The Problem Of Drug Addiction

Katie is an everyday 35 year old woman; she has a wonderful husband and 2 small girls, a great job and looking up the ladder of success. Over the past few years, she has dedicated herself to having success at work and success with having a loving family. Anyone would meet Katie and her husband, Lewis, would think they have everything anyone could ever want. Even with her seemingly perfect life, Katie hides a secret. Katie has succumbed to a life of prescription drug addiction.

According to NIH, the death rate caused by usage of heroin has been increased by triple of its number in the past 10 years. The purpose is to treat people; especially teenagers understanding its negative consequences it has on them before they get addicted to it. When the addiction starts addicts have no idea that they would be so in to it that there is no possible way to stop. Addiction is a chronic, weakened disease characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and use despite consequences and by long lasting changes in the brain (“United”). There are a lot of different reasons why people become a drug addict but their main reasoning is to be stress free, and stay happy. Most people consider who are drug addict has a bad character, lack of moral principles, and irreligious character of someone. However, being a drug addict comes from a wrong choice of a person, against all the damages it causes to them. Drug addiction doesn’t only impact health, but it has a big effect on our economy, family, lifestyle and career. As the drug fact institute explained it “Addiction is form of a disease and as such it can be pause serious of negative consequences your emotional wellbeing, physical health and emotional life” (“The truth”). As of right now, Heroin is one of the most highly addictive and dangerous drug of all. It 's also been known that people get addicted to heroin after just using it couple of times.

Drug addiction is something many of us don’t encounter every day. Addiction has, plagued every society across the world, and continues to do so today. It has led to the decimation of towns, cities, and countries; yet we know little about what factors influence addiction. In the past it used to be viewed as a very simple almost binary process, that process being, if someone uses drugs they will become addicted. This idea was challenged and many began to believe that there were much deeper factors at play beyond the pharmacological properties of substances. It pushed us to question what aspects of society, culture, or biology leads people to substance abuse. It wanted to further analyze what factors turn some people from occasional recreational

Most researchers believe that addictions are caused by a number of risk factors, working together to create the addiction that consume and destroy people lives. Most people become addicted with prescription drugs they are taking; however, there are cases where individuals have used recreational and prescription drugs without becoming addicts. Once an individual starts using drugs, he/she becomes physically and emotionally dependent on them. Drug abuse can cause great amount of pain and suffering depending on each individual and the extent of his or her addiction. The extent of a person 's vulnerability to their addiction depends on their social environment, mental stability, physical health, and their genes. According to Kellogg "Our drug problem is a major problem, which in all likelihood, stems from poverty, loneliness, shame, dishonesty, rage, family violence, power and greed. It is a spiritual bankruptcy that eats away at a culture and destroys the core of meaningfulness in people 's lives" (Kellogg, 1990, p. xvii).

In order to understand how to treat addiction, it is important to first understand why addiction occurs. Often, there is a misconception on what steps need to be taken to deal with addiction, and what factors increase the propensity of addiction in the first place. The different models of addiction aim to clarify and justify reasons why addiction occurs both physiologically and psychologically, as well as provide plausible solutions to stop addiction. Although the models all contain differing view on why addiction occurs, and tenets and tactics on how to effectively deal with addiction, it is important to understand that any type of addiction can be harmful and dangerous.

Often, people who are suffering from mental disorders, schizophrenia, depression, or anxiety tend to abuse drugs or alcohol. Clients like these need a different treatment plan depending on their condition and the substance they have abused.

Not everyone who experiments with drugs becomes an addict. There’s no single factor that can predict whether someone will become addicted, though there are general social, biological, and environmental factors that do increase the risk. Genes, in combination with environmental factors, account for about half of a person’s addiction vulnerability. Being male, African American, or having a mental illness can also increase a person’s risk of progressing to addiction. Family, friends, and socioeconomic status have a significant impact on a person’s likelihood of developing an addiction. Physical and sexual abuse, peer pressure, stress, and parental guidance can greatly affect the occurrence of substance abuse. Although a person can become an addict

Cunning, baffling and powerful are three words that best describe the disease of addiction. From my own experience with a close friend who has suffered through addiction, I believe it is a disease that shows no mercy to its victim, and that the only path to recovery is to separate the addict from the substance or activity causing the addiction. As stated in the writings of Alcoholics Anonymous, without some form of recovery its only end is jails, institutions and death. Sadly the addict in my life lost all sense that his disease caused harm to those around him. The disease reached far into his personal and social life and affected many people during both his active stage of addiction and the ongoing recovery period afterward.

