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Is a year away from alcohol enough to have a person quit?
my 22 year old daughter is in jail for the next year for a hit and run. If she admitted what she did they would have gone easier on her but she refused. She was also drunk when the accident happened and she revealed to me she has a drinking problem. Something I was never able to see before. So I wonder, in jail you obviously won't have access to alcohol. Is one year away from it enough to be able to give it up? If so, then maybe a year in jail won't be a bad thing for her and she will learn some discipline and maybe realize because of her problem she lost her freedom.
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No, it's not.
If she really does have a drinking problem then when she gets out, she'll just go back to it.
She would have to go to programs and cut alcohol out of her life completely. If she even has one drink, she can slip back into drinking again.
I've known someone who has gotten in trouble with the law and she was drunk. She's out of all that now but she is drunk all the time. Your daughter may not be that bad but that's just the cycle.
She gives it up when she wants to. No one can force her.
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No it isn't. Whether you believe alcoholism to be a disease or not, the reason why people often refer to it as a disease is because it doesn't just go away. It's always there under the surface and someone affected by it must work very hard to keep it under control. This often means cutting alcohol out entirely from their lives permanently. It can never be just one drink and it will end in another disaster. I know you're really just looking for reassurance that everything is going to be okay, but it's better to have the truth isn't it? Once she gets out, keep an extra close eye on her and try to get her help if she needs it, which she probably will. If she's going to be without alcohol for a year, she may want to go straight to the bar once she's free. Jail isn't effective therapy. It may even make matters worse for her to be around the types of people that are in jail with her. The fact that she refused to even admit what she'd done is a bad sign that she's going down the wrong path already. You should be really concerned about her so that you are prepared for when she gets out. If you want to brush everything off and believe that everything will be great and that jail will somehow fix her, you'll be 10 steps behind. Good luck.
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