Understanding Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is a very serious sickness that should not involve their life and family. It is something that can change your life by just one poor decision. People who try drugs for the first time tend to say that they will not get addicted or it will be just a one time event. Drug addiction is not worth losing everything that you have or ever had in life. A drug addiction is the desire to keep doing the drugs and they want more and more. Drug addiction will become a brain disease because your brain is now used to that drug and you think you need that drug for you to be able to function. “Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and for those around him or her” (“Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction”). People who try a drug just for fun tend to do it again or may even try stronger drugs to get the high they experienced the first time or that they are expecting. They will try the drugs so that they can fit in, escape or relax, to relieve boredom, to seem grown up, feeling rebellious and also to experiment to just see how it may feel (“Why Do People Use Drugs”). Most drugs that people may try will be a gateway drug that makes that person continue on to other drugs. The most …show more content…
People who are addicted to drugs will lose everything that they have and even their family or close friends. Drug addiction is not worth it, you can get help or find ways to avoid trying drugs for a first time. You can avoid peer pressure at all costs if they wanted you to try the drugs and they knew that was going to be the outcome they are not a good friend anyway. Help is always an option, do not let drugs take over your whole entire life. Drug addiction is not worth losing everything that you have in life avoid trying any kind of drug, be the best person you can be and stay drug