Journal learning
Journal learning 1
It was my first time to join the drug program which was organized by the church. I came
across a man who was narrating his to the people how he used to drink alcoholic. The man was
30 years old according to his identity card but by the look was 50 years. The man was actually
shaking due to the addition of the alcoholic and his cloth signifies the bad life of alcoholic. The
story initially touched many people in the program and some even cried on the spot. The present
of the psychologist was an advantage to the man because he was given the medicine to control
the shaking of the body. Later the man gained strength and was in a stable condition. From his
story of addition to alcoholic and the teaching from the psychologist, I leaned that drug abuse is
very dangerous to our bodies. However, counseling on drug addiction is very important to the
people affected by the drug in our community. Therefore it important to guide the drug addicted
people to be taken through the counseling process in order to regain their sense back.
During the progress of the program, the man was actually active through participating in the
communication during the situation areas. Unfortunately, the man confessed to having been
involved in the robbery in the areas which made people even shocked. The psychologist
controlled the people and exploited that drug abuse initially leads crime. However, the man was
ready to change with the effort of the psychologist and rehabilitation center been established in
the area. I noted that to be the psychologist is passion because it hard to handle drug addicted and
giving pieces of advice to them until one accepts to stop the drug abuse like an alcoholic. The
psychologist actually assists us in describing for us the cause of drug abuse and measures taken
to control drug abuse. In addition, the psychologist also said that most of the people addicted
with alcoholic have the problem with the lungs and are at high risk of contracting diseases.
Consequently, alcoholic addition can be managed at any level to avoid death in future; therefore