Chapter 8
Drug Use and Prevention: From Cradle to Grave

Voices of Addiction

Violence & Drug Use
This interview can be read to get a sense of what a person goes through that causes them dependency problems with psychoactive drugs and compulsive behaviors. The interview also helps one grasp the forces that propel people into recovery and keep them there.

There is an intimate connection between drug use and violence, especially alcohol. The violence can come from alcohol's lowering of inhibitions, from methamphetamine's stimulation of aggressiveness, or from steroid's spur to anger (roid rage). In most cases there is an existing susceptibility for aggression.

This is a 45-year-old recovering male alcoholic with violence and drug problems for part of his life. He went into treatment and became a drug/alcohol/violence counselor.

PDF File: Violence & Drug Use.pdf