Addiction In Adolescents

Addiction is a compulsive need. What starts as a deceiving enjoyable experience, turns into an uncontrollable destructive craving. This compulsive need is more prevalent than many realize. In 2011, there were an estimated 20.6 million United States citizens of ages twelve and older who were abusing substances (Smith). For some it was a choice, for others it was inherent. The thought of a twelve year old choosing the path of addiction terrifies the other non-addictive majority of the population. However, the majority of the addicted population is from the ages twenty to twenty- four. This age range is not only significant in the fact that they are adults but they are the future of this great nation. Also what correlates with the age range is
The reasons for a dependent to get to that state, with drugs like marijuana, opium, and cocaine, it that it gives the dependent a stimulating “ride.” However, the continuous taking of these addictive substances drives a dependent to unavoidable health complications or even death. Among the dependent individuals, these complications are more common in teens and young adults.
There are two distinct reasons for this trend. For starters, youngsters are more inquisitive. Thus, whenever they see a substance that is unsafe and potentially dangerous, they are the first to explore it. The second reason is the dissatisfaction and even anger in their current life or living situation; they are looking for an escape. This reason has turned drugs into a worldwide issue. Families in urban communities and towns everywhere are straightforwardly or in a roundabout way influenced by it.
There is not only the fact that once you take a harsh drug you are hooked, but there is a physical reason not to take drugs. Drugs are comparable to a slow poison. The drugs start by damaging non-reproductive brain cells, and then move slowing to the internal functions in the body. If not treated, the drugs effects can lead to death. This is a sad reality, but it is our
Many medical professors over the years have tried to locate the source of alcoholism and if some people are more susceptible to it than others. Experts resolved to the conclusion that things do not affect alcoholism like genetics, gender, or race. So this means basically anyone can be an alcoholic, that’s reassuring. Even though the cause of alcoholism is not linked to the three uncontrollable sources the experts proposed, behavioral, physiological, or social factors could lead to someone becoming an alcoholic. This disease should not be taken lightly, and once addicted, no matter how they got to that state, the addicts may not be able to control themselves mentally or physically. Research has proven that, during the time of any addiction, there are severe, physical changes that happen to the chemicals in the brain (Smith). Those changes’ affects happen in several ways. How severe or frequent the affects surface depends on one person to the next. There are two different types of alcoholics who drink to get those affects. Some people drink all day every day, constantly drunk all the time, and others wait until sundown and drink a lot in short period of time then wait until their next binge