Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Personal Assessment
Alcohol and drug abuse is one of the major problems in today's society that continues to affect many young people. I have witnessed many young people about my age trying alcohol and drug abuse for various reasons including peer pressure. Some of these people try the substances for a short period of time and stop while others are engaged in a long-term struggle of substance abuse that sometimes last for a lifetime. Young people usually attempt to abuse different kinds of substances such as cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol, prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and household chemicals or inhalants. Alcohol and drug abuse has also affected some of my family members and generated considerable negative impacts and health outcomes.
Personal Impact of Substance Abuse
Generally, substance abuse has made a personal impact on me because of the experience of my sister whose struggle with alcohol and drugs was brought by peer pressure. My sister was 10 years old when she started abusing alcohol and other drugs. This problem started after she joined a local school where her best friend was an addict. Her friend's addiction was influenced by the fact that the parents constantly abused drugs and got her into it. As a result of their friendship, my sister got into drugs and has struggled to overcome addiction despite recognizing the negative impacts of this problem. The addiction problem started by taking pills that she was given by the friend who got them from her mother. She started using these pills consistently, especially while on her way home after school. This developed into an addiction where she would take a bunch of pills, drink a lot of alcohol, and even smoke marijuana.
While several attempts have been made to help deal with the addiction, these efforts have not yielded positive results since the situation is gradually become worse over time. My sister's addiction problem has been compounded by her rebellion and stubbornness against all authority figures including parents and teachers. Currently, she cannot tolerate listening to any of us and is constantly drunk or high on drugs. From my analysis, she has become dependent on alcohol and drugs for survival to an extent she seemingly cannot do without them. Moreover, she would go to any extent including stealing in order to get the money for buying alcohol and other drugs. Therefore, she needs help to recover from addiction and start her life afresh while restoring the broken relationships with family members.
This experience has created a desire for me to conduct a research on the issue of alcohol and drug abuse. The desire to research on this topic has also been influenced by other experiences I've witnessed among my schoolmates and some of my friends. One of my schoolmates who are currently recovering from the addiction was affected by this problem even before he had a choice. His parents were drug addicts and divorced when he was 9 years because problems brought by their increased substance abuse. The divorce had significant impacts on him and acted as a major factor that prompted him to get into drugs by age 12. He stated that alcohol and drugs became a companion through which he could overcome the pain and suffering from his parents' divorce. While he started the recovery process before he became totally dependent on substances, these drugs affected his health, academics, and life in general. As a result of the substance abuse, he also became a sex addict, which was accompanied by some sexually transmitted diseases.
The other instance that made alcohol and drug abuse a topic of interest is the case of a friend whose life has completely deteriorated because of addiction. She has been admitted to three different drug addiction recovery programs at different times but escaped and relapsed to substance abuse. Her addiction with alcohol and drug abuse started after she was raped after attending a friend's birthday party. At the party, she drunk and woke the following morning from a blackout in which she realized she had been raped. While she did not remember the specific events that led to the rape, the other people in the party helped her recall everything when she woke up from the blackout. This incident affected her to an extent that she got into drugs as a means of overcoming the trauma associated with rape. Since then, she has struggled with substance...
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