A Drug substance is an active ingredient intended to furnish pharmacologic activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or to affect the structure or any function of the body; it does not include intermediates used in the synthesis of such an ingredient.
Substances are something we are either addicted to which make us feel better or something that we do to fit in or do for "fun". For months on end after having my heart broken you would constantly drank and tried to smoke because I thought that being plastered or high would solve all of my issues for months. For a while I did, and i'm sure some of you think that going out and getting drunk will solve all of your problems but I am here to infer differently from personal experience.
If you have ever seen a piece of paper and crinkled it it cannot return to its original straightness, meaning once you do something once you cannot take it back, you cannot take back the time, the money, the effort, and the harm. I'm not saying that you cannot have fun and go out with your friends and party but I am saying not to use items to heal yourself because you will rely on those items for weeks or maybe even the rest of your life. You may think its not that serious but when you are getting drunk or high to feel better it is serious. A lot of things you here such as "oh I wanna get hammered tonight I had a bad week" is a sign that you aren't using substances correctly. Most of the time alcohol will make you feel ten times worse then you already did.
Although I was sad, substances made me feel worse, almost every time,especially if I was already sad. Using substances to solve problems could be considered addiction but I was not addicted. I pulled myself out of this awful funk, instead of vodka I drank water, instead of walking I ran, instead of thinking I distracted myself with constant working and started to eat healthy and take care of myself. The main problem with trying to do all of this is having a negative thinking process, which I am very guilty for having. While taking care of myself I found myself missing memories with someone who had once mentally suffocated me, so I went out and distracted myself and every time I used a substance I felt worse, I would feel worse than I had before. When I cut out all substances for months my grades improved, my self confidence improved, my happiness improved. This isn't a message of telling you what to do but maybe to find other outlets rather than substances.
