How Drug Addiction Affects Individuals And Groups Within Our Society

Drug addiction is an immensely increasing issue that has an altering effect on individuals and groups within our society. Overall, it is a chronic disease resulting in a compulsion of repeated drug use where it interferes with ordinary life’s responsibilities (“Addition”). Addiction impedes us from reaching our full potential and is influenced by our psychological mindset. This can be witnessed by Santos Kalwar: “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” This shows that our primary motivations and ethics are an inclination influenced by our mindset, where our capability to remove addiction focuses around changing it immensely. Addiction can hinder anyone, regardless of their motivations and individual capability. It leads to other people being affected as it causes problems in family structure and contributes to the delinquency in society. The idea of why certain individuals become addicts where others don’t, still has to be explored. Many theories are devoted to the idea of addiction’s cause, where they mainly focus on biological vulnerability, reinforcement of drug use and other sustaining factors (Barber). These would include the surrounding environment, past-trauma, mental illness, influence of peers, intelligence and the individual’s personality (“Contributing Factors Of Drug Abuse”). All theories represent important and concrete hypothesis, as scientific and surrounding influences can be witnessed, but more data…