Drug Abuse In America

Drug addiction pertains to illegal and legal drug abuse. These drugs include: prescription medication (misuse), marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and recreational drugs (ecstasy/molly, acid/mushrooms, etc). After alcohol marijuana is the most abused drug in America. In 2013 4.8 million Americans met the criteria for dependency on marijuana. That is twice the amount of Americans dependent on pain medication and five times the amount of Americans dependent on cocaine. In comparison to prescription medication abuse marijuana abuse, in America, has increased over the last decade. While other drug use has stabilized or decreased. Most drug use starts in the late teens and continues into the early twenties. Illegal drug use usually starts with marijuana and leads to other illegal drugs (painkillers, LSD, ecstasy). The most common drug that leads to addiction …show more content…
Exercise addiction is often paired with eating disorders such as anorexia and orthorexia. Orthorexia is a less known eating disorder that people rarely identify as a problem. Orthorexia is the obsession, and essentially addiction, to eating “clean.” In simple forms it is someone who must eat healthy (whole foods, unprocessed, etc) in order to feel ok with themselves. The difference in someone who likes to eat healthy and someone who feels they must eat healthy is: someone who likes to eat healthy to maintain weight has no problem splurging every once in awhile or isn't opposed to eating something “unhealthy” if that is what is available. Exercise addiction is also hard to identify. The small difference of someone who exercises normally and someone obsessed is: an addict will run even if they are in pain etc. Nothing will stop them from missing their daily workout. In fact they feel guilty and uneasy with themselves if they miss a workout. Someone who exercises normally knows when to rest their body and are okay if they miss a