Who Suffer From Addiction Part 1 By Narconon Analysis

This source examines the effect of gateway drugs on the opioid epidemic. Bradley states that parents allowing their children to use marijuana and alcohol otherwise referred to as “soft drugs” at an early age sets them up to struggle with addiction later in life. Addiction is born in the adolescent years with “soft drugs” and then later in life the addiction often turns to“hard drugs”. If you use “soft drugs” regularly in your adolescent years, you have a one and five chance of becoming an addict later in life. According to the article kids today are so caught up in school, sports, and friends that the idea of an escape by using alcohol and drugs is extremely appealing.

Americans today tend to not realize we’re slowly being separated from each other. Whether it be electronics keeping us away from the family at night or just social media that keeps us from going outside and actually socializing. It has become a serious problem and it happens more and more as we continue to advance in technology. Not to mention it's forming another problem in the way we’ve shaped our societies so that it's extremely easy to be cut off from human connections without even realizing it. Johann Hari, The author of “The Likely Cause of Addiction” pulled my attention towards realizing that this addiction is a fast paced growing problem. Hari Specifically states,"We have created human societies where it is easier for people to become cut off from all human connections than ever before." He’s basically stating that it’s become way too easy to be disconnected from our society and its gotten worse over time. Honestly I agree with how he thinks, we don’t realize it but we’re all being slowly cut off from our society. Whether we like it or not we’ve created our society to be the way it is, and it caused us to be so easily disconnected from one another.

Not only can children be put in drug use situations but so can parents. When parents struggle to maintain a stable household or income and employment it may expand stress on the family and its powerlessness, pushing negligible people to discover answers or comfort in illegal drugs. In general, addiction and use of

Most people are parents between those ages, so think about how that could affect their children. If parents are taking the prescription drug the babies can be born with many birth defects and or fail to fulfill their duties as a parent. According to the national institute on drug abuse "a baby suffering from opioid withdrawals is born every 25 minutes and has an average hospital stay of nearly 17 days". Babies affected by opioids are more likely to be low in birth weight, difficulty eating and digesting, respiratory issues, hyperactivity, seizures, fever, lack of sleep, and more due to the severity of the withdrawal. Children that have drug addict parents are likely to end up in foster care due to parent's inability to care for them. Foster care consequences for children are alarming children who have been in foster care are five times more likely to abuse drugs. Children that go through the foster care system often feel abandonment, disrupting their education and severing their relationships with relatives and friends. Children that remain in the home with the parent may feel constant fear and uncertainty. Some children must care for themselves or in some circumstances their siblings and take up the role as care giver to the other children or to the addicted parents. According to the U.S. census data, more than 2.4 million grandparents have taken in there grandchildren because they were not properly cared

One of the problems with children of addicts is that they may bounce in and out of foster care, and not have a truly stable home in between. Addicts have a tendency to relapse, which means that the parents might get clean, go through any court-ordered classes or mandates, get the children home, and start right back up with drugs yet again.

Social and familial effects. While NAS is a heartbreaking and disadvantageous outcome of maternal addiction, it is not the only outcome seen in children. Infants born to dependent mothers who evaded NAS are still at a higher risk of poorer childhood development and lifelong outcomes because of the unhealthy and damaging lifestyle of opioid addiction and familial stress. Through the use of psychiatric and family functioning evaluations, one study found children of opioid dependent mothers or parents showed a significantly higher rate of psychopathologies such as depression and anxiety as compared to those without familial substance abuse and children of alcoholics (Wilens et al., 2002). These children have a much more difficult time growing,

You are absolutely right about the parents effects on their children while using prescription drugs. Children are not dumb, they see, they feel, and understand when something isn't right. They may not understand fully, but they know when mommy/daddy is "sick" again, because they are going through withdrawals or angry/irritable because they are "fiending" for more drugs. If they are old enough to understand than they are cause even more psychological issues with the child that doing drugs is okay, or that their parent chooses drugs over themselves. Just as you said in your post, if the probability of them going into foster care or group homes is a lot higher due to their parents addictions. Which we all know can be a hard life, both difficult

Along with illegal behavior often a substance abuser will find themselves as homeless, spending their paychecks on their habits of using substances (Tracy, 2005). Children of abusers are affected by both possessing negative role models that set the example that drug use is not wrong and sometimes the children are placed into the care of the community because of neglect and abuse by the substance user (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health [CDC], 2009). Other medical, social, and economic issues also are being experienced from substance abuse and use.

