Five Reasons to Get off Drugs

There are many reasons to get off drugs if you are addicted and if you can not function without desiring a fix, a shot or a drink, you are definitely addicted.  Still, sometimes they have to be spelled out for a person.  Here are the top five.

One: Drugs can kill you. This is not a melodramatic phrase but rather a statement of fact.  Drugs can damage your brain, destroy your organs and cause life-threatening diseases.  You can die from an overdose, from alcohol poisoning, even from a bad drug that was not fixed “right” but thrown together so someone could make money.

Two: Drugs can break up families.  Drugs and alcohol are the leading reasons behind domestic violence reports.  They cause divorce, they are behind many child abuse situations, leading to relationships that are sometimes permanently impaired.

Three: Drugs can ruin finances. You could end up losing your job.  You could end up ruining your credit, going bankrupt, losing your home.  Everything you ever dreamed of or worked for could go right out the window if you are addicted to drugs and refuse to get off of them.

Four: Drugs can ruin lives. You may have had dreams of writing, acting, singing.  You may have been a talented artist.  You could be an attorney or someone who was a proven leader in your field.  Still, drugs are selfish and will take over control of every aspect of your life.  It has no remorse, it has no conscience.  It just thinks of its own needs and desires.  The person you were, with dreams and goals, is of no consequence to the drug that takes over your mind and body.  Your life exists only to feed the drug addiction.

Five: Drugs can make a very important person disappear: you. Yes, you are worthy of overcoming a drug addiction.  Yes, you do deserve a good life, a second chance.  If you think otherwise, it is only further proof that the drug addiction has taken control.

There are even more reasons for getting off of drugs but really the most important ones are listed here and boil down to you, your family and your lives.  You deserve a second chance, your family deserves peace of mind and all of you deserve a future full of living life instead of being controlled by an enemy that does not care about whether you live or die, but only when and where its next fix will come from.