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The purpose of this study is to have a brief and thorough knowledge and awareness of how a drugs work physiologically and how it affects the life of the person being addicted to drugs. There are a lot of factors as to why a person can be addicted to drugs. This study focuses on the social learning theory why a person can be addicted to drugs. Social learning theory tells us what a child sees a baby can do. Furthermore this study focuses on how a person contracts Hepatitis C virus through the use of syringe in doing drugs. Drug addiction in the world is still prevalent and the main factor why hepatitis C spreads is through the use of syringe used by drug addicts. Hepatitis c causes the inflammation of the liver which can lead to liver …show more content…

Which makes him in his middle adulthood stage. He has a fair complexion, 5’7 in height tall, long-haired with facial hair, weighs about 60 kilograms. The participant is a retired businessman. He is separated from wife since 2006 which lead to only seeing his 5 children occasionally. He is currently living alone in Puerto Galera.

He started using drugs when he was 7 years old and by the time he reached his teenage years he started drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes while still smoking cannabis. Then soon started using amphetamines. Even though he was addicted to drugs at a young age he was still performing very well at school he even finished his bachelor’s degree in nursing. After being addicted to amphetamines he started using all kinds of drugs such as Hallucinogenic, Opiates like sedatives and tranquilizers. He stopped taking drugs for a while because of the birth of his first child. But soon relapsed and used different kinds of drugs at the same time. He was then sent to rehab for six months and got out. After that he still relapsed and was in and out of the rehab for years. That was the time when he started sharing syringe with people who are also addicts. That was when he contracted hepatitis C virus. After forty-five years of drug addiction he stopped last January but soon felt symptoms of hepatitis c such as sore muscles itchy skin, and dark urine and got tested positive for hepatitis

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