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Miss Benning was a health instructor at the most underfinanced private high school in the county. Even though she had been teaching for only three of four years, she had already acquired a reputation as a teacher with instructional techniques that stimulated and motivated her students to think and to learn.

For example, one Friday morning she addressed the students in her classroom and announced the following: “For the next two weeks we are going to learn about some basic alcoholism facts from a general point of view and we are also going to learn about several of the most familiar signs of alcoholism from a less general and more explicit point of view.”

“Not all of these alcoholism signs will categorically reveal that a drinker with a drinking problem is a person who is addicted to alcohol, but the more signs that a person displays, the greater the probability that he or she is a person who is alcohol dependent.”

Miss Benning then informed the members of the class that each person would be responsible for researching three alcoholism signs and then presenting his or her results to the other class members via a nine minute oral presentation.

The Students are Keyed Up About Giving A Relatively Long Presentation to Their Fellow Classmates About Alcoholism Signs

After learning about the different alcohol addiction signs for a number of days, the time had finally come for the student presentations. It was immediately noticeable that the students in her class were wound up about the topic because the information that they presented was extraordinary. To say that Miss Benning was pleasantly surprised with the excitement exhibited by her students concerning this subject matter was an understatement.

The day after all of the students completed their presentations, Miss Benning passed out a sheet of paper with a list of all the alcohol addiction signs that were presented and discussed in the presentations and in class. Miss Benning then asked her pupils to go over the list and rank the top nine alcohol dependency signs that were most indicative of alcoholism. After about fifteen minutes, Miss Benning collected the pieces of paper and informed the students in her classroom that after she studies the numbers, she will present her findings the next school day.

There was a real buzz by the students while they were walking out of Miss Benning’s classroom. One could swear that her students couldn’t wait for the next day to arrive so that they could learn about the results of their in-class research.

The Students Contrast Their Answers With the Findings From A Panel of Alcohol Dependency Experts

When the next school day arrived, Miss Benning passed out a piece of paper that listed the top four alcohol dependency signs according to the pupils’ rankings. To the left of these results, she added another column that was labeled “experts’ response.” She then explained to the pupils in her classroom that the numbers in the new column she added signified the findings that were announced by a council of chemical dependency authorities.

Miss Benning told the pupils in her class to go over the information on the sheet of paper she handed out and then to raise their hand if they had any issues, questions, or concerns. Within 30 or 40 seconds, almost every student in the class raised her or his hand. It was obvious that the pupils had some questions, concerns, or issues about their results versus the answers given by the professionals. For example, almost every person in the classroom had an issue with the highest ranked answer given by the experts, namely, “Do you feel really nauseous when you quit drinking?”

The Major Difference Between Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Addiction is the Physical Dependency That is Experienced With Alcohol Dependency and Not With Alcohol Abuse

Miss Benning then told the pupils in her classroom why this answer was the most clear-cut indicator of alcohol dependency. She highlighted the fact that the most important difference between alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction is the physical dependency that is experienced with alcohol dependency and not with alcohol abuse.

Essentially this means that when an individual who is alcohol dependent all of a sudden quits drinking, he or she will go through alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

Miss Benning then informed her students that alcohol withdrawal symptoms are responses by the body and by the brain to the deficiency of alcohol to which they had become acclimated. Stated differently, alcohol withdrawal symptoms are signals from the body and from the brain telling an alcohol addicted person that something is very out of kilter and needs to be fixed. These messages consist of a number of dangerous, painful, and uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms that can potentially lead to a person’s death if the proper therapy is not promptly received.

Miss Benning then discussed the multitude of alcohol withdrawal symptoms that can be gone through when a person who is addicted to alcohol abruptly stops drinking.

The fact that Miss Benning tried to highlight was this: a person who engages in alcohol abuse can experience almost any and every one of the alcoholism signs that the students had ranked, but the one symptom or sign that few, if any, alcohol abusers ever experience is alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

To state this as plainly as possible, Miss Benning underscored the point that alcohol abusers, unlike people who are alcohol dependent, are not alcohol dependent and as a consequence, when they quit drinking, they almost never go through alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

The Pupils Feel They Have Uncovered A Variance With the Findings From The Council of Drug and Alcohol Addiction Experts

The pupils also some difficulty with the second ranked answer given by the alcohol dependency authorities, to be exact, “Have you ever had a drink the first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover?”

Miss Benning explained to her pupils that this sign does not automatically denote that the problem is alcoholism, but that it does highlight the need that alcoholics have to drink in order to avert alcohol withdrawals.

After Miss Benning explained the significance of alcohol withdrawal symptoms in the life of the alcohol addicted person, the students started to recognize the basic difference between alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency.

To add a sense of closure to the subject matter, Miss Benning asked the pupils in her classroom to take out a piece of paper and answer the following question: “if every individual who is an alcoholic knew about every one of the alcohol dependency signs and alcohol withdrawal symptoms we have studied, what percentage of them do you think would seek alcoholism rehab?”

After roughly five or six minutes, Miss Benning asked for the pupils’ answers. While many pupils figured that approximately 85 to 95 percent of people who are alcohol dependent would get alcohol rehabilitation if they knew about the facts related to alcoholism signs and alcohol withdrawal symptoms, most of the pupils reasoned that this number would not be less than 70 percent.

The Pupils Were Astonished to Find Out That Only 25% of Individuals Who are Alcohol Dependent in the United States Obtain Alcohol Addiction Treatment

To the amazement of most of the students, Miss Benning acknowledged that according to different scientific examinations, only 25% of the people who are addicted to alcohol in the United States obtain alcohol rehab. This shocked most of the students because they reasoned that first-hand knowledge of the alarming facts and statistics correlated with alcohol dependency would motivate most of the alcohol addicted individuals to get alcohol rehab.

Miss Benning then stated that alcohol dependent individuals not only need alcohol on a daily basis in order to function but they also need alcohol on an everyday basis so they can avoid possible alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Apparently, the alcohol dependent individual’s need to drink on a daily basis is more powerful than facts or logic. Without a doubt, because the craving for alcohol is “reality” to the alcohol addicted individual, this is a demanding issue that is difficult to reverse.

A few minutes later the bell rang, indicating that the end of class had arrived. Based on the excitement manifested by the students when they were leaving the room, Miss Benning recognized that she had inspired and stimulated her pupils to stop and think about an important health and social problem that exists in our culture.

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