My uncle was a good man with a good job, a good family, good health...But alcohol destroyed his life and kinda our family circle. He was an alcohol addict since a lot ago but it wasn't that obvious, then the addiction became harder than the years before.
- IN HALF AND A YEAR HE CHANGED AND RUINED HIS LIFE TO THE DEEPEST.
One day I woke up and my mom told me that my uncle and aunt were going to divorce...The cause? We knew it later. He hit her, punch her and insulted her in front of their 4 children (around 7-13- years at that moment), so imagine how traumatic it was for em.
His aggresive behavior was there few years before, but we didn't know about it.
Then he got kicked from his house, and went to live with my grandma (she lives alone).
He was diagnosed with cirrhosis.... And finally he started a rehab program.. It was working (or that's what we thought), he stopped drinking for some time and was looking better (Me and part of my family wouldn't forgive his aggro behaviour and abuse attitude towards my aunt btw)
He relapsed. Since that everything went downhill as expected.
Imagine how addicted he was to the alcohol that 1-2 weeks before he passed away, he went with my grandma and my great aunt to help them with some farming things. Then they went to a Pub and he drank like 3 whiskeys in less than 30-45 minutes.
I mean, he did it in front of his mother and his aunt without caring about them. (knowing himself that he was going to die). They let him drink like that even knowing what was going to happen because there was no way to rehab.
2 days before he died he found a lot of wine bottles that were good hidden
in my grandmother's house. He drank everything he could, my grandma found him almost dead and he was admitted to the hospital.
Then he died letting her ex-wife with 4 children that were not even 14 years old.
My grandma didn't want to believe this, so she became mad (still mad today due to this and she is medicated).
My family was always had a really hard drinking habit (my grandpa died from it before I was born due to this)... My father (my uncle's brother) and other from my family still drink a lot today even after seeing what happened to other members of the family.
At least me, my brother or my cousins've never had an alcohol (or other drugs) addiction. I've chosen to live a healthy lifestyle.
And not only due to this (in fact this is not even a small part), I don't hate alcohol that much and I don't think is that evil, but seeing people addict to it around you is hard...