The Devastating Effects Of Alcohol And Drug Abuse On Your Personal Life: An Assessment
Sometimes you do not know how much a shopping trip cost you until you look at an itemized receipt. And sometimes you don’t know how much alcohol and drugs are costing you until you assess the damage it has done to your personal life, career, and relationships.
That is what we are going to take a look at today. But first, let’s talk about how people end up here. You might have a drug or alcohol problem right now. However, no one is born an addict.
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How do Addictions Form?
Substance abuse does not come about without proper stimulus. In most cases, the “proper stimulus” is a social setting. Plenty of people have become alcoholics simply because they cannot say no to being invited out to drinks. And of course, people get addicted to party drugs like cocaine in the same way. Then there are your recreational drugs, like marijuana.
Of course, people can get into things like painkillers (and later heroin) due to a prescription. And of course, we can’t forget about all of the people who have stimulants pushed onto them by a demanding job or find themselves abusing sedatives for essentially the same reason.
Regardless of where the use of the vice starts, it can easily escalate if a person is not careful. A few drinks a week can turn into a drink a day, which can turn into a dependency. It is that simple, and it can happen so fast that it is hard to keep track of it. So, what kind of damage can this behavior do? And how do you catch it before it does too much of that damage?
The Damage of Addiction
It is best to think of the damage that this kind of dependency does in three parts: The effects on one’s physical health, the effects on one’s social life, and the effects one one’s job.
We will go over each of them individually, though there is a large amount of overlap in both what is happening and what is causing it to happen.
The Physical Effects
Getting hooked on a vice of any kind will affect how you look, though the degree to which it will affect your appearance will change based on what you are addicted to on how bad it is. For instance, getting hooked on alcohol will make you look relatively normal, even if your mannerisms and physical capabilities end up changing to accommodate signs of addiction.
