"What About Doing Something Else This Weekend?"

What about doing something else this weekend? Imagine a friend with a naughty smile on face, eyebrow up and post the same question; what will you think? Party, rocking music, cool place n……. what???? Is something missing? Complete weekend feeling is incomplete without drink? Today stress becomes a part of life and everyone wants easy way out that is the reason for rave parties, Alcohol parties are becoming infamous. Unknowingly we are adapting many unhealthy patterns; one of them is social acceptance of alcohol and drugs. This an alarming sign that we are at risk. Use becomes abuse and there after the path of addiction starts.

Nobody chooses to become an addict. Journey of addiction starts with curiosity and slowly it becomes habit. Within no time this habits gets converted in to need. Body and mind becomes dependent on the substance. Many times individuals with dependency try to cut down or stop drinking but they fail to do so. Then the fear of unmanageability starts and sustaining without alcohol or drug becomes difficult. Many times he/she experience withdrawals: tremors in hand, vomiting sensation, hearing voices, and delusions. Fear of not being well, poor sleep, sexual problems, death fear leads to reuse the substance and this the way addiction becomes a cycle.

Do drugs control your life? Check here

• Do you feel like you can’t stop, even if you wanted to?
• Do you ever feel bad or guilty about your drink/drug use?
• Do you need to use drink/drugs to relax or feel better?
• Do your friends or family members complain or worry about your drug/Alcohol use?
• Do you hide or lie about your drug/alcohol use?
• Have you ever done anything illegal in order to obtain drugs/drinks?
• Do you spend money on drinks/drugs that you really can’t afford?
• Do you ever use more than one recreational drug/drink at a time?

If your answer is “yes” to one or more of the questions, you may have a drug problem.

Disease of addiction

Loss of control, craving and persistent drug or alcohol use despite adverse health and social consequences are some of the common features of the disease called Addiction. Job, family, health, marriage, self and social image become secondary and alcohol or drugs turn into top priority for the individual with addiction. He is not responsible for the disease but he can take the responsibility for recovery.

Addiction is treatable and all that is required from the individual is to have the willingness to take the first step towards drug/alcohol free life. Change in attitude & thought process helps to preserve the changes made during the treatment. Support from family, friends and peers make recovery path easy & most important the acceptance from society make it strong.

Lastly, I would like to mention that weekends defiantly deserve relaxation, out of box things & excitement but it is up to us to discover healthy additional activities or in addictive activities. So make a chose ...............Pay the price................ 

HAVE A SAFE & HAPPY WEEKEND.