What I Learned About Substance Abuse in High School
When I was in the tenth grade in high school, I took a drug abuse class. At that age, 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, 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 over the world. I also learned a lot about alcohol treatment and the various alcohol rehab clinics that are usually available to alcohol abusers.
Some of the injurious end results correlated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class definitely startled me. The ruined lives and countless difficulties experienced by most alcohol addicted individuals made me feel like I never wanted to drink alcohol when I became old enough. In a word, I did not want to face the disaster and devastation that alcohol dependent individuals almost always go through.
Reflect on this for a moment. What fifteen-year-old 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 drinking 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 adolescent wants to encounter alcohol withdrawal symptoms when he or she tries to stop drinking? Why would an individual 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 a young person want to sacrifice his or her education, employment, finances, and relationships for a life that focuses on irresponsible drinking?
These issues were so important that I talked about some of them in class during the school year. What was entirely astounding to me was the number of students who basically didn’t care about the damaging outcomes of irresponsible drinking that I talked about. It was almost as if they couldn’t be bothered with the facts and how these results can destroy their lives. For the first time in my life I started to understand something that my grandfather used to say to 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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