What Are The Signs?

What are the signs for sum1 with a drinking problem and a drug problem?

Signs and and symptoms of drug/alcohol addiction:

Addiction: A chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain.

Cravings: A powerful, often uncontrollable desire for drugs.

Developing Tolerance: a condition in which higher doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect as experienced initially; often leads to physical dependence.
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A compulsive and destructive use of mind-altering substances despite adverse medical, psychological, and social consequences. It can affect the central nervous system, liver, kidneys, and blood.

Using to escape reality, pain, sadness, loneliness, etc, etc... Using to feel confident in yourself. Using because you feel you can't feel normal without it. These are all signs of addiction.

To get away from drugs and alcohol and gain a productive life, you must first want help. Then you must take the actions it takes to get the help. Then you take the help offered and take it for all it's worth.

Addiction is much like cancer... With cancer, you have to go to cemo or some type of treatment in order to get better. If you don't do the prescribed treatment, you die. Even if you do the treatments, the cancer could pop back up months or years later possibly. That's how addiction is. If you don't take the steps to get clean and stay clean, you'll eventually die of your disease (addiction). If you do take the steps, you can get better. But if you stop doing as "prescribed" to stay clean/sober, your addiction will flare right back up into active addiction.

Then I'm afraid I have a drinking and drug addiction, I'm twenty years and my grandparents where drugs addicts and acholics and my sister is a alcholic and possible a drug addict and here I sit doing exactly what my grandparents did and i don't care for it stops the pain, the pain I feel is real and all I want is more drugs and alchole tomake the pain stop, I know I have a problem but I don't care, I wish I did but I don't. What can I do?

If you want more and more and you seem to not stop as like you can't get enough of it and it keeps going on and on... Then my friend thats when you'll realise you have a addiction problem and need help/support to quit or stop.

It isn't easy to get rid of the stuff you want. But thats the 1st step by getting rid of your drugs and ahochol and if you smoke too maybe good to cut down or stamp it out! Do what you can to make a mead of addiction. Good luck!

(p.s: I came from a drinking problem parent)

drinking and drugs are my only form of escape right now in my life and I just don't know what i would do if I had to stop them, I wish i was strong but I aint, and my life is going nowhere right now and all i have is my drugs and alchole, but I at least know i have a problem and that counts for sumthing right?

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Drugs and Drinking isn't really a healthy life style as you might know already. But the first thing is you have realised it by asking. If you take are of your body, your body will take care of you!

So you REALLY think drugs and alcohol are solving your problems? Unless you want to die, you can't use and drink forever sweetie. When you do quit drinking/using, the problems will still be there. They ARE there even when you're drinking/using. Why? Because you're just covering them up with substances, you're not facing them and dealing with them. I'd suggest some serious therapy and possible rehabilitation somewhere. Best of wishes to you my friend.

Psyclox…
You asked in my opinion the most important question. And the most heart breaking one when you said...

“I know I have a problem but I don't care, I wish I did but I don't. What can I do?

Here is the hard truth.

You don’t need to do anything. Just keep drinking and druging as much as you can. The pain you feel right now will be a picnic in the park compared to the pain you will feel in a year, or two or five from now.

God’s great gift to us was pain. Just the kind of pain you are feeling right now. When the pain becomes unbearable you will do one of two things.

You will admit you are powerless over your drugs of choice and you will surrender.

Or

You will stumble on blotting out the reality of your pathetic existence as best you can until you die.

This disease does not care how bad it gets for you. It will never let you go, and it will never cut you any slack.

One day you will care. I hope one day you will hurt so much that you will do anything to make the pain stop.

Then things can change,
Richard

Shadow,

That was a powerful post.

Cheers, M