What Are The Effects Of Excess Alcohol Or Drug Abuse?

If you are drinking or using drugs to ease the pain or escape from some of the reality that gets dished out at you, then you may be in jeopardy of bordering on a difficult situation. Every drunk or drug abuser thinks that they can handle things, and that they won't have a problem. But things can sneak up on you in a hurry.

First of all, understand that the choice of coping with your problems in a case like this is not a good one. You are really exchanging one set of problems for a new set of problems. If you find yourself going for the bottle of booze or the bottle of drugs when things get emotionally difficult, you need to find a way to get away from those two things fast!

Alcoholism or being dependent on drugs will always seem like, "I'm only doing this once, and I just need a little hit," because you think that you will be able to control it later, and you won't be able to. The way that alcohol and drugs work is that the body becomes more and more tolerant of the alcohol or drugs each time you use them, and next time you need more just to stay even, and even more to drown your sorrows.

No, if you are in this situation, you need to find someone to talk to. A pastor of a church, a drug hotline, Alcoholics Anonymous, just some responsible person who can get you help. Because help is what you need.

If you have gone to the bottle more than once with the need to let off some steam, you are headed down the wrong road. If you go to someone who will listen to you and get you to some counseling or treatment, you are going in the right direction.