Shocking Discoveries About Drug and Alcohol Abuse in High School

August 11th, 2009 by Weight-Loss-Mandy

When I was in the tenth grade in high school, I registered for a substance abuse class. At that time period, I did not understand 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 diverse alcohol rehab facilities that are habitually available to problem drinkers.

Some of the dangerous end results correlated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class absolutely startled me. The ruined lives and frequent serious issues 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 damage and destruction that alcohol dependent individuals almost always experience.

Reflect on 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 adolescent wants to go to one of the local alcoholic rehabilitation centers to deal with alcohol-related issues before he or she becomes an adult?

What adolescent wants to experience alcohol withdrawal symptoms when he or she tries to quit drinking? Why would an individual 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 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 revolves around hazardous drinking?

These issues were so noteworthy that I talked about some of them in class during the school year. What was absolutely astonishing to me was the number of students who simply didn’t care about the damaging effects of hazardous drinking that I talked about. It was almost as if they couldn’t be troubled with reality and how these outcomes can demolish their lives. For the first time in my life I started to understand a saying that my grandfather used to tell me all through my younger years: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink.

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