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Sexual Health eBook Volume2
Chapter 10

The Effects of Drugs and Alcohol Use and Abuse on Sexual Function, Lawrence A. Siegel and Richard M. Siegel

The first and most obvious term that requires a clearer understanding for the purpose of this chapter is the term drug. Certainly, the word can have many different connotations, especially in such terms as drug addict, drug problem, drug company, War on Drugs, or drug laws. There seems to be an ever-present confusion of mixed messages in the world today, from “drugs are bad” and “say no to drugs” to “ask your doctor if this drug is right for you!”

A commercial break during any television show at any given time might very well include ads from a pharmaceutical company for a new prescription drug, some “high-powered” weight loss product, a pill promising penis enlargement, and a public service announcement from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America–all in the same two-minute block.

We clearly do not live in a drug-free America, and it would behoove us all to recognize that we indeed have a relationship with drugs and that we are obliged to reevaluate that relationship in the context of healthy living.

We just as clearly do have a whole host of drug problems in this country, and they do not all involve illicit drugs—in fact, many are far more pervasive and threatening than the kinds of problems most of us associate with illegal drug activity.

Perhaps the biggest of all of our drug problems is the combination of these two ideas: (1) that we seem to have given up our own power to drugs, the power to heal and achieve wellness or change the way we feel, and (2) that we seem to be growing increasingly more impatient and lazy, as a society, so that taking a pill has become the quickest and easiest way to achieve whatever changes we are seeking. Whether we want to change how we feel physically, mentally, socially, sexually, or spiritually, there is always the perfectly suited—and heavily marketed—drug.

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