Drug Addiction: to Cure or Not to Cure
Drug Addiction: To Cure or Not To Cure
University of Phoenix
Abstract
Drug addiction is a huge social problem, and to some individuals; feel there is no end. People either try to fight this disease or just put their hands down preferring to think that nothing could be done. This paper investigates what drug addiction really is and why some people believe it is incurable. Primarily the main focus of the work is dedicated to the issue of how this challenge may be addressed and the basic factors that would help to make the treatment work. Various visions of this problem are studied, and the conclusion is that any disease is possible to cure however the success of these actions in what concerns drug abuse is mostly dependent on the willingness of the patient to fight the illness.
Drug addiction is a global social problem, a war sweeping away millions of lives and demolishing national gene pools. There is no exaggeration in this definition. It is not a disease in a common sense of this word however it’s not a usual aspect healthy people may have. Drug abuse is a complete affection of the personality combined usually with the following complications of physical health. The most significant peculiarity of drug use is that being a pathological illness it is rather nonreversible, provided those negative changes of the person’s soul and mind which happened as a reaction to drugs will remain forever.
Many people are convinced that drug addiction is irremediable as the desire to take drugs often stays during the whole life. The bad issues are easily forgotten while the memory keeps only the bright moments. Drug addict is to realize that the consequences for health will never go away and should he or she decide on “one more time” it will turn into the same drug hell instantly. That is why the substance abuse professional (SAP) try to avoid the term “recovered
University of Phoenix
Abstract
Drug addiction is a huge social problem, and to some individuals; feel there is no end. People either try to fight this disease or just put their hands down preferring to think that nothing could be done. This paper investigates what drug addiction really is and why some people believe it is incurable. Primarily the main focus of the work is dedicated to the issue of how this challenge may be addressed and the basic factors that would help to make the treatment work. Various visions of this problem are studied, and the conclusion is that any disease is possible to cure however the success of these actions in what concerns drug abuse is mostly dependent on the willingness of the patient to fight the illness.
Drug addiction is a global social problem, a war sweeping away millions of lives and demolishing national gene pools. There is no exaggeration in this definition. It is not a disease in a common sense of this word however it’s not a usual aspect healthy people may have. Drug abuse is a complete affection of the personality combined usually with the following complications of physical health. The most significant peculiarity of drug use is that being a pathological illness it is rather nonreversible, provided those negative changes of the person’s soul and mind which happened as a reaction to drugs will remain forever.
Many people are convinced that drug addiction is irremediable as the desire to take drugs often stays during the whole life. The bad issues are easily forgotten while the memory keeps only the bright moments. Drug addict is to realize that the consequences for health will never go away and should he or she decide on “one more time” it will turn into the same drug hell instantly. That is why the substance abuse professional (SAP) try to avoid the term “recovered
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