Is Addiction A Disease Essay

The articles that I choose to read is “Is addiction a disease?” and “Addiction: Character Defect or Chronic Disease?” I choose this article due to I am a twenty year old former addict. Over forty million people have an addiction. These addictions usually happen in teens while their brains are not fully develop so their more suitable for this addictive disease. This addictive behavior usually occurs from family, friends, media and environment. The media says people need just to make better decisions but that’s not always the case, teens have slow decision and judgment making skills which don’t allow them to have interest in their long term health. Medical professionals see addiction of drugs, alcohol, and illicit substances as a disease. Though …show more content…
As a former addict and having personal experience I believe that drugs and alcohol uses are influence from the friends, family, and the environment. In my case it was it was all three parents, sibling did drugs and alcohol, older friends doing it, and just my environment due to its just a natural thing to get high and sell drugs by walking down the street you will see several people doing it. Another thing I agree with about these articles is the long term health issues, for instance memory loss and learning. I feel these addictions are from having a disease and moral failing. It is a disease by having impairment of self-care, self-perception and always wanting to have these pleasures due from emotions or being around it craving these substances. For moral failing I also believe they have a choice once they get older from imprisonment knowing what right or wrong or from society telling …show more content…
If they still have anything of these example then they can’t trust their friends or family because they will rob them for their drugs or money I’ve seen it happen to me. If they still have future then they just hadn’t hit rock bottom being homeless, and broke but sooner or later it will happen it happened to my friends even myself. If you feel that it’s a choice then obviously you never did it or experience all the problems that happen in there life. I’ve met so many different time of people from being child molested, rape, and abused physically or mentally. Another reason is the environment because, they obviously never been raised in the hood, in my hood just b7y walking down a couple of books on Stockton Boulevard you will see hookers, drug dealers, crack heads, and etc. so this is a natural thing believing that one of these things is your future and why not do it now since this is my