There are several reasons why I am writing this paper starting from when I was five years old to now. When I was five my mother divorced my father for his alcoholism and drug addiction, from that point on addiction has been a very significant part of my life. My father spent most of my childhood either in jails or in drugs. At that time I did not understand anything at all about what was happening to my father. Since then he has been clean from drugs and alcohol for five years but he went through hell to get there.
Throughout my teenage years and up to now I have been friends with people that became drug addicts. I have been close to three people that have overdosed and died from heroin. Some of these people have been in recovery from addiction and some are still wasting there lives away with drugs. When these friends of mine are clean they are generally the person they were before they started using. It amazes me how a drug can make someone a completely different person.
After all these years I really think it is necessary for me to find out more about this subject. If I can understand drug addiction even just a little more than I alread
I believe through friends and family I have learned a little about the nature of addiction. The role it plays in families and friends of the addicted and the role in that person. I have come in contact with many individuals who have either been addicted or are close to someone who is. I have seen addiction rip peoples lives up. I have known a couple of people that were really into drugs and have come out of that and have become productive members of society. So I know that people can get better.
“Very simply, an addict is a man or women whose life is controlled by drugs.”(Narcotics, 3) When I went to the methadone clinic it was peak hours for the methadone patients and I looked at all of them and they didn’t look like they were bums or scary looking they looked like everyday people. So it is easy for me to say that drugs can affect anyone.
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