Stop Drinking Alcohol: Drinking and Driving – Suffering From Alcoholism

by Anderson Mancini

In high school, my brother and his classmates were shocked when the principal, in a broken voice over the loudspeaker, announced that one of their classmates had been killed in a car wreck the night before. He was only seventeen years old.
Perhaps ironically, many of those who are the offenders- the very ones who are drunk and behind the wheel, often survive without even so much as a scratch on them. This leaves so many of us feeling hurt, ashamed, angry and heartbroken. How could someone be so irresponsible? We question the motives behind each incident and wonder what we could have done beforehand to have helped the situation have a different outcome. For some people, drinking is a learned habit from the household that they are in. For instance, from a young age (probably around 11 years old), one of my best friends (who I’m still friends with to this day) had parents who liked to party. It was not uncommon to see them hosting a party at their gigantic house almost every couple of weekends.
While it was strangely fascinating at that age to see grown ups behaving so funny, it wasn’t until later on that I realized that sometimes, it’s not all fun and games. I remember inviting this friend over to my house for a sleepover. My friend wound up staying almost two full days before her mom came and picked her up late the next night. I was too young to notice anything at that age except for the grim, uncomfortable expression on my mother’s face as she watched my friend and her mother drive away. It wasn’t until years later that my mother told me that my friend’s mother had been drunk the night that she came to pick her up to take her home. I was shocked. Most of all, I was in disbelief.

There was no way that I could force myself to believe that this energetic, fun, outgoing woman would be so irresponsible as to pick up my friend from our house while she was intoxicated. Weren’t grown-ups supposed to be the mature, responsible ones?
Shortly after the incident in which my friend’s mother picked her up from my house, my friend, in tears, confided in me that on more than one occasion, she had come home from school to find her mother passed out on the couch, choking on her own vomit. No one talked about it, but it was apparent that she was suffering from alcoholism or some form of it. Even though my friend only lived a couple of miles from my house, it was still more than enough time for something to have happened to both of them due to her mother’s irresponsibility. More so, her mother could have hurt someone else. It just makes me wonder how many more people there are out there who are able to skate by without ever getting caught by the police officers- who are reinforced by the fact that they got away with drunk driving once, therefore, they can get away with it again…

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