Many women, including teens, abuse drugs while they are pregnant. This rate is especially high to those who are homeless, underprivileged, or live in a broken home. In order for drug abusers to even have a chance at beating their addiction they have to have support whether it’s family, friends, or boyfriend/spouse. They must also let the abuser now all the consequences to themselves and the unborn child. There are many consequences when using drugs during pregnancy such as miscarriage, health risks to baby, and health risks to the mother. And learning disabilities and brain damage to the fetus.

Addicted parents spend a significant amount of time searching for drugs or alcohol and must spend time to obtain money to pay for their “fixes” whether by illegal or legal means. They have to have time to recover from hangovers or withdrawal symptoms. This constant cycle of obtaining, using and coming down from drugs leaves little time left over for their children. Social systems are overwhelmed by the number of children which need care from someone other than their addicted parents. Approximately, eighty percent of the children who enter foster care come from homes of addicted parents (Taylor 2011). Their stay in foster care is lengthened by the need for their parents to meet judicial rehabilitation requirements before being returned to their homes. In addition, these children having come from non-supportive and abusive environments require foster parents who are able to cope with issues of behavioral

Addiction is not an individual problem but something that affects the whole family. Stevens and Smith (2013) state that families will “readjust to redistributing responsibilities to accommodate the user” (pp. 247-248). Children learn to adapt to their dysfunctional family, including taking more responsibilities on when their parent cannot because of their addiction. Families need to be included in treatment so that they can learn positive ways to help their family member without enabling them. The Bible states in Ecclesiastes 4:9 “Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed” (New Living Translation). God designed humans to need each other that is why he created Eve as Adam’s helpmate. Having a support system

That is an insanely high number that could be lowered if we are doing our best to pay attention to these children that are crying out for help in one way or another. It doesn’t have to lead people in to a long and dreadful life of drinking and drugging there are steps that can be taken to prevent that and professionals to talk to help people work through that before they reach addiction. In many situations, the issues start early on in the childhood and teenage years and it continues to get worse as they get older. Children who start drinking in their teenage years are much more likely to develop problems with drinking and drugs then those who wait until they are 21. There are plenty of parents that do all they can to stop their kids from doing drugs and try to get them the help that they need to deal with whatever issues they are having and it still doesn’t stop them. While at the same time many parents look the other way and don’t want to believe that their kids are doing it or don’t see it as a big issue. They think they are just kids and this is what kids do and they will grow out of it, and some kids do grow out of it and they move on and they have amazing lives, which is an example of drug abuse. Once the person get in to trouble, or someone gets hurt, or something more important comes up in life they are able to just give it up for good. Addicts can’t give it up that easily. When the person is destroying relationships, losing jobs, and

In the late 1914, people started going into self-detox to get clean. Nurses started admitting to themselves and their bosses that they were not ok and needed help. All around the U.S., people were more open about the problem they faced. With the passage of the Harrison Narcotic act brought physician to help and made it harder for them to get the drugs. From the 1920’s to 1941 there was no faculty to help women. Finally, the Lexington opened to women, but it was 10x harder on them then men. Barbara, stated “by the mid 1960’s, narcotic addiction in the health profession came to be considered a more serious problem than previously suspected” (121). A rehabilitation specifically for Nurses was opened in 1972, only patients taken by this rehab was

Monique, interesting reply addiction in the family can cause both short term and long term harmful affects .You mentioned the harsh affects of substance abuse often have on youngsters; which in my opinion can be very devastating on a child/children. I have seen it recently firsthand. Your post reminds me of a case that was bought before the judge where a young lady had been using a heavy substance for quite some time now and had 3 small children ages 3-1 years of age. Some one had reported how the Mom often left the children home unattended quite often: roaming the neighbor hood, in need of food and unkempt. The case was bought before the judge due reckless behavior. The women was taken away by authorities and her 3 small children given over to child protective services due to neglect, until they could find relatives to take them in for a few months or until the mother agreed to straighten out her life.

Children can be subjected to the negative effects of parental substance use in a variety of different ways. For example, substance use during pregancy can cause detrimental outcomes for newborn infants by placing them at a higher risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), being born with birth defects, developing behavioral and developmental delays, being born premature, etc. Children with addicted parents, are placed at a higher risk of: lacking appropriate supervision; lacking basic needs such as: food, clothing, housing, and medical care; exposure to violence; developing substance abuse issues themselves.