Drug Addiction In Young Adults

After the first few weeks of being addicted, the original dosage no longer helps. The desire for a stronger pill or more medication causes patients to crush their pills and snort it. This allows for the oxycodone to enter the bodies system rapidly. Ultimately, snorting the crushed pills result in overdose, which creates the high feeling for the user. After snorting the crushed oxycodone, the next step the users in the study took was injecting the crushed pills into their bodies.

The drug user continues to use substances and the compulsive behavior despite the harmful consequences, and tries to systematically avoid responsibility and reality, while he or she tends to isolate himself/herself from others because of guilt and pain (Angres, & Bettinardi-Angres, 2008). All these characteristics led to the conclusion that drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use. It is considered as a brain disease because drugs change the structure of the brain, and how it works. Every drug affects different systems of the brain. For example, in the case of cocaine, as the brain is adapted in the presence of the specific drug, brain regions responsible for judgment, decision-making, learning, and memory begin to physically change, making certain behaviors “hard-wired.” In some brain regions, connections between neurons are pruned back.

On a Friday afternoon, I had decided to party with some friends, which of course involved alcohol and narcotics. Me thinking that I was invincible, went a little too far with it. I had taken so much that I had blacked out and awoke in jail Sunday morning. I had broken bits of memory of what was involved that weekend. My mother had bailed me out but she was the one I was angry with.

First of all Johnny Cade was frightened, he was frightened of coming home to his parents, he was frightened because the soc’s beat him up really badly, and he was frightened that he was going to die. The article states on page 30, “Johnny was jumpier than ever”. This shows us that Johnny was spooked and it made everything around him think, was bad. The article claims on page 5,“Johnny was scared of his own shadow.”. This shows that Johnny has been through a lot to make him scared of his own shadow.

It wasn 't long after trying my first cigarette when I decided I was ready to try marijuana. Once I started, I could not stop, it came to the point where I could not even go to school without taking a couple hits from a bong or a joint. After a while, I wanted to feel even higher so I moved on to LCD tablet, Xanax and even mixed the drugs together. I would spend up to hundreds of dollars a week on a numerous amount of drugs. The hard part was playing it off at home and not get too suspicious, so my parents wouldn 't know.

Narendra Nagareddy 's bond has been posted at $100,000. He continues to argue for his innocence. As of right now, Nagareddy faces one felony drug charge for illegally prescribing pain medication, but investigators of criminal law say that he will likely face more charges. In the raid of his home, they took thousands of records that could take several months to sift through.

But too much of Percocet dependency leads to addiction of it. Percocet, like every other opiate pain medicines, is highly addictive. This is one of the reason why this drug is widely abused. Percocet is commonly prescribed to help cancer patients. This drug is manufactured such that oxycodone is released slowly into the system.

Despite these short term effects, the main reason why people take meth is for the euphoria that comes from the flood of dopamine in the brain. However, although meth makes the user feel good temporarily, the euphoric "high" from the drug starts and fades quickly, leading the user to use meth several times in a row. Once addiction sets in, the true consequences of using meth begin to show itself.

Another solution suggested is to look at mental health issues and "ensure accessible, high quality, culturally competent and widely accessed mental health treatment in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act" ("Gun Violence"). An additional solution proposed is everyone in America becomes educated on gun safety. This is founded on the fact that children are able to get a hold of guns and accidentally fire them. Many people have died at the hands of toddlers. In fact, "'during the first six months of this year, minors died from accidental shootings — at their own hands, or at the hands of other children or adults — at a pace of one every other day, far more than limited federal statistics indicate'" (Holley 2).

Many reports have been issued based on the evidence regarding the devastating health affecs of smoking and the expose of second hand smoke. Unfortunatly, cigarette smoking has reportedly caused about 480,000 deaths anually in the United States with an account of 41,000 deaths due to second hand smoking. It is indicated that America has the greatest heath issues from smoking. Neverless, it has been declining due to the rise on taxes and the promotions to cut down tabacco use advetisement. Smoking can be very addictive but there are many ways to help stop that I’ll get to soon.