Humans have a deep history with drug abuse because of using drugs for thousands of years. The earliest documented usage of narcotics dates back to 4,000 B.C, with medicinal marijuana being present in China around 2,737 B.C., as the modern era flows the cases of drug abuse got worst, one example is as of the year 2014, the users of heroin in the United States has an estimated of 180,000 upwards.
Some people perceive victims of drug addiction as people who lack integrity, while some would already label them as what they are, addicts. Misconceptions often happen with issues concerning a person’s mental well-being, like drug addiction. In fact, addiction is more complex than how people see it.
It is a chronic brain disorder that involves disruptions in the brain activity, as well as the other functional organs and systems in the body. Because of various reasons, the first use of drugs may or may not be voluntary, but if the intake increases, brain alterations, which are caused by the repetitive consumption of drugs, can affect a person’s resistance over it, making it difficult for them to stop looking for more and more.
Victims of this disorder can get treated, although the chance of it coming back remains, which defines the term “relapse”. However, this illness should still not be taken lightly.
Drugs don't just affect our bodies and psychical health, it also affects us mentally and socially.
The negative behaviors carry in a wide range that often adversely affect their loved ones. It can be difficult to be in the role of friend or family member of a person who is engaged with drug addiction. The thing is, due to the fact that most addicts are heavily steeped in denial, they are not aware of the full impact of their actions on themselves so they let it affect those they love. Consequently, it damages the ways they cope with the addict in the family as well as how family members interact with one another. People who are engaged with drug addiction may experience isolation, negative mindset as well as roles, they may expose other family members or worst they may lose relationships. Additionally, addiction greatly affect finances, health and psychological well-being.
Why is it hard to Quit drug addiction? According to 'The National Institute of Drug Abuse, our brain is viewed as a signal tower for our body and whenever we took drugs, the chemicals in our brain change and this affects your choices, actions and even the way you feel. The part of the brain that makes you feel pleasure and enjoyment changes, normally the factors of activates that enable these pleasure signals are whenever you eat, sleep, fall in love or do other things that make you feel entertained.After a while, the drugs become more necessary and eliminate those other previous factors.
Over the flow of time, some people who are vulnerable to drugs said using them just makes the sensation “normal”. 'Tolerance' is when the user's brain and body adapted the effects of the drugs. Developing a tolerance to drugs is when a regular dose doesn't give them the same rush and only makes them high on a short period of time, they will take more but never feel the same way because when the drug (specifical meth) finds it's way to the brain it finds less dopamine and the previous takes also has destroyed transporters thus, making all that over-stimulation caused to withdraw. Some people even desperately changed the methods of using meth from snorting, smoking and even shooting it, due to tolerance and thought it was just an ordinary activity to do.