Relationship Between Alcohol And Domestic Violence

Alcohol and violence

According to the National Coalition against Domestic violence, in 1994 more than half of the men convicted for murdering their spouses had been under the influence on alcohol. Violence has been an ongoing act correlated with substance abuse. There are many contributing factors to how alcohol affects people; the brain, when induced with alcohol, responds differently than it would normally. According to the International Center for Alcohol policies men are not the only ones that may become violent due to alcohol, women also have the tendency to react violently. Alcohol leads to devastating situations such as miscarriages, physical abuse, mental abuse, and death. The brain is very important, because it helps
Individuals usually end up hurting those who are closer to them, because they are in the vicinity. A twenty nine year old named Arnulfo Gonzales from Orange County was charged in the murder of his friend Samuel Valdivia. Both of the men had been drinking when they broke into an argument that lead to the accused, grabbing a knife killing the victim. The murder happened on March 15, 2010 approximately eleven thirty three. “A man has been arrested in connection with stabbing his 35-year-old friend to death after the two got into an argument after they had been drinking, police said (Salazar, 2010). Due to the impairment caused by alcohol use, the accused was unable to defuse a simple argument and instead committed a crime that forever changed his life. Drinking is a contributing factor to suicide intensifying the feeling of hopelessness and helplessness. According to Dr. Alex Crosby “Alcohol leads to disinhibiting, and it can enhance feelings of hopelessness and depression”2. The reason that this happens is because when you drink you become impulsive and falsely brave making you not afraid to do things you normally would not do while sober. This is also known as the “superman” affect, thus giving a person he feeling of being invincible. Alcohol is used as a source of stress relieving, fun, and entertainment,
Family members and friends of both parties are also affected. Both must face emotions such as loss, embarrassment, responsibility, and 3despair. “Most survivors face a long period of emotional struggle to reconstruct a devastated life” (murdered). When children are brought up in a home where one or both parents drink and are violent this will sometimes cause the child to either follow the same path or tray from it. Either way the act cause the child to have physiological damage, only knowing how to be violent or to drink when they have problems. Lister here, are only some of the issues that children get from alcohol leading to violence. “physiological problems, such as hand tremors and blackouts, psychological problems, such as obsessive desire to drink, and behavioral problems that disrupt social or work life” (parsons, 2003). All the pain and suffering that comes from large amounts of alcohol consumption is massive and it is reflected through the families of all that must deal with the consequences of ones actions. Alcohol has been proven to alter your personality making you brave and can be dangerous when too much is consumed making them alcohol abusers. The problem is not the Alcohol itself, but the self-control of the individual drinking it. There have been many programs such as intervention