addictions?

Question

If someone went through a year long run of drug and alcohol abuse,
can it change them into a different person?I mean if they go from being a nice well mannered guy,into a monster who intimidates people whio cross his path including women,is always paranoid,is secretive and short term memory loss.Is it the result of drugs?Anmd will people notice?Also,why do they say that once someone becomes an addict(even for a year)the brain never fully recovers and they essentially will never be the same person?Will people notice the change?

Answer 1

well, yes, and no...

Mostly people say the brain never recovers because of the inability for the brain to regenerate cells that were damaged due to drug use. Then it causes different disorders and such. Is it the result of the drugs? possibly. Will anyone notice? I dunno, there are a lot of goofy people out there, there's no telling who's on drugs and who isn't.

I guess what you're trying to say is will they be the same person that they were before the addiction? That's a hard question to answer....considering that the choices we make in life are constantly changing us. I'm sure you're a different person now than you were...say, in gradeschool.

My experience with addiction is that usually the two selves merge...(I don't know if this will make sense, but hang in there) They usually have parts of what they were before and still have *addict behavoir* that was learned when they were using.

Before I started using, I was a very *good girl*. Seriously. But when I started, I became really different...I was loud, obnoxious, secretive, coniving, devious, you name it...I lost a lot of *me* because of it. I'm still the *good girl* in most ways, but I still have some addict behavior as well. Trust issues, the way I act around authority, my smart mouth, isolation. It goes on and on.

For me ending addiction was easy...I got pregnant. For others, well, it's just not that simple. Especially for those who've used for years, and years. I think trying to kick an addiction early has better results, maybe, but that's my opinion.

Answer 2

Once the drug/Alcohol is removed the individual will start to return to their norm. Hopefully the experience will have been so pain-full, the behavior will not be repeated.
If the person has become sensitized, they will never be able to drink again. They are addicted.
Alcohol effects the chemical balance of the brain, and will cause mental problems, again however when the drug is removed the person starts to return to their psychological norm.
Would suggest some AA, meeting might be called for, check it out.

Answer 3

People do tend to change for the worse when they go for an extended period of a drug and alcohol addiction, after so long their mind gets dependent on the drug, and eventually their body will get physically dependent on it as well, but as far as if their Brain can fully recover or not depends on the degree of their addiction, how long the addiction last, and what substance they were addicted to, there are recorded cases of recovered alcoholics whose brains fully recovered after have recovered from the addiction after a period of time and absent use of mind altering substances.

Answer 4

Even a very nice person if he start using drugs , well yes his behavior will change and it doent matter what you say to this person . he will go in the wrong direction . His life is controlled by drugs