SUBSTANCE ABUSE
To help numb the pain of PTSD and
other military experiences, some veterans have turned to alcohol or drugs. This
webpage will address these issues, and more material will be added as it becomes
available.
On
drinking. . .
POSITIVELY NEGATIVE
We drank for joy and became
miserable.
We drank for sociability and
became argumentative.
We drank for sophistication and
became obnoxious.
We drank for friendship and
became enemies.
We drank to help us sleep and
awakened exhausted.
We drank to gain strength and it
made us weaker.
We drank for exhilaration and
ended up depressed.
We drank for "medical
reasons" and acquired health problems.
We drank to help us calm down and
ended up with the shakes.
We drank to get more confidence
and became afraid.
We drank to make conversation
flow more easily,
and the words came out slurred and incoherent.
We drank to diminish our problems
and saw them multiply.
We drank to feel heavenly and
ended up feeling like hell.
Author Unknown
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