The Effects of Alcoholism and the Effects of
Drug Addiction on your Health, Mind and Life

The effects of alcoholism and the effects of drug addiction are severe. If nothing is done to treat them, death will be the inevitable result. Yes, addiction is that serious. Sometimes it will happen slowly, others extremely quickly. The bottom line is that alcoholism and drug addiction destroys lives.

If you haven’t yet had personal experience of the devastating effects of alcoholism and drug addiction, be sure to read the facts and statistics pages.

If you want to know what some of the side effects of alcoholism and physical effects of alcoholism are, make sure you also read the physical symptoms page.

But to give you an idea anyway, here are some of the side effects and physical effects of addiction as well:

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• Delirium
• Cirrhosis of the liver
• Heart Disease
• High Blood Pressure
• Stroke
• Depression
• Memory Loss
• Hallucination
• Suicidal Feelings
• Sexual Performance Problems
• Schizophrenia

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Now I can personally attest to many of those affects of alcoholism and affects of drug addiction. I suffered from depression, suicidal feelings, hallucinations, paranoia, performance problems and my memory is now shot. One of my very close school friends now suffers from schizophrenia.

I used to be able to read and speak extremely fluently, whereas now I have developed a slight stammer when I feel anxious or under pressure, and often struggle to get words out. Mentally, I also struggle to comprehend things in the way that I used to and naturally my self-confidence also suffered.

Those are the very personal health effects of addiction. But their effects are far more wide reaching than on your body and mind.

Besides the health effects, addiction destroys relationships with everyone from partners to spouses to children, to family and friends.

Your work is affected, with the possibility of losing your job a very real reality and any kind of spiritual connection you may have had is destroyed.

But I think the biggest effect is that you totally lose your sense of self and spend most of your time in a drug or alcohol induced reality that ultimately inflicts you with nothing but pain. And once you start down that negative spiral into an ever deepening black hole, it becomes so difficult to pull yourself out. But it is possible; I’ve done it and seen countless others do it. So whatever space you’re in right now, know that it can be done.

So hopefully these effects of drug addiction and alcoholism will help you understand the very real dangers. Please spend plenty of time in the treatment and recovery sections of this site to learn what to do if you or a loved one suffers from these devastating illnesses.

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