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It’s no easy path recovering from addictions but Jim Carter is fortunate the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t raising hell for him the way it is for many others who are fighting daily battles with demons like alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, opioids, and other substances.
The halt to in-person support gatherings has created a new challenge for addicts. Alcohol sales are skyrocketing and that’s just one measure of how the coronavirus is impacting those with a dependency on booze. Finding statistics on how the virus has negatively affected other sources of addiction, including illegal drugs, is more difficult to document but it’s a reality only the delusional will deny.
Socially, emotionally, physically and economically the pandemic is disrupting lives for millions of Americans. Those with addictions are among the most vulnerable because in the face of adversity they are likely to abandon the things keeping them on the right path. It’s a reality that Carter, a recovering addict since 2003, learned long ago.
“The truth of it is in some cases, because of our disease, because of our addiction, we look for any excuse to say, ‘Oh, screw this, I am going back out. Oh, I need a drink. I need to go place a bet. This life is too hard. This corovavirus is too confining.’ …Many, many addicts—given any reason—they will grab it and say I gotta go act out because of that.”
Carter, the Golden Gophers 1969 football captain and for most of the 1970s a linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, believes once the coronavirus epidemic passes the damage done to the addiction population could be eye-catching. “The recidivism rate is high in the addiction field,” he told Sports Headliners in a telephone interview.
Suicide in the coming weeks and months will even be the ultimate ending for some with addictions. Whether it’s relapse or ending one’s life, a culprit during these times is the isolation caused by the pandemic. Government guidelines have for now done away with small gatherings of support groups.
Without those social resources involving other people, addicts can also stop doing their daily individual work like a 12-step program that keeps them on track with guiding principles for recovery. Addicts can be drawn to isolation, not reaching out to friends by telephone for dialogue and support. “Addicts are the only people in the world that try to solve loneliness by isolating,” Carter said.
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It’s no easy path recovering from addictions but Jim Carter is fortunate the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t raising hell for him the way it is for many others who are fighting daily battles with demons like alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, opioids, and other substances.
The halt to in-person support gatherings has created a new challenge for addicts. Alcohol sales are skyrocketing and that’s just one measure of how the coronavirus is impacting those with a dependency on booze. Finding statistics on how the virus has negatively affected other sources of addiction, including illegal drugs, is more difficult to document but it’s a reality only the delusional will deny.
Socially, emotionally, physically and economically the pandemic is disrupting lives for millions of Americans. Those with addictions are among the most vulnerable because in the face of adversity they are likely to abandon the things keeping them on the right path. It’s a reality that Carter, a recovering addict since 2003, learned long ago.
“The truth of it is in some cases, because of our disease, because of our addiction, we look for any excuse to say, ‘Oh, screw this, I am going back out. Oh, I need a drink. I need to go place a bet. This life is too hard. This corovavirus is too confining.’ …Many, many addicts—given any reason—they will grab it and say I gotta go act out because of that.”
Carter, the Golden Gophers 1969 football captain and for most of the 1970s a linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, believes once the coronavirus epidemic passes the damage done to the addiction population could be eye-catching. “The recidivism rate is high in the addiction field,” he told Sports Headliners in a telephone interview.
Suicide in the coming weeks and months will even be the ultimate ending for some with addictions. Whether it’s relapse or ending one’s life, a culprit during these times is the isolation caused by the pandemic. Government guidelines have for now done away with small gatherings of support groups.
Without those social resources involving other people, addicts can also stop doing their daily individual work like a 12-step program that keeps them on track with guiding principles for recovery. Addicts can be drawn to isolation, not reaching out to friends by telephone for dialogue and support. “Addicts are the only people in the world that try to solve loneliness by isolating,” Carter said.
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