Could You Help Me to My Research Paper All About Drug Addiction?

Hmm I guess I cant be of any help.. none of those issues you mention really had anything to do with it in my case.. I just liked the drugs.. Sorry..

I have been in recovery for a year and in my experience with the people I was fortunate to get to know, both in meetings and therapy and the friends and family of others like me, I would say it’s 50-50.

50% Environmental, because I’d say most addicts, alcoholics, overeaters, sex addicts, and all of the others had some sort of severe childhood trama. Be it sexual abuse, physical abuse, abandonment, even schoolyard ridicule like being bullied or otherwise tormented by classmates or neighbors has a crippling affect on ones sense of self, boundries and becomes an ego turned inside out. We hate how we feel in our own skin so we seek comfort in that next hit or drink or whatever takes the hurt and the fear away so we can be better. At first, that is. We don’t want to work through the pain of growing up emotionally so instead, we will spend our lives trying to be this better version of who we think we are, or think we should be. It gats harder as the addiction gets worse and the effects of our disease begin to take hold. Such work it was for me to just get up and shower and dress to go to the grocery store. No one would want to spend a minute in the tweaker hell I created for myself, much less years or a lifetime.

The other 50% I believe is hereditary. Chemicals in our brains and the way that they function has got to be a product of the genes in your family. My father is an alcoholic. His father was an alcoholic. I am an addict/alcoholic/bi-polar with a borderline personality disorder to boot. I was depressed before I started using meth, but now you can see I have altered my brain severly and permanently so I have graduated to all of my current “isms”.

There is also the truth about alcoholics having a physical allergy to alcohol. Normal people produce some sort of ensyme in their liver that counters the alcohol, thereby not letting it hit your system without somewhat metabolizing it first. Alcoholics lack this digestive ensyme and the alcohol enters that persons’ body full force. The effects are more intense, as it hits the brain and knocks out all of the natural chemicals that usually deliver pleasure and causes the parts of the brain that produce these chemicals to take a vacation. That’s why an alcoholic will begin to have blackouts very early in his drinking career and also why we build up a tollerance. Now we are no longer the cheap date that we used to be, we buy dope by the oz. now, not the gram, and the bottle has a handle on it so when you fall you can still hang onto your booze.
Normal, or social drinkers don’t drink because of something, they don’t drink at something, and some of us get to know that normal people dont drink and use until there is no one to drink at or to or with and it’s only that desparation and lonliness that causes us to make a decision to live or die. Hitting bottom, in other words. Once bottom is acheived, the only way out is a spiritual solution. Not god, the devil or religion. That is a big misconception that I think keeps people from really giving themselves to a solution that works. If you believe in something, anything, grab ahold of that for spiritual guidance, reliance. It may sound rediculous to the athiest, but does the athiest have any children? Find your serenity in the miracle that is in their eyes and their hopes and dreams of when they get to be like you. Is that not real? Some people believe in Karma, good over evil and the golden rule. We all have values and morals or standards that we live by, they’re different, but I believe that most people a genuinely good and will reach out to help others if they were given the opportunity to do so. I believe that most of the evils that go on in this world are products of some sort of addiction. There are mind altering chemicals out there that will have you steal from your mother, use your friends and sell your soul just to have another taste for another day, until tomorrow, then it’s on to armed robbery, kidnapping, assault, murder.

So to the agnostic, the athiest, I say – If it will save your life, like it has saved many others will you believe in a beautiful rewarding life that keeps getting better and you finally get to become who you are supposed to be? Or do you twart this need for a belief and continue down a very logical path that leads to crazy or locked up or dead? Not saying that therapy and medication wont help. It will. The doctor gave me the explanation. The 12 steps gave me the ability to understand it. Overcome it, every day. I learn more about who I am and who I was, sometimes things seem really overwhelming. Now, after going through the problems and having the experience of things working out ok or even good, I know I can handle it. Sorry for the soap box. I get carried away, cause it means so much to me. It saved my life. I am greatful.
That’s my experience. I hope it helped.