When I was in the tenth grade in high school, I enrolled into a substance abuse class. At that time period, I did not understand that alcohol abuse in reality was a sub category 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 through the world. I also learned a lot about alcohol treatment and the diverse alcohol rehab clinics that are typically available to people who engage in heavy drinking.
Some of the detrimental results linked to alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class absolutely startled me. The ruined lives and many difficulties experienced by most alcohol dependent people made me feel like I never wanted to drink alcohol when I became old enough. Stated differently, I did not want to face the wreckage and devastation that alcohol dependent people almost always encounter.
Ponder upon this for a moment. What fifteen-year-old individual wants to face premature death due to his or her drinking behavior? What adolescent wants to become so out-of-control regarding his or her drinking that ingesting 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 an adult?
What young person wants to go through alcohol withdrawals when he or she tries to quit drinking? Why would an individual engage in drinking to such an extent that it would cause difficulties 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 an adolescent want to sacrifice his or her education, employment, finances, and relationships for a life that focuses on hazardous drinking?
These issues were so important that I discussed some of them in class throughout the school year. What was entirely amazing to me was the number of students who basically didn’t care about the injurious outcomes of hazardous drinking that I discussed. It was almost as if they couldn’t care less about reality and how these effects can demolish their lives. For the first time in my life I started to grasp something that my grandfather used to tell me throughout my youth: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink.
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