A High School Pupil Finds Out About The Detrimental Outcomes That Are Related To Substance Abuse And Alcohol Abuse

When I was a junior in high school, I enrolled into a drug abuse class. At that time, I did not understand that alcohol abuse actually was a sub classification of drug abuse. While taking this class and learning more about drug and alcohol abuse and above all about drug abuse and alcoholism symptoms, 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 throughout the world. I also learned quite a bit about alcohol rehab and the different signs of alcoholism that are often exhibited by problem drinkers.

Some of the detrimental end results correlated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class absolutely terrified me. The ruined lives and many problems experienced by most alcohol addicted individuals made me feel like I never wanted to drink alcohol when I became old enough. Stated differently, I did not want to face the disaster and ruination that alcohol addicted people almost always encounter.

Reflect on this for a moment. What teenager wants to face premature death due to his or her drinking behavior? What young person wants to become so out-of-control regarding his or her drinking that ingesting 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 teenager wants to drink so much that he or she suffers from an alcohol overdose?

What adolescent wants to deal with alcohol withdrawal symptoms when he or she tries to stop drinking? Why would a person engage in drinking to such an extent that it would cause serious issues in every area of his or her life? Drinking later in life after an individual has a career, a family, and develops personal responsibilities makes sense. But why would a young person want to sacrifice his or her education, employment, finances, and relationships for a life that centers on irresponsible drinking?

These issues were so meaningful that I discussed some of them in class throughout the school year. What was utterly amazing to me was the number of students who basically didn't care about the detrimental outcomes of hazardous drinking that I talked about. It was almost as if they couldn't care less about the facts and how these consequences can wreck their lives. For the first time in my life I started to comprehend a saying that my grandfather used to articulate throughout my younger years: "you can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink."

And even at my young age, I also began to understand how beneficial, important, and liberating it is to remove yourself from the destructive and unhealthy end results of alcohol and drug abuse if you want to amount to anything in life.

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