My High School Alcohol and Drug Abuse Class

When I was a sophomore in high school, I enrolled into a substance abuse class. At that time, I did not understand that alcohol abuse in point of fact was a sub classification 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 treatment and the diverse alcohol rehab clinics that are usually available to alcohol abusers.

Detrimental Effects That are Correlated With Alcohol Addiction and Alcohol Abuse

Some of the injurious consequences associated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class absolutely alarmed me. The ruined lives and numerous difficulties experienced by most alcohol dependent people made me feel like I never wanted to drink alcohol when I became old enough. Stated briefly, I did not want to face the wreckage and devastation that alcohol addicted people almost always encounter.

Let this sink in 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 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 difficulties before he or she becomes an adult?

What young person wants to encounter alcohol withdrawals 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 an individual 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 irresponsible drinking?

These issues were so important 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 openly didn’t care about the harmful results of excessive drinking that I discussed. It was almost as if they couldn’t care less about reality and how these effects can destroy their lives. For the first time in my life I started to appreciate something that my grandfather used to emphasize throughout my teen and pre-teen years: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

It’s Important, Liberating, and Beneficial to Keep Yourself From the Unhealthy and Damaging Outcomes of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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

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