If at the first stage a person after drinking becomes cheerful, cheerful, kind, then at the second stage he can become irritable, dissatisfied, picky.

Usually the coming home of such a person ends in scandals and fights.

3. At the third stage of alcoholism, personality degradation occurs. An alcoholic loses ties with loved ones, becomes indifferent to them. He neglects the elementary rules of morality and ethics, indifferent to his behavior. He no longer cares about his own reputation. He doesn't care what people say about him.
It is at this stage that a person's memory deteriorates and intelligence decreases. There may be problems at work. Man is weakening internal organs refuse to work normally: their natural functions are seriously impaired by years of drinking.
According to unofficial statistics, every sixth inhabitant of Russia suffers from alcoholism. Approximately half of them are officially accounted for - every fifteenth. Average duration the life of such people is 51 years. But some alcoholics do not live up to the age of 35.

What are they dying from?
* 18.7% - from diseases of internal organs.
* 15.3% - from diseases of the cardiovascular system.
* 12.7% of lives are claimed by oncology.
* 6% - lesions of the central nervous system.
* Another 4.7% is due to other diseases.
* 8% of alcoholics leave our world by suicide.
* 10% become victims of accidents.
* 7.3% die a violent death.
The numbers corresponding to these causes of death are two to three times lower among nonalcoholics.

It so happens that the binge becomes for drinking man a frequent occurrence. The fact that a husband in a binge is a terrible burden will be confirmed by any wife. Who, if not them, the wives of alcoholics are well aware that when a husband drinks heavily, this is a real tragedy.

Why does my husband drink and can't stop

If you objectively recall everything that preceded falling into a drunken state, only not in a day, and not even in a week, but the events of six months, even better than a year ago, it “suddenly turns out” that the husband for some reason healthy lifestyle did not lead a life. And it's not nonsense that he did not miss the opportunity to drink, that he tried to celebrate any event, as it should be with a good dose of alcohol taken on his chest. At feasts and parties, the person who drinks the most and most of all, of course, stands out, but there is no need to rejoice at this fact. Quite the opposite - it is not the ability to drink, it is the alcoholized organism that gets so used to alcohol that it, in turn, acts much weaker than on the rest, who drink rarely and little by little. So why did the head of the family with such an experience suddenly forgot how to drink like everyone else, and now he gets drunk and, what is especially sad, cannot stop at all?

The thing is that ethyl alcohol, which is present in any alcoholic drink, now affects it differently than healthy person. Namely, alcohol lined up in the biochemistry of his metabolism, moreover, he can now control it. still not without booze. After a man is completely drunk and on the third day is not more sober than at the end of the first, it is time to sound the alarm. After all, this is no longer a hangover as such - this is an abstinence syndrome. Only a drunkard can still oversleep and stop, for example, when he drank all the money and there is simply nothing more to buy wine. An alcoholic husband does not calm down, as a rule, he is tormented by alcoholic insomnia, and even if he is poured wine, vodka, moonshine as a medicine, even if only a little bit, this will only work for a very short time, about half an hour and the condition will only worsen. This is the surest sign of a drunken state.

Not all drugs for binge are useful

Therefore, when a husband in a binge once again asks him to help, begs him to pour, they say, otherwise he will die to indulge him and rush to do it, as he wants it is not necessary - it will not help anyway. Here you need to be patient and in no case try to solve the problem in the simplest (in fact, the most dangerous way) potent medications it is better not to give at all, phenazepam and other tranquilizers as hypnotics and sedatives, corvalol, valocordin, valoserdin, and other drugs containing phenobarbital, as well as any other types of barbiturates are contraindicated. In general, you need to be extremely careful with medicines for a drunkard, because his body is seriously weakened by chronic alcohol intoxication, and at this moment the usual medicines, head pills can work, not as expected, but in a completely different way. Even worse, when looking at her husband, drinks, and uses barbiturates to fall asleep, then the whole family must be treated in a hospital, there is no other way.

What to do when the husband is drunk

In general, with a serious binge (from three days of continuous drinking and more), it is rather presumptuous to use folk methods for relieving a hangover syndrome, as they say, this is not the case. Not to say, of course, that all this is completely useless, only in the vast majority of cases it is like a pellet to an elephant, and the severity of the problem can only grow. Therefore, if the binge is not the first and not the second, and health is no longer distinguished by a special strength, in the best possible way there will be an appeal to medical specialists. Yes, not to any doctor - but to a narcologist or toxicologist, if one is found. Now calling a narcologist at home is not a problem at all in any city, especially since Moscow does not have to be afraid of drug registration, if a narcologist treats for a fee, then anonymity is guaranteed. Perhaps that would be the most correct way. The doctor will need to be asked what to do so that the binges do not return and, just in case, write down the contact details of both the doctor and the clinic from which he works (just in case).