When someone uses drugs, he or she is generally looking for some kind of benefit, or “high”. This paper is about drug addiction and its possible causes. There are many likely causes that would allow for someone to become addicted to drugs. Even though there are many possible factors that lead to an individual becoming addicted , in the following text I will be focusing on the social cause of drug use and how they can cause drug use to become a learned and addictive behavior.
Today’s society has an obsession with drug use. Drug use has saturated every aspect of our daily living. When you turn on the television, you see various TV shows and movies making reference to casual drug use. On social media, one might see their favorite celebrities …show more content…
They are attempting to forge their own way in the world and form their own identities. When trying to find themselves they may begin to look I emulate the people around them. This is called automatic mimicry. On the route to self-discovery, they may begin to look in the wrong places for role models and model themselves after people around them or people they see in the media that aren’t living lives that others should have as something that they want to mimic. They think that they are proclaiming themselves as individuals, but in reality they are conforming, modifying their behavior in order to fit in, to a society that has an obsession with drug …show more content…
This harmful behavior, drug addiction, can lead to lead to anger and aggression towards others if someone tries to take their drugs away. Let’s say a teen is having a difficult time in school. They make use drugs as a way to cope with their recent failures. When they begin using drugs, they also begin to make other drug using friends. If the teen’s parents try to come in between them and their newfound “friends” or in between them and their drug use, they will be met with nothing, but hostility and anger from their child. When one is prevented from reaching a goal, in this case the friends or the drugs, they experience something called the frustration-aggression principle (Myers, 2014). They become frustrated when they can’t get to the friends or drugs which then leads to anger. This aggression behavior and drug use is looked at as antisocial
Today’s society has an obsession with drug use. Drug use has saturated every aspect of our daily living. When you turn on the television, you see various TV shows and movies making reference to casual drug use. On social media, one might see their favorite celebrities …show more content…
They are attempting to forge their own way in the world and form their own identities. When trying to find themselves they may begin to look I emulate the people around them. This is called automatic mimicry. On the route to self-discovery, they may begin to look in the wrong places for role models and model themselves after people around them or people they see in the media that aren’t living lives that others should have as something that they want to mimic. They think that they are proclaiming themselves as individuals, but in reality they are conforming, modifying their behavior in order to fit in, to a society that has an obsession with drug …show more content…
This harmful behavior, drug addiction, can lead to lead to anger and aggression towards others if someone tries to take their drugs away. Let’s say a teen is having a difficult time in school. They make use drugs as a way to cope with their recent failures. When they begin using drugs, they also begin to make other drug using friends. If the teen’s parents try to come in between them and their newfound “friends” or in between them and their drug use, they will be met with nothing, but hostility and anger from their child. When one is prevented from reaching a goal, in this case the friends or the drugs, they experience something called the frustration-aggression principle (Myers, 2014). They become frustrated when they can’t get to the friends or drugs which then leads to anger. This aggression behavior and drug use is looked at as antisocial