Drug addiction is a very common problem within our world today. There are many factors that can lead up to drug addiction. Things like the environment that people live in, their peers, genetics could be a factor, and mental illness. One side is that drug addiction could be a disease or it could be that people believe that it 's a choice. With it being a choice means that people have to make the decision of what to do before they decide to take drugs or not. Arguing that this could be a disease is a side too. The side of it being a disease means that it could result in brain problems and it could be caused from having mental illnesses that may run in the family. This is about how drug addiction is a disease and not a choice. There is more

A crisis that many communities in Georgia are experiencing is addiction. A large substance that is currently being abuse is methamphetamine. Methamphetamine can be smoked, snorted, injected, taken orally and dissolved in liquids. The most common use is smoking and injecting the drug because of the immediate reaction it has on the body. It is highly addictive and has repeated patterns of binges and crashes with the individual constantly trying to reproduce their euphoric high.

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

Some people truly do not understand how serious an addiction really can be; they even used the word lightly. They say thing like I’m addicted to shoes, or I’m addicted to eating chocolate. They can really like shoes or really like to eat chocolate but can they truly say that they are addicted to these things. The common definition for the word addition is to have a compulsive need to have something on a regular bases, that can means every day. Addiction is looked at as being a chronic disease of the brain. Just like any other disease addiction can take over your life. The most common addiction that hurts our society more then we know is drug or alcohol addictions. Not only is it taking over our community’s but it is also taking over our jails and prisons. There are over 6.8 million people in America that are suffering with a drug or alcohol addiction, and many of these people are suffering alone. Since they have these addictions many times they are arrest for using drugs or committing a crime so that they can get the drugs they need. There are over two million people serving time in our jails and prisons and over 500,000 are there because of a drug related crime. Drug and alcohol addiction has become an increasing problem over the years. We need to look more in to making sure that these individuals get the right help instead of just locking them up and throwing away the key. By doing this we could decrease their chances of them reusing and re-offending and returning to jail

Drug addiction is a worldwide epidemic. Drug abuse is the intake of a substance which is catastrophic to one’s health. Substances such as cocaine, heroin, Marijauna, prescribes medicatio, etc. A regular use of said substances can cause one to become addicted. Drug addiction is referred to as a chronic relapsing brain disease, it is referred to as a disease because substance abuse alters the structure of the brain. The analysis of different surveys and interviews shows that in developed countries such as the U.S., almost 9% of citizens regularly consume some drugs today (Goode 28-29). Although many factors can cause people to fall into drug addiction, many treatments exist to save them from unhealthy and or deadly consequences.

What can be considered by far the most terrible evil, exciting an increasing number of very young people who cannot in consequence of the normal full life? Evil, which first brings joy, then life turns into a nightmare? Evil that breaks the health and life of the person obeyed it, all his family and friends? Evil, which spreads very quickly, while hitting not only the body but also the soul of person? Some people want to earn money from this evil, others - are trying to escape from reality, and others - are looking for new sensations, trying to try everything in life. This is war, disaster and epidemic at the same time. Escape is very difficult, almost impossible. This evil-drug. I think that is a bad idea to legalize drugs as drug

Drug addiction is one of society 's biggest problems and it is rampant among teenagers and young adults and one of the most abused drugs is marijuana. Cannabis sativa or marijuana usually grows throughout tropical and temperate climates and then plant 's stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds are then dried. What attracts to most users is the mind altering effect these parts produce which is addictive to some extent. It is usually smoked as cigarette, or in a pipe. It is also smoked in blunts, in which cigars will be emptied of tobacco and refill with marijuana or sometimes it is combined with another drug. It can also be brewed as tea or mixed in food. Hashis is a more concentrated, resinous form which is sticky black liquid, hash oil. The