Substance abuse is a devastating reality that everyone in the USA has felt the effects of, if it isn’t you or your parents with the problem then may be a friend or a friend’s family. The sad thing is that very few people realize what substance abuse can do to your body and mind later in life, whether it is alcohol, drugs or tobacco. the lasting affects can be very disturbing.

Did you know that Alcohol and drug abuse (being usage over a period of time) can later in life cause you to have dementia . Did you know that stopping smoking after smoking for a period of time, might not stop you from having Emphysema when you get older. And the longer you use it, the more likely you will suffer from the illnesses when you are in your later years in life.

I did abuse some drugs when I was a young adult, but I have watched most all my friends and some of my family use drugs so much that the side effects are going to be devastating when they get older. I don’t understand how people can do this to themselves, or do they not know.

I hope that everyone who abuses any drug whether prescription or off the street, knows that just because a doctor gives it to you don’t make it safe. And when you abuse drugs,you are abusing yourself, and you are not the only person you are abusing, you are abusing anyone who loves you, your child, your mother or/and father, your spouse anyone who loves you. And mostly the one who will be picking up the pieces after you are no longer able to.

Drug abuse affects everyone around you, Just think for one second. Can your child see you do it ? do they know you do it ? if you answered yes to ether one of these , then you might as well just give it to them, because chances are before long they will be abusers too.

Have you lost your families respect, or your spouse, over drug abuse ? was it really worth it just to get high again?

I am grateful that I got out when I did, My children was the reason I stopped abusing drugs when I did, because I didn’t want them to go through life thinking that it was OK as long as you can quit when you want.

Big news flash: Whether it is drugs, alcohol or tobacco, if you use it long enough you wont be able to quit as easily as you might think, If you live long enough to realize what you are doing to not just yourself but everyone who loves you.

I have been a smoker (of cigs) for the last 28 years, I have tried to stop but for some reason I haven’t yet, I never, no matter how long I go without a cig, I never loose the crave for one. I can only imagine that, that is what it is like for alcoholics and drug abusers.

An addiction is for a lifetime, you are always an addict once you have been one, just by the grace of God, some people have enough willpower and strength to be recovering abusers.

Alcohol, drugs and tobacco are not good for you in any way, and if you can get by with out putting that poison in your body you should, because later in life when you don’t even know your own name, do you have someone who would give their all to care for you? And is it fair of you to ask them to?

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