Drug Abuse In Brave New World

Every year thousands of people die from an overdose, leaving behind friends and family. Once someone starts using drugs they get addicted and they can't stop. They will go out of their way to get drugs and will do anything to use. People go against their family and friends and end up caring about themselves and nothing else. Being addicted to drugs is like having a disease that is very hard to get rid of.

Throughout the novel Brave New World written in 1931, the author Aldous Huxley has many characters on display that use Soma to escape their personal problems and to avoid feelings. These actions taken by the characters once showed in the dystopian novel are now appearing in our present day world. Individuals are experimenting and using marijuana without being aware of the harmful effects like improper brain developing, physical defects, depression, and personal disorders it has been known to produce. Now that marijuana is becoming more accessible in the United States due to the increasing amount of states legalizing the dangerous drug for medical and recreational use, American citizens will be at an even higher risk for hazardous outcomes, which is previewed in the novel when many of the characters make poor decisions. Aldous Huxley presents a universal drug addiction in Brave New World that is government funded because of its seemingly effects on the community, relationships, and personal well-being.

Drug addiction is something that everyone is vulnerable to, and that unfortunately is something that many people are going through in today’s society. Everyone is exposed to drug addiction, no matter what, it’s just up to the person to determine if they have a strong enough will power to not take the drugs. However, drugs are available to anyone who is willing to buy them, and many people are willing to spend everything they have in order to buy drugs that might give them temporary relief of a situation that they are currently struggling in; drugs are many people’s escape from the reality they are forced to be in. People have different reasons as to why they start using and abusing drugs; some may choose to do it simply because they like the feeling the drugs causes or occasionally because of the environment or situation the person was or is in, but I mostly think it’s because the person isn’t strong enough to stop taking the drugs or to say no to them.

“People who do drugs are evil”, “drugs are the cause of crimes”, and “all drugs harm you”. These are all said about drugs in our society, but what most people don’t know is that 81% of Americans use drugs on a daily bases for their remedies of minor ailments (consumer health care productions association).Drugs like prescription pain killers, aspirin, Tylenol, and other OTC (over-the-counter) drugs you can find almost anywhere are used every day in our society. If people see someone pull out a bottle or ibuprofen and take 4 or 5 nobody even thinks twice about it. So is our society taking advantage of the drugs available to them? And if nobody does anything about the amount of drugs Americans are using, will the society norm turn into that of the Brave New World?

When people start taking drugs, they don't plan to get addicted. They like how the drug makes them feel. They believe they can control how much and how often they take the drug. However, drugs change the brain. Those who use drugs start to need the drug just to feel normal. That is addiction, and it can quickly take over a person's life.

What is substance use and abuse and why is it that some people seem to be drawn to drugs and alcohol while others can go through life without any substance problems at all? We can define drug addiction as a repetitive use of a given substance even though it may be harmful to the person using the substance physically, psychologically, socially, and financially. Repetitive uses of drugs and alcohol can cause chemical changes in the body, especially the brain causing a physical need to have these substances in the body in order to function properly. Many substances can cause a physical dependence making the individual use the substance multiple times a day just to get through the day. Unfortunately, a lot of these drugs and alcohol can have very

The misuse of drugs can lead to negative consequences in ones life. There are many in

Human impulse, an urge to take action within a given scenario that can end up with a positive as well as negative outcome. Aldous Huxley uses these theme in order to reflect on every decisions the characters make within the novel Brave new World . Sex and Drugs are some of the most relevant factors within the world state, both of these factors rely on human impulses to create the community within the world state. Outlawing institutions such as marriage as well as encouraging what was once to be conceived as negative and otherwise inherent behaviours set the mood for the world sate.

Drugs are abused every day for reason most of the reasons are for pleasure or increased physical ability.

My perspective on society’s current drug use problems stems essentially from all the lives I have personally seen destroyed or disrupted by addiction. Currently our nation is experiencing a heroin abuse epidemic. NSDUH (2014) established that nearly a half a million people in America were heroin users during 2014, and the epidemic is rampantly out of control (p. 11). In an attempt to analyze why and how it has exasperated, I found that I feel the nature of the problem is in direct correlation to the extreme expectations society places upon not only our youth, but on single parents, reintegrating drug offenders, adjusting immigrants,

Personality traits are consistent cognitive and behavioural patterns that are often thought to be unchanging and causal. While this has been the common understanding of personality traits, recent research has begun to show that these traits are actually influenced more by the environment and are constantly changing and shifting. (Magidson, Roberts, Collado-Rodriguez, & Lejuez, 2014; Staiger, Kambouropoulos, & Dawe, 2007) Further research has also indicated that these traits have the potential to be altered or modified by different interventions. (Magidson, et al., 2014) Although the field of research regarding personality is quite diverse unfortunately the number of studies examining how it relates to substance abuse is quite limited. (Staiger, et al., 2007)

We should know that we as our nation is facing this epidemic. Drug abuse is huge problem in many countries. Billions of dollars are spent trying to preventing drug use, treating addicts, and fighting drug-related crime. Jesse Heffernan and his drug abuse. He is a Certified Recovery Coach now. Now he is a creative, imaginative, forward-thinking, advocate. “He pretty much used whatever he could get his hands on, and he admitted that “Crack was the bottoming out substance in the end.” Although drugs threaten many societies, their effects can also be combated successfully.

Addiction to drugs is a major contemporary public health issue. Drug addiction is characterized by a compulsive behavior to obtain and consume an increasing amount of drugs, despite negative consequences to the individual’s health, social, and personal life. Drug addiction is considered a brain disease, because the drug of abuse often causes changes in the structure of the brain. Here we will discuss what some common addictive drugs are, and what makes them so addictive. Drug addiction isn’t the same for everyone, because the way the drug affects the brain is different for everyone. Research has discovered abnormalities in frontal-striatal brain systems implicated in self-control in both stimulant-dependent individuals and their biological

Abuse of narcotics has become one of the unfavorable epidemics. Drugs come in a different variety but at the end all cause the same harm. The number of Drug abusers rises on the daily. Drugs ruin life’s but with further knowledge drug abuse can be terminated.

Drug abuse also known as substance abuse as defined in Wikipedia is a patterned use of drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or to others. While drug addiction is condition where an individual feels a strong need to take a drug. Both cases of drug abuse and addiction have always never been of advantage to the society but a dysfunctional activity that needs to be curbed in other to have a safe society. Cases of domestic violence, rape, kidnap, theft has always been traced to the perpetrators using some sorts of drugs abusively or be an addict.