Alcohol Cause and Effect

Alcohol cause and effect

There are many reasons why people turn to drugs, and many reasons why they choose to get

help. Some people choose to use drugs because of pressure from family. Others feel peer

pressure from friends. Some people simply want to experiment. There are also some that

want to get away from a painful reality.

Parents and other family members do not realize the damage drugs can do, and how they can

affect their family relations. Family has the power to make people feel the need for drugs.

Recently a friend returned to a detoxification program for alcohol addiction. He was addicted

to alcohol for years, but went to rehabilitation and was clean for over ten months. His family

had been pressing him and felt he was still using drugs, even though he was clean. Due to the

pressure from his parents, he used alcohol again about a week ago for the first time in

months. He did not want to do it, but he did. For the following week, he had to keep drinking

it seemed just to survive it, or else he would go through withdrawal. He is now in

detoxification for a week, and plans to stay clean. He knows he messed up by using that one

last time, but he felt he needed it, and that is why he is getting help.

Pressure from one's peers can cause a person to use drugs. If a teenager is at a party and there

is marijuana around, they may feel they need to smoke the marijuana to be accepted. If

everyone at the party is smoking, the teen may think he or she will be criticized or ridiculed

if they do not smoke with the other people at the party.

There are times in one's life where they are in an experimental phase. Many times this comes

around the time of adolescence. Adolescents may feel the need to try all kinds of things to

learn