According to the Office for National Statistics, 3,300 people died from drug poisoning in 2014 in England and Wales, the highest figure since modern records began in 1993. Deaths from heroin and/or morphine increased by 579 to 952 between 2012 and 2014. Heroin is an illegal highly addictive recreational drug with extremely painful withdrawal symptoms which was first manufactured around 1848 in Germany as a treatment for tuberculosis but its use consequently grew in the 1850’s in the United States of America as an explication for opium addicts. Regrettably it brought into existence morphine addiction despite being created as a non-addictive substitute for morphine.
Every day the media offers tons of information about drug and alcohol abuse …show more content…
The media only provides food for thought, leaving the audience deal with the rest and make the choice. Although the topic of abuse and addiction is quite delicate, billions of dollars are being invested into the media showing more and more stories, old and new, about people suffering from these problems and making suffer everyone around. The portrayal of an addict person in the media varies from positive image of a ‘lost’ sufferer to an abusive and aggressive individual hurting others, especially the closest: the family or the beloved. The character of an addict is greatly influenced by the psychological and physical dependence – his or her behavior is determined by either a stage of intoxication or the lack of …show more content…
A drug or alcohol addict in unable to control temper and mood, and reaction to the slightest irritation. The children suffer most because they are unable to walk away, move out and protect themselves from domestic abuse of a parent with substance addiction. Substance addictions threaten the life of an addict and the safety of his family. One day such person may just ruin everything that ever mattered to him or her. For Alice Green it happened the day she came back home blind drunk and gave a slap in the face of her elder daughter Jessica, who simply worried whether her mother was fine. But her mother was not, she took vodka after aspirin. In less than an hour Jessica found her mother lying on the bathroom floor naked and
Every day the media offers tons of information about drug and alcohol abuse …show more content…
The media only provides food for thought, leaving the audience deal with the rest and make the choice. Although the topic of abuse and addiction is quite delicate, billions of dollars are being invested into the media showing more and more stories, old and new, about people suffering from these problems and making suffer everyone around. The portrayal of an addict person in the media varies from positive image of a ‘lost’ sufferer to an abusive and aggressive individual hurting others, especially the closest: the family or the beloved. The character of an addict is greatly influenced by the psychological and physical dependence – his or her behavior is determined by either a stage of intoxication or the lack of …show more content…
A drug or alcohol addict in unable to control temper and mood, and reaction to the slightest irritation. The children suffer most because they are unable to walk away, move out and protect themselves from domestic abuse of a parent with substance addiction. Substance addictions threaten the life of an addict and the safety of his family. One day such person may just ruin everything that ever mattered to him or her. For Alice Green it happened the day she came back home blind drunk and gave a slap in the face of her elder daughter Jessica, who simply worried whether her mother was fine. But her mother was not, she took vodka after aspirin. In less than an hour Jessica found her mother lying on the bathroom floor naked and