I really don't like reading peoples blogs about alcoholics that compare having a drink being equal to doing illegal drugs. Although the affects alcohol can take on a person being the same as drugs. It can alter your mood, affect your way of life, and potentially be dangerous for your health. The difference is, illegal drugs are just that..illegal. Alcohol is easy to get, it is legal in most places and the affects are much slower on your brain than drugs.
Having a drink occasionally does not make you an alcoholic. Having 1 drink doesn't necessarily alter your abilities. The effects are usually shorter lived than drugs and play a much lesser impact than someone injecting Heroine or snorting Cocaine.
Heroine, cocaine, meth and its little friends are made of toxic chemicals your body cannot process. Alcohol has many natural ingredients you ingest in many foods. Now I am not saying alcoholism is a good thing. It definitely is NOT.
People have asked me if I drink. I say, every now and then. Do I get drunk? No. Do I drink regularly? No. Can I go out somewhere and turn down a drink? Yes! Having a drink here and there is not the same as having drugs. It is legal!
Now some may say, smoking a joint or doing a line once every few months isn't a bad thing. Yes it is! First of all, you can't just walk into Walmart and buy illegal drugs, therefore you must break the law to get them. That makes it wrong. Even in legal marijuana states you MUST have a prescription to purchase marijuana, which then makes it medical, not illegal.
Overall, over drinking, yeah it is a bad thing.. but people, please stop treating it as, ' if you have one drink, you are an alcoholic drug addict'
there is a HUGE difference!
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