What I Learned About Alcohol and Drug Abuse in High School
When I was a sophomore in high school, I registered for a drug abuse class. At that age, I did not comprehend that alcohol abuse in reality was a sub category of drug abuse. While taking this class and learning more about drug and alcohol abuse, 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 individuals all through the world. I also learned a lot about alcohol treatment and the different alcohol rehab clinics that are normally available to individuals who engage in heavy drinking.
Some of the harmful outcomes linked to alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class certainly startled me. The ruined lives and frequent problems experienced by most alcohol dependent people made me feel like I never wanted to drink alcohol when I became old enough. That is, I did not want to face the disaster and ruination that alcohol addicted individuals almost always encounter.
Think about this for a moment. What fifteen-year-old person wants to face premature death due to his or her drinking behavior? What teenager wants to become so out-of-control regarding his or her drinking that consuming alcohol becomes the object of one’s life? What teenager 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 experience alcohol withdrawal symptoms when he or she tries to quit drinking? Why would a person engage in drinking to such an extent that it would cause problems 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 an adolescent want to sacrifice his or her education, employment, finances, and relationships for a life that focuses on abusive drinking?
These issues were so meaningful that I discussed some of them in class during the school year. What was utterly amazing to me was the number of students who basically didn’t care about the negative effects of abusive drinking that I discussed. It was almost as if they couldn’t be bothered with the truth and how these effects can shatter their lives. For the first time in my life I started to figure out 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.
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