Essay About Causes Of Addiction

I remember a very dark time in my childhood when my mother would shut herself in the bathroom for hours at a time. I did not understand why my mother would do such a thing or what exactly she was doing in the bathroom, but when I got older, I felt it necessary to talk to her about the situation our family endured for three years in my youth. She confessed to me that she was addicted to crack for those three years. She told me she never meant to hurt any of us, and that she was sorry over and over again. I could not accept this; I hated her for doing that to our family. We had enough problems without her adding an addiction to the mix. I proceeded to ask her questions, almost like interrogating her. She did not get upset, though. She went on …show more content…
She looked at me when she was done with the story, and she told me, " I was either going to die on that road for the mistakes I made in my life, or I was going to be reborn and never make those mistakes again." The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered is completely different than I anticipated and a serious thought to consider. The author offers a very different view on addiction than we are originally taught. I was told from the moment I was educated on what drugs were that the reason people become addicted is more or less the fault of the person addicted to the drug. The addiction comes from a chemical hijack in the brain, and the person who takes the drug the first time automatically becomes addicted, at least, that is what we are told. Each time a person becomes addicted, the fault falls directly on the person, and they are expected to stop or face being shunned or shut out from their family and friends. The author is claiming that this way of thinking is flawed. They are expressing that if this is true, then every person that does drugs should be addicted; however, that is not the case. In multiple studies and situations, this theory has been