Addicted America Research Paper

Addicted America: The Struggle to Cure Every year, approximately $600 billion dollars is spent on illegal drugs. All of that money could match Bill Gate’s fortune 7 times. While there are thousands becoming addicted each day, about 200,000 addicts will die each year of an overdose. Drug addiction is becoming a bigger problem as each day passes by. Treatment plans for this epidemic continue to fail. Only 23% of addicts that go through these treatment plans fully become drug free. The question of why treatments are failing is yet to be answered. The solution to this growing problem is to improve treatment plans. Although treatment can be improved, drug addiction should be treated as a disorder due to adolescent peer pressure, negative care giving, and addict to family miscommunication. …show more content…
Defining any type of addiction is referred to as a periodic use or action. Substance addiction, however, is likely to be correspondent when defining an addict (Kosovski and Smith 854). Dopamine is the neurotransmitter responsible for the ongoing pleasure the body receives while using drugs (Jedras and Field 2). An urging need of a “high” is the main objective for the addict (Piazza 388). Effects of drugs result in abnormalities in bodily functions (Bartlett et al. 350). A continuous reoccurrence of using becomes an everyday trend (Kovac 22). Self control becomes invisible as the path to addiction becomes longer (Jedras and Field 2). Drug resources continue to grow everyday (Zimic and Valdo