Did you know that treatment for substance abuse is actually not as common as it should be? Only a total of 41% of substance abusers receive treatment right now. This is NOT enough people. Substance abuse can damage your life through damaging your family, your relationships, your financial situations, and much more. In order to combat against these things you need to know what substance abuse is, how punishment is changing / if it’s working, and what you can do about it.
In order to prevent substance abuse we need to know what it is. Well substance abuse can be a lot of things really. The basic definition for it whould be something like substance abuse is constantly using substance to get physical or mental pleasure. Substance abuse is very different from social use. Social use is just using/drinking a substance for social reasons. Substance abuse is a point to where the user is not using for social reasons but because they’re addicted to the substance and their bodies may do things to make them get the substance because the body craves the liquor or drug. Addiction is a relapsing brain disorder that causes extreme drug or liquor seeking and use. The human body whould make the addicted person get and use the drug despite some of the consequences there may be.
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Our group took a field trip to Synergy which is a teen rehab center. We interviewed some people that we can’t say the names of. According to the anonymous people we interviewed , “We'd still have abused substances no matter if the laws were stricter or more lenient.” They also said that treatment is working effectively. So punishment and jail aren’t working as well as treatment is. These treatment centers like Synergy are a sign that the US is starting to look at substance abuse like some of the other european countries are but there's still work to
In order to prevent substance abuse we need to know what it is. Well substance abuse can be a lot of things really. The basic definition for it whould be something like substance abuse is constantly using substance to get physical or mental pleasure. Substance abuse is very different from social use. Social use is just using/drinking a substance for social reasons. Substance abuse is a point to where the user is not using for social reasons but because they’re addicted to the substance and their bodies may do things to make them get the substance because the body craves the liquor or drug. Addiction is a relapsing brain disorder that causes extreme drug or liquor seeking and use. The human body whould make the addicted person get and use the drug despite some of the consequences there may be.
Substance abuse refers to use of …show more content…
Our group took a field trip to Synergy which is a teen rehab center. We interviewed some people that we can’t say the names of. According to the anonymous people we interviewed , “We'd still have abused substances no matter if the laws were stricter or more lenient.” They also said that treatment is working effectively. So punishment and jail aren’t working as well as treatment is. These treatment centers like Synergy are a sign that the US is starting to look at substance abuse like some of the other european countries are but there's still work to