• When I was a sophomore in high school, I enrolled into a drug abuse class. At that time period, I did not understand that alcohol abuse in point of fact was a sub category of drug abuse. While taking this class and learning more about drug and alcohol abuse and above all 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 over the world. I also learned quite a bit about alcohol rehabilitation and the different alcohol rehab facilities that are commonly available to individuals who engage in hazardous drinking.

    Damaging Effects That are Associated With Alcohol Dependency and Alcohol Abuse

    Some of the negative end results related to alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class unquestionably worried me. The ruined lives and abundant serious issues 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 dependent people 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 ingesting 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 difficulties before he or she becomes twenty-one?

    What young person wants to encounter alcohol withdrawals when he or she tries to stop drinking? Why would an individual 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 an individual 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 centers on irresponsible drinking?

    These issues were so meaningful that I talked about some of them in class during the school year. What was utterly unbelievable to me was the number of students who simply didn’t care about the detrimental results of excessive drinking that I talked about. It was almost as if they couldn’t be bothered with reality and how these effects can demolish their lives. For the first time in my life I started to understand something that my grandfather used to articulate all through my youth: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

    It’s Beneficial, Important, and Energizing to Remove Yourself From the Unhealthy and Debilitating End Results of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

    And even at my young age, I also started to comprehend how important, beneficial, and enlivening it is in life to keep away from the destructive and unhealthy results of alcohol and drug abuse.