Las Vegas Drug Abuse

The abuse of drugs among individuals is one of the primary causes of family disputes within the United States. The UNLV Center for Democratic Culture show that drug abuse can include anything from tobacco and alcohol to many over the counter pain killers as well as hardcore drugs like cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy. Pain killers are on top of that list in Las Vegas among teen users since they are easier to acquire. Also, this article show statistics of how Nevada, specifically Las Vegas has a much higher drug abuse among teens for any illicit drugs than anywhere in the country. Drug abusers not only harm themselves, but their family and others surrounding them. The harm caused by addiction is never forgotten since relatives are put under enormous …show more content…
In order to find out more I had to start looking for a family to interview and get real facts from people with experience in this situation. I found several families but only one interested me the most. This family was certainly different from the others. From what I saw all the members tried to help the cocaine addict and wished the best for him. The family was led by a single mother whose name is Sophia, two sisters named Camille and Hade and the cocaine addicts name is Brian. I surely could see the struggle of this single mother throughout her hazel eyes, the pain both sisters had to live day to day just hoping that their brother would be able to quite his drug abuse. However, the only thing I could see on Brian was the cocaine addiction reflected all over his poor …show more content…
She said that he started to use cocaine when he was 15 and she noticed a month before he turned 16. Camille and Hade commented, “We were very scared and we did not know if to fear our own brother or fear for his life.” Camille and Hade said that everything happened to quickly, and that he was a role model to them. They felt very disappointed and confused, they could not believe their brother was so selfish and decided to affect his family that way. For a moment Hade thought that her family was going to be torn apart, and that nothing was going to be the same, “I thought I had lost my brother and my family was fading through my hands” said Hade. On the other hand Camille mentioned, “I knew my mom is strong enough, she could bring us all together, it was just a bad time, and every family goes through one.” From the comments of all the family members I could tell that they did not lose the hope that they had in Brian, but the real question was if Brian had lost all hope in