It’s Wednesday! You know what that means—it’s hump day! That means for many people, it’s the middle of the five-day workweek. Once the workday on Wednesday ends, we’ve gotten past the hump of the workweek and are more quickly approaching the weekend of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
We all know that there are other humps in life. The obstacles can be difficulties with work, but they can also be with difficulties with families or partners, difficulties with bullies or friends, health difficulties, difficulties relating to money or living situations, other difficulties. Clearly, life can be filled with a number of humps to overcome.
People take different approaches to get them through such difficulties. Some use alcohol or drugs because these substances can make you drunk or high. These altered states can make people forget about these difficulties.
This amnesia, is temporary, however. The effects of the codeine, heroin, alcohol, or whatever will wear off eventually. If people use drugs often, they could become dependent on them and become addicted to them. This compounds their problems, because now they’re dealing with at least two problems:
- The problem they’re trying to forget
- Drug addiction
These problems could feed on each other. For example, if people need to find jobs, using drugs can hurt people’s ability to do so. Drug use can be taking their time, energy, and money away from conducting such searches. If they don’t find jobs, people might immerse themselves deeper and deeper in their drug use as a way to ease their worries about the situations.
In addition, drug addiction isn’t really one problem. It’s several. Drug addiction often creates physical problems. If the drug problem is severe enough, these physical problems can kill.
Drug addiction can also create mental problems. If people were depressed before they started abusing drugs, they could become even more depressed during their drug use. Drug and alcohol abuse can even trigger mental conditions in people who didn’t exhibit symptoms before.
Drug abuse, too, creates problems with work and school, with relationships, with pretty much everything. It creates obstacles that can be difficult to overcome. Difficult, but entirely possible.
