Substance Abuse Counselor

Substance abuse can and does kill people every day.

A person can succumb to alcohol poisoning, take an overdose, get some bad “stuff”, anything can happen.

* For teens, substance abuse can affect their growth, their grades, their mental ability. They can become withdrawn, hostile and end up losing out on many wonderful memory making opportunities by missing out on school events, sports, dances. At once, a student can end up with grades dropping so bad that he or she could lose out on a scholarship or not getting accepted into the college of his dreams.

* If a woman is pregnant and she takes drugs, the effects of substance abuse not only affect her but her unborn child as well. First, the child could die, either in uterine or shortly after birth.  If the child does live, he or she is highly likely to be in for a lifetime of mental and physical problems such as growth development, mental development, having problems not only in school but in relationships with other children due to hyperactivity.

* Substance abuse can hurt society, too.

A person can end up committing a robbery, more and more people are getting addicted who have executive type positions in companies.  Drugs and alcohol do not care what age, gender, or culture a person is, only that there is fresh blood on the horizon for them to control.  Therefore, the effects of substance abuse can be far more outreaching as companies go bankrupt and employees lose their jobs.

* The effects of substance abuse on families are monumental.

Divorce, losing children to the system as they are either taken away from drug addicted parents or get into trouble as juveniles, all of these things can and do happen on a regular basis.  Children grow up in hostile environments when a home is controlled by substance abuse.  Domestic violence is rampant and drugs or alcohol or nearly always at the core of such calls to the police and emergency departments.

“The effects of substance abuse not only happen to the person who is addicted to drugs or controlled by alcohol. It affects to everyone in that person’s life, his family, his friends, the people driving on the opposite side of the street, his workplace, society itself. “

That is why the war on drugs affects all of us because even if we are not on drugs or drinking, we are affected by those around us who are on them whether we know who they are or not.