What exactly is drug abuse? If you take drugs are you really abusing the drugs or are they abusing you? Through my travels and my ups and downs with drug abuse I quickly came to grips with the brutal answer to that question. I mean I used and abused more drugs and alcohol than you could shake a stick at and at the end of it all I realized that I wasn’t abusing the drugs–they were abusing me. Not that it matters either way. I mean, the bottom line isn’t about semantics at all. It’s really about the fact that drugs are in your life and something has to be done about it immediately. Let’s face it, if you are a victim of drug abuse the only thing that is truly being abused is your life and more importantly, your ability to have a good one. Honestly the best definition for drug abuse is that it is a cancer that can either slowly or quickly destroy one’s life with no regard to whether or not they understand its true nature. That’s drug abuse. It is a sure fire way to ruin your life. And yes, when you abuse drugs they are abusing you.