Whats it like to be or know a DRUG ADDICT??: for uni tutorial presentation?

Question

I need to outline the sociological and psycological defention of addiction, and include any other information relevant to drug addiction.

The presentaton needs to take10 minutes, and can include any film.tv snippets that could be relevant, also any advertisments, opinions, quotes or especially peoples personal experiences would be handy.

These can be experiences of either being a drug addict in the past or present, or even family, friends or people who have dealt/ worked with addicts.

Information on behaviours, habits , effects on their lives etc would be interesting and useful for my study.

thanks for all your help :)

Answer 1

Well I am very close to one...he's the father of 2 of my children and I LOVE him so much. He is a great, loving, caring soul (sober) and the best father in the world.

What it's like? It can be hell, it hurts because you see the potential they have and you see them just throw it away for nothing. YOu watch someone you love so much that could do so much just live a lonely unfulfilling life. I often wonder what they are thinking at the time they are deep into thier addiction. Do they just go day to day only to do thier drug? Don't they want more out of life? I just don't think they are happy with themselves and I do believe that they want more and to be clean, they just can't do it.
I also feel that they hate themselves for the hurt they cause, which causes them to go to the drug more...to numb their internal pain. So they can just get rthrough it, it's a vicious cycle.
I would compare it to having OCD, just not wanting and wanting to do it at the same time. I don't really understand but I do know that they aren't bad, hurtful people, they do care about the people they're hurting...they just realy need to seek help and work everyday for the rest of their lives to not give in to the drug. I've watched it rip everything away from the one I love and myself. I've lost the person I love (temporarily) and I'm just waiting for him to come back to me and our children.

Note: he's not in our home at this time, the drug landed him in prison. He is at his bottom and ready to seek help. I refuse to allow my children to see that side of him, so he has to be in some sort of counseling to come back into my home.

Answer 2

I used to live with a drug addict for 10 years. He was into heroin, Cocaine and Crack. He threatened to kill me if I ever tried any of the drugs he had tried, so I never did them. I felt like I had to try and rescue him from his problems that he was escaping all the time, mostly from his pasts as a child. He would revert to drugs and alcohol to ease his pain, but escalated pain on me. He was a beater. When he was sober and clean he was fine. He had been through prison while I was with him, and he had gone through many rehabs, and we had gone through many separations during the 10 years we were together. I wish that I can open my blog up for you on my 360 because I did a blog about violent relationships and how to leave abusive relationships. I cannot do that because there is a troll that is bothering me on here, that I cannot open up anything. I feel so violated from these trolls on here. I just shut everything down on here now.
My ex used to take off for several hours, used to steal my money, used to go downtown Vancouver, East Side to get his drugs. It was horrible. I never want to be with another drug addict alcoholic again.

Answer 3

Sterilisation is somewhat too absolute, because it does not cater for the indisputable fact that the addict could mend their strategies interior the destiny. they are actually an ex-addict yet nonetheless sterile. enable's settle for it, somewhat some them do get sparkling finally. look at Eric Clapton. a greater powerful theory is to impose some form of long-term birth control, for as long as they have the habit. whether, those styles of innovations could run alongside a desperate NHS help application to do away with the addictions and cope with the motives of them.

Answer 4

Drug addicts don't exist , they are people like you and me who , (( have a monkey on their back )) it's like ( name ) is normal,, you couldn't tell them from anybody else,, but every so many hours this other person starts to look around and notices that it has a need ( name ) doesn't want anything to take place , but this other person is going to get a fix sooner or later , name is now starting to notice a sence of dissconection with what ever else is going on , doesn't know why but notices a lack of interest in anything , this other person has now got their attention , this other person is now in controle and will be untill the fix ,,, after which ( name ) will be in his own shoes forced to deal with the mess that the other person has made of the life they are trying to lead as normally as possible ,,,

Answer 5

I had two friends of whom one of their parents was a drug addict (not related). The parents would buy them anything they wanted when they were on drugs and didn't care where their children were. They are hard to talk to, and will do anything for what they want.

Answer 6

My Dad was addicted to smoking until cancer made it impossible for him to keep doing it. And he stayed being an alcoholic until he died. Drug addiction is bad but he was also addicted to gambling. His gambling habits didn't affect our family in a financial way but I believe it was a contributing factor to his suicide.

Answer 7

well, her (friends sister) feelings change alot. i really don't know WHY shew does drugs, she has a nice family, good home and a loving boyfriend. she's really punctual about WHEN to take her drugs WHERE at and WHAT she's actually taking in.

Answer 8

its like talking to a wall