During training under the program “Moral and value aspects of forming healthy lifestyle skills in youth”, various “risk zones” are analyzed and studied that can destroy the dreams and lives of teenagers. We have already talked about drugs and drug addiction, about smoking. And today's topic is Alcohol - the destroyer of life.
According to statistics, 30% of all deaths in Ukraine occur precisely because of alcohol. Also: 85% of all crimes, 90% of rapes, 50% of divorces, all this happens because of alcohol consumption. Alcohol is also the reason that every 6th child is born with defects, every 3rd girl becomes infertile.
As always, the training was supported by documentaries on how alcohol destroys our body. Alcohol is also a drug, as it affects our “pleasure center” in the brain. When the “pleasure center” is stimulated, the hormone of happiness dopamine is released. Dopamine affects memory and cognitive processes, stimulating us to perform actions that are pleasant for ourselves and others. Let's put it this way: - when young children do something themselves, explore - they are happy from such a habit. And this stimulates them to discover something new because it will make them happy and bring joy. Adults are also happy because of their habits in life, in business, in work.... But sometimes people use stimulating substances (alcohol, drugs...), because you are “happy” without any effort. If there were not one but.... At first, under such a stimulus there will be a “WOW!!!” effect. But then the body “gets lost” from its usual mode of functioning and what was “WOW!!!” turns into a disease where alcohol consumption is no longer for pleasure but for “treatment” so that the body can function at least somehow. There are many known cases where ALCOHOL could have ruined the lives of many, now famous people, but they left the minefield they entered in time and risked being blown up by an ALCOHOL mine.
The next “risk zone” we discussed was HIV/AIDS. HIV is transmitted or spread through direct contact of mucous membranes or body fluids, such as blood, semen or breast milk. HIV infects and destroys our immune system. By killing T-helper cells and using their “technology” to create its own copies. Thus, in a short period of time (5-8 years), our immune system is asymptomatically destroyed and HIV turns into AIDS. That is, the human body is left without any protection against bacteria and viruses from the environment. This leads to various diseases that are fatal for a person with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
To protect yourself from HIV/AIDS, you need to avoid the “minefield” of drug addiction and alcoholism. You need to protect yourself for the one and only life partner you want to live a happy life with.
If we ignore the “warning signs” and consequences, and wander through the minefields of risk zones with the thought “it doesn’t concern me,” then sooner or later we will definitely “explode” in that field. And the consequences of the explosion will destroy our dreams, goals, and lives. And the “fragments” from our actions can also destroy the lives of those around us, those we love and value in our lives.
And at the very end, the beer bottle, which was used as a demonstration during training, which can steal life and in which the youth, with a confident decision, did not want to drown their dreams, was reinforced by the demonstrative destruction of the beer in the toilet. Video attached (wink)