The Many Myths of Drugs

There is a misconception that many people have adopted that drugs aid your creativity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Another expansion of that myth is that a person in the arts has to be brooding to be successful. Again, a lie. In fact, drugs have destroyed many people’s careers, whether in the arts, business or any other field.

When a person initially takes a drug he’ll feel very fired up and enthusiastic. He will appear happy and free and easy. However, it is a synthetic or artificial high and it doesn't last. Worse still, after that artificial high wears off the person’s emotional tone goes much, much lower, often down to a feeling of apathy.

As an example, let’s say a guy takes cocaine simply because he is feeling bored. Shortly after taking the drug he will no longer be bored, but conversely, will start to feel a little hyper and excitable. That sensation may last for a while, a few hours or so, and then will start to wear off. Before too long he is getting ill-tempered and then he has outbursts of anger. That hyper, enthusiastic feeling is a thing of the past and replaced with a very undesirable feeling and in the end he will feel apathetic. The price he had to pay for that hyper, enthusiastic feeling was far too much compared to the amount of suffering he does afterward.

Eventually, the guy will settle back to the point around boredom again. Then he’ll want to get the good feeling again and he will take the drug and the whole sequence starts over. Sooner or later he won’t be returning even as high as the boredom, he’ll feel worse than that. Then the highs are not even as good as they were in the initial stages. He won’t even be able to escape for a few hours like he used to.

Next he begins to take more of the drug or he’ll try to find a stronger drug to generate as good of a high as he used to be able to get. At this point our guy has become a drug addict and in most cases his best chance is to get into a good drug rehhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifab facility that can help him straighhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giften out his life.

If the drug rehab is done thoroughly and properly then he will not only get off the drug but they will help him change conditions in his life so that he won’t be liable to just fall back into the same trap he was in before. He will not only have a drug free life, but a completely new life!