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How to Protect Yourself from Drug?

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Drug and alcohol use and abuse are preventable
  • Get educated. Know the facts. Once you do, you will realize that it is not worth endangering your career, your health, your relationships, and your future.
  • Avoid peer pressure. Think ahead about how to say “NO.”
  • Avoid situations where people will be drinking and using drugs. Get involved in non-drinking activities.
  • Confront your problem, if you have one.
  • Get help for the underlying problems of family, relationships, anxiety or depression. Educate others.
How to Protect Yourself from Drug?
How do I know if I need help with my drug or alcohol problem?
  • Increased frequency of use.
  • Loss of control over frequency, duration and/or amount of use.
  • Drinking or using when you don’t intend to.
  • Substance use interferes with life activities (i.e. school, relationships with family and friends).
  • Increased spending money on substance of choice.
  • Personality changes noted by self and others.
  • Getting into risky/dangerous behaviors.
  • Other people express concern about your use/ your behavior.
  • Missing appointments.
  • Legal trouble (i.e., DUI)
When drug and alcohol use becomes severe you may experience
  • loss of friends (except perhaps other alcohol and drug users).
  • negative changes in appetite with possible weight loss.
  • possible reduction or loss of libido (sex drive) …and/or only able to perform when using.
  • extreme mood swings, including anger and depression.
  • obsessions about using or procuring drug when not under the influence.
  • lying about drug to use to friends and loved ones.
  • loss of memory for times when under the influence.
  • uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms when not using.
  • involvement in crime to support habit.
  • loss of energy and general health.
  • you are increasingly unable to believe your own denial and excuses.
How can we get help for treatment?
  • Help clarify your pattern of abuse.
  • Help identify how your life has been affected.
  • Help create strategies to decrease your use.
  • Help identify related issues that may contribute to your abuse.
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