Alcohol abuse and the daily shift is one of casual society’s most intricate ways of convincing addicts that they’re not addicted. Any party or circle of friends can help someone make the deadly shift from casual drinker to a heavy addict. Though people don’t like to admit it, alcohol is a drug. Like any other drug, sustained use will nullify the effects any drug has on the mind. Any drug taken of a long period of time will eventually call for more and more of the drug to give you the feeling you want. The problem with alcohol is that it’s easy for people to make the shift from their priority being spending time with people and having alcohol as a perk, to focusing on alcohol with social interaction as the perk.
One of the funniest things in our society today is that almost all drugs of abuse, taken in very small moderation, are actually quite helpful to the body. The antioxidants and other chemical bonuses in a glass of wine once a night at dinner can be very healthy, but it never stops there. Human beings lack control. I think that the drugs are just a figurehead to the real problem. The real drug that humans are addicted to is recklessness. Anything that makes a human being feel like they’re stepping out of the regulated chalk-painted guidelines of modern society, however fleeting or stolen, is so exciting to someone that feels trapped by their own contributed prison.
A few people that I have talked to have said that they drink alcohol to forget about life for a while. Has anyone ever stopped to think that if all of humanity keeps sweeping their problems under the rug, eventually we’re going to be teetering on some figurative Persian mountain of insecurities gestating and festering within a lack of accountability and constantly shifting hands like a game of hot potato on a global scene? Eventually, we’re going to have to sit down and make ourselves look at why we do things, in stead of just casually pawn our problems off on party drugs that help us forget the fact that we slowly kill ourselves to escape.
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