Addiction Short Story Addiction

If cocaine were legal, what would the little packages be called? Sweet N' High! Unfortunately, this is an example of what is commonly known as a “crack joke.” Drugs are increasingly being misused and abused. Yet, today’s youth in its ignorance takes drugs as a light matter. It is a different story altogether from someone who has actually used drugs. In Beautiful Boy, journalist David Sheff recounts his own and his son, Nic’s journey of drug abuse. Sheff’s memoir is a haunting experience filled with tears, brawls, and ample amounts of crystal meth. In Beautiful Boy, Sheff, while applying a casual and conversational style, effectively uses rhetoric to share his experience with an addicted teen.

Today’s teenagers are more prone to drug abuse because they see it as a way of rebellion. Author Tiana Rosenberg stated on 2012 that more and more teens are smoking each year because it is considered cool. It’s a form of teenage rebellion, the carelessness and disobeying adults. Teens think they are invincible and overweigh the pleasures of doing drugs over the risks. Part of the brain dealing with making decisions are still developing (Moore

Recovering from addiction presents you with challenges to say the least. You have to give up your drug of choice, which can be scary, literally painful, and sometimes, even sad. It’s the sadness, or rather the emotional side of addiction that I want to address here.

Stories such as Farinick’s are not uncommon. Recent U.S. government reports have shown the increasing amount of teen deaths as a result of drug overdoses. Horrifyingly, teen’s perceptions about drugs have been changing. In the Monitoring the Future survey, a survey run by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Lloyd D. Johnston, the principal reporter for this survey reported that only 36% of 12th graders said that they thought that smoking pot is harmful (Johnston).

“C’mon! Smoke it! Do it!” are one of the many things you here in high school. Teens are too eager to grow up too fast, they want to try and smoke cigarettes, marijuana, crack, etc.. they want to fit in so much to the point of they don’t realize that they are putting themselves in trouble. One of the examples that pops up into my head is one of the scenes in the book “breathing underwater” when Nick keeps putting his girlfriend down making her feel bad pressuring her to do things with him. In the end he ended up as a violent person. That is why teens need to be educated in a classroom instead of putting up “drug free school” posters around the building.

Growing up I have heard many negative stories revolving addiction towards video games and the misusages of computers. However, it had the most positive impact in my life because it was a channel for me to comfortably express my personality and expertise. During my middle school years, I experienced multiple episodes of seizure leading to my diagnosis of epilepsy. I had to take very strong medications twice a day made me feel abnormal, excluded, and subordinate compared to the rest of my classmates. I performed extremely poorly during those years, causing everyone I knew to look at me as a failure because I was ashamed to admit my condition. On an interface like online video gaming, I felt normal compared to others because I was considered very

The use and misuse of illicit drugs in today’s society can be blamed on both individual, and societal factors. With the use of societal factors researchers can show the effect for a larger population, and provide better information of the population. Blaming the individual for developing the addiction will not fix issues that lie in society that worked against the individual, the underlying issues of poverty and addiction, many scholarly articles mention bad neighborhoods, low income, and loose family ties with future drug use. I will be using evidence from articles involving both teen and adult drug use and addiction, as the effect on society is noticed in both age brackets. “Substance use is considered a problem by individual addicts who seek treatment, by institutions within society (such as the police or the medical system) that deal with substance use and its consequences on a day-to-day basis, and by national organizations such as governments or supranational organizations, such as the International Narcotics Control Board (a United Nations agency located in Vienna). (Adrian) I will be using scholarly articles to explain the sociological reasoning behind drug use, with theories involving low-income neighborhoods, leading to lessening of family involvement which can lead to drug use. “Drug abuse affects a community 's living conditions and economy, its youth, and the environment for crime.” (Watts)

Unlike others, my high school days were filled with homework and going to the mall with friends. It was not until I entered college did I “experiment” with illicit drugs. I began smoking marijuana with my roommate and a couple of “cool kids” I met in my dorm. Thinking back, I believe that I started to smoke marijuana only to build a relationship and “fit in” with these people who years later names I can’t even remember. At that time smoking marijuana was “cool” an escape, adjust to being away from home for the first time, a different experience.

Many people believe the misconception that an addiction is a moral problem and not a disease. To better understand the reasons why an additicition is in fact a disease; I will identify several types of addictions, and the problems associated with them. I will examine reasons why certain people are more susceptible for developing an addiction. Also, I will determine why many addicts deny their problems and many recovery methods addicts use to fight their illness. Researching these issues, will help aid my claim that addiction is a disease.

Teenage marijuana use is at an all time high, it has been found that today’s teen marijuana smokers are doing so at extreme amounts, some even do so daily. What are the factors that cause them to start experimenting and smoking marijuana? The amounts of marijuana being smoked by today’s teenagers must have an effect on the developing teens. The minds and bodies of the teens who smoke must be facing some sort of developing issues. Marijuana is a mild drug compared to harsher drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. the users of marijuana will eventually look for a stronger and long lasting high so they will turn to these harsher and more addicting substances. The decisions that today’s teens are making to smoke marijuana might have a

Addiction- a primary, chronic, neurobiologic disease, with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. It is characterized by behaviors that include one or more of the following: impaired control over drug use, compulsive use, continued use despite harm, and craving. The difference between addiction and abuse is often times unclear. It’s a difficult call to make as a family member or a close friend that is dealing with a person like this in their life, but ultimately it is a call that only the addict can make for themselves. There are tons of different sources and tests and questions out there that can be done that can

Drug use is an increasing problem among teenagers in today's high schools. Most drug use begins in the teenage years, these years are the most crucial in the maturing process. During these years adolescents are faced with the difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority figures and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily available, adolescents are curious and venerable, and there is peer pressure to experiment, and there is a temptation to escape from conflicts. The use of drugs by teenagers is the result of a combination of factors such as peer pressure, curiosity, and

On drugabuse.gov (2015), they show that “In 2014, 21.2 percent of high school seniors had used marijuana in the past 30 days, whereas only 13.6 percent had smoked cigarettes” (para. 9). That statistic alone should make someone think about the problems that youth face. It is easy to say that certain kids are troublemakers. Without the proper attention, motivation and guidance that can be true for some kids, but for the most part it is preventable. Simply put, when youth are busy doing extra activities such as sports they do not have time for the bad activities. Logan (2015) stated “teens, who during times of hormonal changes and challenging social relationships can benefit from the stability of having constant teammates, a trustworthy coach and a focus on something outside of themselves”. By surrounding the youth with good positive friends and role models, they are set up for success. Action and responsibility is necessary when the discussion is about tomorrows

Substance abuse and addiction have become a social problem that afflicts millions of individuals and disrupts the lives of their families and friends. Just one example reveals the extent of the problem: in the United States each year, more women and men die of smoking related lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined (Kola & Kruszynski, 2010). In addition to the personal impact of so much illness and early death, there are dire social costs: huge expenses for medical and social services; millions of hours lost in the workplace; elevated rates of crime associated with illicit drugs; and scores of children who are damaged by their parents’ substance abuse behavior (Lee, 2010). This paper will look at

It has been discovered that most people who struggle with drug addiction began experimenting with drugs in their teens. Teenage drug abuse is one of the largest problems in society today and the problem grows and larger every year. Drugs are a pervasive force in our culture today. To expect kids not to be influenced by the culture of their time is as unrealistic as believing in the tooth fairy (Bauman 140). Teens may feel pressured by their friends to try drugs, they may have easy access to drugs, they may use drugs to rebel against their family or society, or they may take an illegal drug because they are curious about it or the pleasure that it gives them.