A person has some problem, sense of unhappiness or hopelessness, or physical discomfort. Whether it's a teenager experiencing his first romantic rejection, or a grandmother with arthritis, or maybe it's a man in his prime, wondering why he keeps failing on the job. Or it could be someone at any age in between.
The alcohol or drugs appear to solve his problem.
He drinks or tries drugs. The alcohol or drugs apparently solve his problem. He feels better. While he now seems better suited to deal with life, the drugs become valuable to him.
Anyone gradually increases his use of his drug of choice. He is then trapped. Whatever problem he was initially trying to solve through the use of drugs or alcohol fades from memory. At this point, all he can think about is getting and using drugs. He loses the opportunity to control his usage and disregards the horrible consequences of his addiction.
He loses the ability to control his usage and disregards the horrible consequences of his addiction.
The addict will now attempt to withold the fact of his drug addiction from friends and family members. He can begin to suffer the results of his own dishonesty and guilt. He could become withdrawn and challenging to reason with. He may behave strangely.
The harder he drinks and uses drugs, the greater guilty he will feel, and the greater depression reason he will become. He'll sacrifice his personal integrity, possibly lying and stealing to advance his drinking or drug habit. His relationships with friends and family and his job performance goes drastically downhill.
4. Addiction and Tolerance
The drugs and alcohol are now the most important thing in his life. He has thrown away his job, his life-savings, his dreams and ambitions, all so that you can maintain the painkilling and emotion killing effects he once extracted from the drugs. But ironically, his power to get "high" from the alcohol abuse or drugs gradually decreases as his body adapts towards the presence of foreign chemicals. She must take more and more, and as a result has to have them to have the ability to function at all.
Because he continues to drink or use drugs, his body continues to adapt to the presence of the drugs. This is when the newly created addict starts to experience drug cravings. He can experience an overwhelming dependence on getting and using his drugs, and is going to do anything to avoid the pain of withdrawing from their store.
He has crossed an invisibile and intangible line. He is now a substance abuser or alcoholic.
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