What I Learned About Alcohol and Drug Abuse in High School
Writing by forestthornbarg on Wednesday, 4 of November , 2009 at 8:24 pm
When I was in the tenth grade in high school, I registered for a substance abuse class. At that time, I did not understand that alcohol abuse in truth was a sub division of drug abuse. While taking this class and learning more about drug and alcohol abuse and particularly about alcohol side effects, I read a lot about Alcoholic Anonymous, their meetings, how their programs have twelve steps, and how successful the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery program has been for people all through the world. I also learned a lot about alcohol rehabilitation and the different alcohol rehab facilities that are regularly available to people who engage in excessive drinking.
Dangerous Effects That are Linked to Alcohol Dependency and Alcohol Abuse
Some of the dangerous effects linked to alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class without a doubt frightened me. The ruined lives and countless difficulties experienced by most alcohol addicted people made me feel like I never wanted to drink alcohol when I became old enough. In short, I did not want to face the damage and devastation that alcohol dependent people almost always go through.
Think about this for a moment. What fifteen-year-old individual wants to face premature death due to his or her drinking behavior? What adolescent wants to become so out-of-control regarding his or her drinking that drinking alcohol becomes the object of one’s life? What teen wants to go to one of the local alcoholic rehabilitation centers to deal with alcohol-related problems before he or she becomes twenty-one?
What adolescent wants to deal with alcohol withdrawals when he or she tries to stop drinking? Why would a person engage in drinking to such an extent that it would cause difficulties in every area of his or her life? Drinking later in life after a person has a career, a family, and develops personal responsibilities makes sense. But why would a teenager want to sacrifice his or her education, employment, finances, and relationships for a life that revolves around hazardous drinking?
These issues were so important that I discussed some of them in class throughout the school year. What was entirely amazing to me was the number of students who basically didn’t care about the negative outcomes of hazardous drinking that I talked about. It was almost as if they couldn’t be bothered with reality and how these results can destroy their lives. For the first time in my life I started to grasp a saying that my grandfather used to say to me all through my youth: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
It’s Important, Beneficial, and Liberating to Stay Away From the Damaging and Unhealthy Outcomes of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
And even at my young age, I also started to understand how important, liberating, and beneficial it is in life to remove yourself from the unhealthy and debilitating outcomes of alcohol and drug abuse.
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