AA warning for increased alcoholism in women

• April 25, 2024

Mexico, D.F (Gladis Torres Ruiz / CIMAC) .- Although in recent years the alcoholism among Mexicans has increased, also the number of those who decide to seek help to attack the disease is increasing, currently, they constitute about 50% of the members of the group of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 24 hours free services, Mexico section, Countess matrix .

In a press conference, Guillermo L. founding member of the 24-hour international movement of AA in Mexico said that years ago, at the beginning of the movement, due to social prejudices andmachismo , women did not arrive at this kind of places.

At present in most of the 24-hour registered groups that are close to 400, there is a large number of women in recovery of all ages.

He clarified that this does not mean that the macho culture or the society that stigmatizes drinking women has changed, but that it is the women themselves who have decided to recover their dignity and the life lost with that disease. According to the National Survey of Addictions (ENA) 2008, little more than four million Mexicans presents abuse or dependence on alcohol, of these patients, 670 thousand 117 are women.

As for the "usual" consumption, that is to say, not dependent, the ENA warns that even though it is more frequent among men in a ratio of 5.8 for each woman. This way of drinking is increasing, especially among teenagers.

In the facilities of the group countess, the founder of the group Virgilio A, reported that alcohol consumption among Mexican youth is increasing, both in women and men who no longer only come with alcohol problems, but also with drug addiction problems.

Chronic and incurable disease

He stressed that this disease, diagnosed as such by the United Nations (UN), is chronic degenerative and incurable , so the members of AA, the only thing they seek is to save the lives of the people who suffer from it, as they did at the time other people with them and them.

Virgilio affirmed that the way to attack the disease is prevention, reporting in schools, and through the media, which he considered his great allies to pass on the message, helping thousands of people around the world torecover of this disease. Many people for a note or report came to the group today are active members and work with another sick or sick.

"Only he has experienced in his own life the suffering of the disease of alcoholism, only who has managed to live and understand their own suffering can transmit their agonizing experience and sow hope in another who like him, like him, identical to him , is living its own suffering ", affirmed Virgilio A.

24 hours of AA , free services, section Mexico, matrix countess, began 35 years ago, currently the movement has 400 official groups and 6 farms in the Mexican Republic, in addition to that internationally have three groups in Spain, 18 in the United States, three in Colombia and 15 in Ecuador

Their services are free, and they are maintained through their own contributions. AA does not receive help from any type of institution and the basis of his work is totally spiritual based on the 12-step program, created by Bill W. and Dr. Bob, in the United States in 1935. For more information you can call the following telephone numbers in Mexico City: 5286-1576, 5286-1593, 5286-2046.