If consuming any type of drug is already harmful in itself, if we add the consumption of another at the same time, it can be even worse. Alcohol and joints are a very dangerous mix that unfortunately is common. Both alcoholic beverages and cannabis are two of the most widely consumed drugs and, therefore, it is not uncommon for people to drink and smoke at the same time.
At CCAdicciones we recommend not consuming any type of drug and we want to warn about the risks that mixing them can entail, something that can be even worse.
What Can Happen When Mixing Alcohol and Joints?
Alcohol and joints are a dangerous mix. It is evident that two different drugs that already in themselves and consumed alone can pose a risk to people’s health, if we combine them nothing good comes out. In fact, when we mix cannabis with alcoholic beverages we may encounter more problems and the effects of the high may increase to the point of experiencing a bad trip. When mixing drugs, instead of feeling the effects of both in the body, unexpected reactions can occur because we do not know how our body will react.
Something that is usually common is that it makes the person who mixes feel unwell, especially if we are talking about having drunk large amounts of alcohol or having smoked a lot. Therefore, it is not at all advisable to consume these drugs separately, much less at the same time, since they can be harmful to our body both in the short and long term.
These may be some of the consequences of having a bad trip and your body responding poorly to the consumption of both drugs:
- Physical discomfort
- Dizziness
- Vomiting
- Confusion
- Reduction of cognitive abilities
- Paranoia
In addition to all this, in the long term we could encounter other more serious problems caused by each of these drugs, as well as greater possibilities of suffering alcohol intoxication or an overdose.
Dangers of Alcohol
Alcoholic beverages are a legal drug with very normalized consumption in society. But alcohol is also one of the most devastating drugs, since it reaches many people and there are also many people who fall into its addiction. The dangers, in addition to dependence, are very high, since excessive consumption deteriorates the body. These are some of the risks of its consumption:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Aggressiveness
- Loss of control and danger of harm to third parties
- Mood changes (happiness, sadness…)
- Cirrhosis
- Heart problems
Dangers of Cannabis
For its part, cannabis also has many risks. People usually smoke it by rolling joints, but also with bongs, pipes or hookahs. Whatever the method of consumption, the effects are the same and the high appears anyway. Although it is sometimes associated with supposed benefits, or it is said to be a soft drug, underestimating its negative effects can be very dangerous. Consuming drugs never provides benefits and even less so if done frequently, since tolerance is created and more and more is needed to notice the effects.
As we said, consuming cannabis can have many negative consequences and these may be some of them:
- Cognitive difficulties
- Memory loss
- Emotional instability and psychological problems
- Anxiety
- Fatigue and loss of motivation
- Aggressiveness and loss of control
Multiple Addiction
Logically, if a person consumes the same drug frequently, they may end up developing an addiction. The danger of cannabis and alcohol is not only that they make you feel unwell when you mix them, but in the long run we may also have more possibilities of developing a multiple addiction. That means having two addictions at the same time. These two drugs are already two of those that generate the greatest addiction, therefore, the possibility of this multiple addiction appearing is real among consumers of both drugs.
Consuming cannabis and alcohol frequently can mean consuming larger amounts of drugs, doing so at many different times or doing so because one cannot be without getting high. Beyond the reasons, a multiple addiction will be a more complex case due to the greater difficulty of detoxification from two different substances. In addition, the body may end up more damaged due to the abundant consumption of different drugs.
In this CCAdicciones article we discuss more extensively the problems generated by multiple addiction: https://ccadicciones.es/adiccion-multiple-alcohol-y-cannabis/
Detoxification Treatments
At CCAdicciones we can treat you if you suffer from the disease of addiction. We perform treatments for alcohol and cannabis detoxification. Through individual therapies we will be able to better understand the person, understand them and help them in the best possible way, addressing their needs. With group therapy, we can obtain benefits such as feeling understood, seeing oneself reflected in the experiences of others to stop feeling guilty, feeling that one is part of a group, etc. For their part, sports therapies serve to exercise, recover physically and also take advantage of all the benefits of sports activity that influence mood.
The objective of all these therapies is to create change and help the patient as much as possible for their recovery. Each of them serves to obtain specific benefits and we carry them out with the objective of improving and providing mechanisms to people that serve as learning during their recovery process. We are specialists in the treatment of drug detoxification, but also of behavioral addictions. Our professionals are experts in the field to be able to understand and care for the patient in the best way.
You Can Overcome Addiction
At CCAdicciones we do not care what addiction you have nor are we going to judge you, we simply want to help you as much as possible. You can overcome addiction and that is the message we try to send to each of our patients. And it can be achieved through our treatments and therapies, in which we give our maximum so that you can recover.
We want to remind you that consuming alcohol and joints is a dangerous mix and that addiction is a disease that can be overcome if a good detoxification process is carried out. Perhaps it will not be easy, but with your effort and conviction and the help and unconditional support of CCAdicciones professionals, the chances of recovery will be much greater.
