Abuse Explaining the use of drugs is an important issue that continues to grow in today’s society. The abuse of drugs can be deadly and can alter lives very quickly. There are several explanations to why drug use and is a problem. Abusing drugs is derived from several factors such as family, peers, community, drugs, and social economics. Even though drugs affect many people, the affects can be faced in successful ways.
Nearly every culture has had a problem with the use of drugs and drug abuse (Hanson, Venturelli, & Fleckenstein, 2012). Drugs have caused many illnesses and injuries across the world from continued misuse of licit and illicit drugs. Having the exact cause to drug abuse is yet to be known, but there are several risk factors that …show more content…
There are many other factors that are associated to drug addiction such as, ones genetics, their mental health status and family. When people are born they do not choose their genes. Genetics, mixed with differential environments play a major role to drug addiction (Hanson, Venturelli, & Fleckenstein, 2012). In today’s society, it said that genetics is a disease that runs in the family blood, which drug abuse and addiction acts like many other disease that are passed through genetics and certain people are faced with the increase risk of becoming an addict (The Genetic and Environmental Bases of Addiction, 2008). Even though genetics play a major part in addiction, a person’s environmental involvement also triggers a person who uses and become a drug addict and abuser. Drug use is behavior that is learned so the environment for a drug addict is usually the first experience where drugs are experimented (Nora D. Volkow, 2014). The environment of drug abused have many other influences that varies from family, friends, to their socioeconomic status which may include the quality of their life. “Therefore, the environment in which a person acquires the knowledge of how to use must be important to the formation of an addiction (Nora D. Volkow, …show more content…
Using drugs has a major risk factor of passing infectious diseases such HIV by having sex that is unsafe and sharing of needles (Stanley J. Swierzewski, 2001). The risk factors and effects of drugs are all determined on how and what drug that is being abused. Drug addicts are more prone to drive and do illegal acts while under the influence of drugs. Drug use and abuse causes abusers to eventually cause falling performances at work, school absentees, resulting in the permeant loss of job and school dropout. It is very common for drug users to have illegal affairs by buying or possessing illegal drugs and stealing to support their habit. Supporting a drug addiction takes away from personal needs, ending in debt and leads to illegal and unethical
Nearly every culture has had a problem with the use of drugs and drug abuse (Hanson, Venturelli, & Fleckenstein, 2012). Drugs have caused many illnesses and injuries across the world from continued misuse of licit and illicit drugs. Having the exact cause to drug abuse is yet to be known, but there are several risk factors that …show more content…
There are many other factors that are associated to drug addiction such as, ones genetics, their mental health status and family. When people are born they do not choose their genes. Genetics, mixed with differential environments play a major role to drug addiction (Hanson, Venturelli, & Fleckenstein, 2012). In today’s society, it said that genetics is a disease that runs in the family blood, which drug abuse and addiction acts like many other disease that are passed through genetics and certain people are faced with the increase risk of becoming an addict (The Genetic and Environmental Bases of Addiction, 2008). Even though genetics play a major part in addiction, a person’s environmental involvement also triggers a person who uses and become a drug addict and abuser. Drug use is behavior that is learned so the environment for a drug addict is usually the first experience where drugs are experimented (Nora D. Volkow, 2014). The environment of drug abused have many other influences that varies from family, friends, to their socioeconomic status which may include the quality of their life. “Therefore, the environment in which a person acquires the knowledge of how to use must be important to the formation of an addiction (Nora D. Volkow, …show more content…
Using drugs has a major risk factor of passing infectious diseases such HIV by having sex that is unsafe and sharing of needles (Stanley J. Swierzewski, 2001). The risk factors and effects of drugs are all determined on how and what drug that is being abused. Drug addicts are more prone to drive and do illegal acts while under the influence of drugs. Drug use and abuse causes abusers to eventually cause falling performances at work, school absentees, resulting in the permeant loss of job and school dropout. It is very common for drug users to have illegal affairs by buying or possessing illegal drugs and stealing to support their habit. Supporting a drug addiction takes away from personal needs, ending in debt and leads to illegal and unethical