Drug Addiction Interview Paper

On the fifth of March, I interview Chris Niederhaus on the topic adolescent drug and alcohol abuse. At Pleasanton Police Department (PPD) Chris works as a detective, he regularly takes classes about drug usage in communities, teenagers, and suspects. As a young boy, he always wanted to be a police officer just like his father had been; Chris admired his father and what he did to help his community. In college, Chris majored in law enforcement and then criminal justice. Before he became a detective he worked as a police officer for eight years. Originally, people thought to be a detective is going out, fighting crime, and putting away felons. Alas, it is far more than that; he looks at multiple cases at once and has to constantly consider scenarios, …show more content…
According to Chris, it depends on the drugs the person uses because some drugs will take a longer time to process. A great deal of getting addicted relies on family traits and, drugs have a much to do with bodies. If someone started drugs at a younger age, they would become are more susceptible to addiction because their bodies are not completely developed. Addicted people continually abuse drugs, although they know it is unhealthy and they have a problem. This goes back to genetics, “their bodies have become used to processing the drugs, so now their bodies have it and process it regularly they will have a high demand for it.” If doing drugs is a routine to someone their body regularly knows how process drugs. The younger the person doing the drugs the more likely they will become addicted, if they are teenagers starting the drugs become addicted is not going to become a problem. Chris states that being twenty-one is critical to starting drugs, “most teenagers who start drugs at fifteen are around six times more likely to become addicted almost instantly.” I now know that the teenagers at my school who do mess with drugs are most likely to become addicted in less than a few months. Although, if the officer is not able to tell if they are on drugs the officer can not put them under