Kristina's Drug Addiction

Drug addiction in the United States not only destroys the lives of the user, but the lives of their family and friends as well. Kristina is a troubled drug addict mother with five children who do not even know who their mother is. Her addiction to meth causes her to become a teenage mother to her first born Hunter, and the young mother of five some short years to come. Her children are all put up for adoption as they are born, because Kristina cannot take care of them due to her drug addiction. The only child that is kept in the family is her first born Hunter, who is adopted by Kristina 's mother before he is a year old. Kristina’s addiction does not allow her to find the will to take care of her children or even be with the rest of her family …show more content…
They are always alone distant from society that shuts them away because of their addiction. Before Kristina’s addiction she had friends in school and interacted with her family and friends. Once Kristina became addicted to meth she was shut away from everything. The friends she uses to have in school no longer wanted to be friends with her. Her and her family did not interact with one another anymore like they did before her addiction. Not only do her friends and family shut her out but men and society shuts her out. Kristina wants to interact with people and wants her friends and family back saying, “So close to feeling like maybe I have a chance at being okay. So close to feeling normal, regular, not a misfit at all, but someone worthy of a friend and why not only a friend, but a boyfriend” (Hopkins 114). Kristina talks to herself about how she wishes she was normal like everyone else she sees and wasn 't an outcast and shut away from society. Kristina is pushed away by people in her school and outside of her school because her addiction to meth causing her to interact with people who are involved with the substance and in her exact same social group. Researchers have concluded how drug addiction affects people in society saying “The impact of drug abuse is a complete societal problem that leaves no person in this country, either directly or indirectly, untouched" (“Methamphetamine”). Meth and the other substances Kristina uses changes the way she interacts with her family and friends around her and she has no way of changing or controlling it. Kristina’s drug addiction causes people that she used to know in her life to leave and not want to be around her. It also causes people to not want to become involved with her shutting her out of groups and the only people that will be around her are the people with drug addictions like hers that are separated from society as