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Why would the military have anything to do with addiction
I'm thinking just military life in general, even in peace time military life is dangerous you know you see friends killed in accidents doing their job and if you are married you are on deployment spending lots of time away from the wife and kids and the loneliness gets to you so common thing is going out with your battle buddies and getting totally drunk so you don't feel the loneliness or the memories of your friends getting killed, you drink so you don't have to feel. As a veteran in recovery I found out that all the feelings you tried to numb all come back to you after you get some sobriety. But if you are working a good program you get to deal with the memories and find out its OK to hurt once in awhile but you can handle it differently instead of drinking about it.
I blame my dip problem on the military 100%. I'm Hispanic, we don't do that crap lol I wouldn't have picked up the habit if I didn't spend months out in the field with all the country white boys. Also command had a way of screwing with the smoke pits that made me give up on cigarettes all together. I haven't smoked since then, so I guess there's a silver lining.
My understanding is today's military is against it but during my Binge drinking was the norm. If it didn't interfere with my duties my command didn't really care. They didn't encourage but tolerated and sometimes when it got a little too excessive they highly suggested AA. If it did interfere with your duties they would encourage counciling and if that didn't lead you to some kind of recovery you could end up with a medical discharge or a non compatibility discharge.
I agree with Daniel. When I was in, heavy drinking during time off was a norm. I knew my troops did it, I did it, and my peers did it as well. As long as no one showed up drunk, it wasn’t seen as a problem even if it was in actuality.