28/11/2023
Drug addiction is a major problem in the world today. It is a problem that affects many people, and it can affect anyone. Drug addiction can cause many problems for the addict, their family, and society as a whole.
Drugs are substances that have been used for various medical or recreational purposes since ancient times. Drugs are typically used to change how someone feels or behaves in order to achieve some desired effect. There are two main types of drugs: legal drugs and illegal drugs. Illegal drugs are substances that have been prohibited by law from being used in any form whatsoever because they pose serious risks to society and its members.
The most common types of illegal drug use include: ma*****na, co***ne, he**in, M**A (ecstasy), m**hamphetamine (crystal m**h), L*D (acid), pe**te, psilocybin mushrooms (magic mushrooms), prescription painkillers such as Vicodin or Oxycontin, bath salts like Ivory Wave or Vanilla Sky and a lot more.
On the other hand, legal drugs are those which are used to reduce pain any either, headache, muscle pain, stomachache, weakness problem and much more. These are legally prescribed that, helps to cure patients, threw doctors and those who are professional in medical or medicine field. These legal drugs are prescribed by, doctors under a required timeline and quantity to heal patient.
Well, we just figured about what are drugs? Now before, stepping in towards some problems and solutions that prevents, drug addiction. First we’ll discover what are some causes of drug addiction.
In general there are 3 primary causes of drug addiction such as: emotional, psychological and physical. So, down below, we’re going to see some clauses that falls, into these main categories.
1 Social peer pressure
This is the well known and major cause for drug addiction, it mainly affects teenagers and young adults. Some people may use drugs, because of the influence of their peers, with someone who share in common and with someone who they’re friends with. For them, it begins to start a use of drugs to be in common, even though they know the effect of drug addiction but, still peer pressure forces them to consume drugs.
Additionally, younger people experience social pressure to take drugs from social media, celebrities, influencers and television. Because young adults are connected with social media and they follow different trends such as: use of drugs, to become fancy or look stylish. So, they try to participate these trends under the social pressure.
2 Curiosity/experiment
This is also a cause of drug addiction, when some people witnessed different type of drugs and drug users. With that, they get positive feedback from their friends through which they experienced so, this intrigues them to build interest and start to try drugs. This is not a result of having peer pressure or trying to fit in but, rather, a general curiosity of trying som**hing new.
3 Financial depression
Financial stress is a major cause of drug addiction, some people are intolerable because of their financial crisis. Financial problem affect people to feel trapped, stressed or depressed, this triggers them emotionally and psychologically to endorse drugs. For them, it helps to release stress, avoid problems and forget their financial problems.
An article on teen drug addiction, written by Joshua Azevedo and published in Together AZ, an addiction and recovery newspaper in Scottsdale, Arizona.
