“Addiction breaks bonds and hearts and all the rules.” The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction by Sandra Swenson. One’s addiction to drugs creates a tremendous toll on the body, not only theirs but especially for those around them. Those that truly suffer are those who hold the addict close to their heart, financially they have to be strong. The same follows for their own health and cooperating with the user. The use of drugs, abusive and recreational evokes many complications not just in the lives of the abuser but in the lives of those that care for them as well. Ashwood Recovery reports “...over 20 million people nationwide suffer from drug and alcohol abuse issues. Perhaps worse, the cost of treatment and incarceration
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The failure to accept responsibilities for their actions is the direct show of ignorance towards those that they care about. This is often due to the unwillingness to believe that they have contributed to a person’s deteriorating health. Along with this, addicts can be unwilling to change, creating many household problems. Creating fights between the user and household members, these addicts can feel as though they are getting better on their own or simply refuse to change. Others have become too dependant on the drugs to guide their way of life. An example of that case would with my father and his extensive cigarette use. He does not have breakfast, he has three cigarettes and a cup of coffee. For lunch he has five cigarettes and whatever he feels to eat, as one can see, it is not a healthy lifestyle. He has been smoking since he has been 16 years old, after so many years of dependency on the cigarettes. He claims that he would go insane if he would not be able to smoke at least a pack a day, with years of trying to get him to quit it proved to be in vain. Although the amount of cigarettes he smokes daily has been cut in half, it still is too many. The cigarettes have shown to make him temperamental and slightly bipolar, nothing that is even remotely healthy within a family household. Addiction is not only a disease of the user but those around them as well, the needs of the addict outweigh the needs of those around
The failure to accept responsibilities for their actions is the direct show of ignorance towards those that they care about. This is often due to the unwillingness to believe that they have contributed to a person’s deteriorating health. Along with this, addicts can be unwilling to change, creating many household problems. Creating fights between the user and household members, these addicts can feel as though they are getting better on their own or simply refuse to change. Others have become too dependant on the drugs to guide their way of life. An example of that case would with my father and his extensive cigarette use. He does not have breakfast, he has three cigarettes and a cup of coffee. For lunch he has five cigarettes and whatever he feels to eat, as one can see, it is not a healthy lifestyle. He has been smoking since he has been 16 years old, after so many years of dependency on the cigarettes. He claims that he would go insane if he would not be able to smoke at least a pack a day, with years of trying to get him to quit it proved to be in vain. Although the amount of cigarettes he smokes daily has been cut in half, it still is too many. The cigarettes have shown to make him temperamental and slightly bipolar, nothing that is even remotely healthy within a family household. Addiction is not only a disease of the user but those around them as well, the needs of the addict outweigh the needs of those around