Personal Opinion Essay: Do People Have An Addiction?

Addictions can be very complicated and most definitely hard to understand at times. Everyone has their own values and beliefs about addiction whether it is about how addictions should be handled and treated or whether some addictions are more acceptable than others. I have always had a passion for helping others since i was little i have been told by many people that I am a great listener and I should go into counselling because I can give positive advise and help make realistic goals. My opinion on people who have an addiction is nothing less than anyone else because i believe that everyone has an addiction the difference is that some are worse than others in the sense that they can have a bigger impact on your life. It is not fair to mistreat …show more content…
I do not agree with making smokers pay more money because it would just be bias and unfair decision. I agree that we all make decisions that affect our health but i also believe that just because someone smokes it does not always mean that their health problems are caused by smoking. Learning and discussing all these scenarios was very interesting to me and was a great activity to help become even more engaged in the course. Some of the areas I 'm am hoping to know more knowledge about is each specific drug and what each of them do to your body and how badly they can effect your body. I also hope that in knowing more about drugs like the history different drug names and what feelings certain people get on specific drugs that it will help me gain a further understanding of why people use them to get out of certain situations. Gaining important information and knowledge from this course is very important to me because the more i know the better educated i am to help