drug addiction?

Question

why do people become drug addicts, considering all the negative things it does to the person, like losing all your friends, family, personal things not to mention the damage it does to your health,I lost my older sister to a drug overdose , its really a sore spot with me....

Answer 1

Addiction is an illness - people just do not make a choice to become addicted - this is how it was explained to me years ago when I entered drug treatment - if I found out that I had terminal cancer, would it be my choice to have it? Of course not! Addiction in any form is powerful and unfortunately, as with your sister (I am so sorry to hear of your loss) some addicts die from this disease. And because of this it is crucial that people get educated on the disease of addiction. Most communities offer AL-Anon as a means for educating the family.
Again, I am sorry to hear of your loss.

If you need to talk, I would be happy to listen. I too have lost friends and loved ones to this terrible disease.

Answer 2

Addiction just means getting into habit of something like drugs or anything else. The person is unable to control the aspects of the addiction without help because of the mental or physical conditions involved. No issue what a rehab center is available for all kind of addiction. Addiction exerts a hard and powerful influence on the brain that marked in three different ways: desire for the object of addiction, loss of control over its use, and continuing involvement with it although adverse consequences.

Answer 3

I'm clean and sober 8 months now, after using for 20 years....it's not that I woke up one day and said I think I'll become addicted to drugs and alcohol, I just became so dependent on the "euphoria" of the drugs. Your mind just tells you that I can just do this one time and be done with it forever, is a crock!!!! I was about to commit suicide in Nov. 05, because I never thought I'd be able to stop using on my own, then the intervention happened, and I basically didn't have a choice...now, I'm so happy, relieved, and ecstatic to be clean and sober one day at a time!!!!! It's a challenge everyday, but I realize I have a choice to make everyday God allows me to live, either I can use, or I can stay clean and live a wonderful "new" life...today I'd rather live wonderfully, and clean....

I don't think we as addicts really care about our surroundings or the people we hurt in the process, because we have no love for ourselves, we have given up on everything around us...please pray for ALL the active addicts, and for the people who are recovering everyday!!!!!!

Answer 4

for most people, you don't wake up on morning and say "hey i want to be a junkie", it is a long process that most people get suckered into. From my own personal experience, i don't have the best household in the world (if you know what i mean) and like most kids at a young stupid age i started out smoking weed, then over a course of several years i started cocaine, meth, ex, crack, pills (pain pills) anything to take my mind off my family. It was like an escape route. but thanks to my new fiance, i am clean and sober, i have to take pills for my mental depression, but other than that i am clean. but some people don't ever get the chance to find some one or some thing to substitute the addiction like me.

i am terrible sorry about your sister, my step-mother overdosed too and it still so very much hurts. I try to use my past experiences to educate teens and young adults, but i hope this helps you see the view from a "junkies" stand point

Answer 5

Having grown up with many of my friends smoking weed and doing x, I have a theory. I think there are two reasons. Some people do it to be cool, like the feeling, and get hooked. Other people that seemed to have mental issues like depression, anxiety, and other things used it as an escape from the pain of their daily lives. I guess many of them don't think about the negatives, or think it won't happen to them. I really think they don't think it will happen to them because they are smarter than the person that OD'd or they are more "careful," etc. One of my friends lost his best friend to alcohol poisoning. Not really a narcotic, but close. And he was bummed for a few days, and then 3 days later he was binge drinking again! It's crazy! I would guess that you have to start young. Raise the kid with lots of love, and talk to them openly about drugs. Maybe then they wouldn't get into it. Well that's my take. I feel for you for losing your sister... I can't imagine the pain.

Answer 6

No one sets out to become an addict but it happens because drugs often work by blocking receptors in the brain so that natural dopamines build up between the synapses. Once the drug has lost its effect the receptors remain turned off but few dopamines are there to replace what is no longer there so it is necessary to take more drugs in order to feel good again. It really is a vicious circle. It's not a moral issue either. It is a disease and often a fatal one. I am sorry you lost your sister but please allow yourself to forgive her for what she could never have imagined could happen when she first started using, and the first time a person uses can often hook them for life. Take care and good luck coming to terms with it.

Answer 7

People do not intentionally become drug addicts that is why it is called addiction, they can't help themselves. The feeling that they experience while on the drugs is a high that cannot be matched with anything and they continually try to obtain the high whether it means loosing personal possessions, friends, and family.

Answer 8

any kind of addiction is negative. all 'substance' gives a temporary vacation from reality. reality is made up of an observation of the self which is contradictory to the image that one creates of what oneself should be. the bigger the contradiction, the bigger the need to move away from this conflict of the 'real' person and the 'projected' person. the media is only aggravating this internal difference in people.

any 'substance' makes the addict forget this difference for a while and at times even makes the addict 'be' the 'projected' person as one looses all inhibitions depending upon the potency of the substance. after that there is no real 'need' to come back to reality and understand that it was just an illusion! also over time the substance weakens the addict's innate ability to comprehend things on his/her own. there has to be a great sense of purpose for someone to come out of it successfully.

Answer 9

Mostly because drugs and alcohol stimulate the pleasure centers in the brain and cause the person to feel better (temporarily). For some people, it becomes a habitual way of coping with stress....from the outside, such as job pressures and from internal stress, like not feeling adequate in some way.

Over time, the body actually needs the alcohol or drug to feel "normal".

Answer 10

nicely i think of alcohol and medicines are tied so some distance as addictions flow. i've got known particularly some peolple who've traded of their actual addictions for non secular ones. sure people who've executed that is annoying and it easily could be an habit, truly while the guy starts off pushing away acquaintances and family contributors with the aid of fact they could't be around "sinners" and all their temptations. even however, it truly is probable extra clever and much less life-destroying for a individual to have a non secular habit than to the two drugs or alcohol. they are all undesirable, yet while a individual won't be able to eliminate getting an addictive character (and who between us does not have one?) then picking faith is probable a sprint extra clever than drugs or alcohol.