If you find that your use of mood-altering substances, whether legal or illegal, is having a negative impact on your happiness, your ability to work and your relationships with friends and family, you may have a substance-abuse problem. >
A person's drug or alcohol abuse usually has a strong adverse effect on his family, friends and colleagues. This is what you can do if someone close to you is abusing substances. >
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