The Impacts Of Far-Reaching Addiction

The effect of addiction have consumed billions of individuals all over the world, not only consume but also killed. Individuals have relied on drugs to fill the void in their life that is missing. The addict is not only hurting themselves from the drug use but their families, friends, and their community. In this paper, it will give a description of a 21-year-old male named Anthony. Anthony started using marijuana at the age of 20, trying to hide the pain from the death of his sister. Eventually, marijuana was not enough to get Anthony the extra high he wanted which Anthony made the choice to try another drug and eventually it

Drug addiction ruins lives. It alters a person's personality and attitude causing marriages to fall apart and families to experience great strain. It amounts to millions of dollars in lost time and productivity. And it also causes deaths and accidents.

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.

In the 1980’s, Nancy Reagan started the “Just Say No” campaign. This was an attempt to help people avoid the pitfalls of drugs and addiction. Now, imagine if the government started a campaign about drugs that was “Just Say Yes”. Opponents of drug addiction claim that drugs alter brain structures, change thought processes, and causes family issues. However, Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, portrays a more irrational perspective of drugs where addiction is necessary for controlling the population.

In 1981, the iconic video game character, Mario, flashed on television screens made possible by the Nintendo Entertainment System, marking the beginning of video games taking over the globe. The retro, pixel interfaces of video games quickly strides to advance its graphics, gameplay and quality, becoming an ambitious industry as the years continue on. In the early 1900s, this was an unreal thought by society from the technology at the time, including a man named Aldous Huxley. The author of the novel Brave New World, published in 1932, Huxley creates a dystopian science fiction novel in which a futuristic society must be stabilized, kept together by conditioning the individual. The novel bares a resemblance to advancing technology in the modern day world, particularly the video game industry.

Drugs are chemicals they work in the brain by tapping into the brain's communication system and interfering with the way nerve cells normally send, receive, and process information. Some drugs, such as marijuana and heroin, can activate neurons because their chemical structure mimics that of a natural neurotransmitter. This fools receptors and allows the drugs to lock onto and activate the nerve cells. Although these drugs mimic brain chemicals, they don't activate nerve cells in the same way as a natural neurotransmitter, and they lead to abnormal messages being transmitted through the network.

Different drugs carry varying risks. The potential for serious harm from marijuana is less than for cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine. Marijuana, for example, appears incapable of causing a lethal overdose, but cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine have all been known to kill if taken in excess or under the wrong circumstances (e.g, with other substances that may enhance their effect or with people who

Drug addiction is a brain disease because drugs change the brain’s structure and how they work. Over a period of time drugs start to affect the brain by challenging an addicted person’s self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs. “Most drugs affect the brain's reward circuit by flooding it with the chemical messenger dopamine. This overstimulation of the reward circuit causes the intensely pleasurable "high" that leads people to take a drug again and again. Over time, the brain adjusts to the excess dopamine, which reduces the high that the person feels compared to the high they felt when first taking the drug—an effect known as tolerance. They might take more of the drug, trying to achieve the same dopamine high.”, States National Institute on Drug Abuse. After long term use of drugs it affects functions such as learning, judgment, decision-making, stress, memory, and behavior. Even though an addict knows this, they still use

People don’t understand the seriousness of being under the influence of drugs of any kind or bad people. Takes a lot of work to realize that you have many bad choices in till you get to the very bottoms. For example, in the article America in Drugs: A Visual Guide Christen Jen said: “Drugs are the leading cause of accidental deaths in this country”. I think what she is trying to say is that none tries to kill themselves on purpose overdosing themselves with drug, what happens is that people abuse the drugs then and they become addicted without even realizing it. In most cases sometimes is too late to ask for help. What is the definition of a drug: Dictionary.com? Dictionary, (2016). Web. Oct 2016 “A chemical substance used in the treatment,

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.

The year 2015 alone saw a lot of death from overdose with a staggering 57,000 deaths. Prescription medicine such as OxyContin is very addictive synthetic opioid that can if taken in large amounts by itself or with alcohol and cause respiratory failure and will kill you. Heroin has claimed more lives then the use of guns although prescription pain relievers have taken more lives than both combined. Other substances have also claimed the lives of many such as codeine and methadone.

The pharmacological effects of substance abuse are how they work within our brain chemicals to change our feeling. Drugs react with our neurotransmitters. They allow neurons to communicate with each other which communicates with our body on what to experience and what to do. “All this action occurs in the section of our brain called our “primitive brain”. This is also referred to as the survival section of our brain. There are four major neurons that drugs target in our brain. These four neurons are called dopamine, serotonin, GABA, and endorphins” (Turpin, 2016). Dopamine for example is what is released in the brain when stimulants are taken it stimulates our reward center. Opiates release endorphins and GABA along with dopamine and serotonin

Drug abuse can start from something as little as taking a friend's pain killer. Although some use their own prescribed medication, it doesn't take much to get addicted. Drug abuse is a problem that is spread throughout the world. An abundance of people believe that doctors are the ones to blame. Having a drug addiction can result in your body and brain to change, or death. There are endless stories of drug abuse, as well as overdosing. These drugs are so much more dangerous than people understand, and can become deadly with large consumptions or injections. This issue occurs with more than just adults, but is more common with young people.

More and more people are sucked into the horrible addiction. An addiction is an actual disease that occurs in the brain. Many times these drugs affect the brain and in result, cause the addiction to occur. More and more there are people coming into the hospital from a heroin overdose, are released from the hospital, go back out, and inject the drug. The drug is so powerful that these individuals do not see what is happening to them as they slowly kill themselves.

One of the more common addictions that were mentioned is substance or drug addiction. In the medical dictionary substance abuse means, “Excessive use of a potentially addictive substance, especially one that may modify body functions, such as drugs.” The effects of substance abuse can show a discrepancy between physical and psychological effects. Essentially every drug has dissimilar physical effects on the body; they all have an effect on the brain initially in a similar manner. The physical effects of substance abuse includes; respiratory issues, cardiac issues, and even gastrointestinal issues. With these issues, they can get severe enough to lead up to further severe issues such as lung cancer, heart attacks, and kidney or liver damage, which can ultimately lead to death. The psychological effects of this addiction can be just as harmful. The psychological effects included; hypothermia, paranoia, anxiety, violent behavior, hallucinations, depression, loss of interest, loss sense of reality, confusion, flashbacks, sense of distance, and catatonic syndrome (which affects the body’s central