Alcohol

The Middle Stage of Alcohol Abuse  is when you:

• Find it difficult to get through the day without a drink
• Have trouble getting the same "good feelings," regardless of how much you drink
• Deny drinking, drink in secret, and hide alcohol
• Drink in the morning or alone
• Start to hang around people with whom you would not usually hang around
• Get careless about personal welfare, such as drinking and driving, walking alone at night, etc.
• Lose the ambition or drive you had before drinking
• Lose interest in family, friends, school, work, and activities that were once of interest to you