Essays: Drug addiction 32 Articles

by Stephanie Costello

Statistics on drug addiction, or perceived addiction in this country are grim. Few seek help for this disease for a variety of reasons including, not being ready to stop using, cost or insurance barriers and social stigma-...read more

by KCS

Consider the pattern of behavior of a drug addict. The drug most widely recognized as causing complete and utter addiction is probably heroin, so consider a heroin addict. Heroin addiction is characterized by a compul...read more

by Cindy Golchuk

Daughter of the Night In a moment everything changed. Literally. It came by the way of a knock on the door, on a warm Wednesday afternoon. One swift thump, hard against the grain of the wood, one rap, lighter, and then ...read more

by L Dawn Wolter

Once I thought I could measure myself in years spent married to a man I knew. He was my second husband. We were older when we met. I had learned a great deal about my values and own convictions from the shredding of my lif...read more

by Vicki Helgeland

The characteristics of a true addict are hard to define. I don't believe that everyone that has used drugs is an addict. We live in a society that allows for mental alteration, in moderation. If we did not allow th...read more

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by Lori Lane.

Drug addiction comes in many forms, from ones prescriptions to an unhealthy habit of another. Since the dawn of time, drugs were widely used to comfort and ease or to speed up a recovery process. Drugs are not cures alth...read more

by Courtney Estep

Nausea, insomnia, and depression just a few symptoms of withdrawal from oxycontin, a well-known abused drug. Just like oxycontin they are many other drug's getting abused in the world today, some worse than others. So many...read more

by Zach Something

This is not a unique experience, you've heard about it before. You'll not learn a lesson here. You'll not be preached to, not be proselytized to do or not to do. This is a story of my brain, bare bones and tissue and stil...read more

by Erik Peake

My friend Danny described it as a state of "optionlessness." Danny was not afraid to create a word when he found conventional vocabulary insufficient; what he lacked in stature, he compensated for with his mouth. OPTION-L...read more

by Alan Sullivan

Blatchford, Diamond, Westbrook, and McNally (2006) study shows a diminished socialization as an affect of opiate use as well as stress being observed as a behavioral correlate to opiate use. Their study was conducted throu...read more

by Dl Bach

Drugs: A Deadly Weapon "Just say, no! Just say, no! Just say, no!" This is a chant that can be heard in junior and senior high schools all across the country. What are these people saying NO' to? Drugs! Drugs in v...read more

by Dianna Allen

Addiction is a progressive and fatal disease. It is a disease that affects people in all areas of life - regardless of gender, age, ethnic or cultural background, and socio-economic level. It is a disease that tells the...read more

by Donna Dick

Messages for Mothers of Children on Drugs I am one of those mothers, also a grandmother. When my 16 year old really started dating I showed as much love as a mother could. I also went to far into her private spa...read more

by Keith Young

Drug addiction is a hard toppic for me to talk about because ive never been addicted to drugs,but i have seen the way that drugs has affected alot of my family. two of my uncles are addicted to mainley meth but they will d...read more

by Alexandra Grose - Children's Activities Steward

Drug addiction is an amazing illness. Amazing because it's one that is usually started by choice. All the information we have at our fingertips, doesn't deter people from making the choice to use. Yes, occasionally we're s...read more

by Michael Diomangay

Drug addiction is a common term used to imply a psychological and physiological dependence of a person to a potentially hazardous drugs. It is in such a way psychological as this basically affects mind and/or the mental a...read more

by Mandy Kitt

"Like every great religion of the past we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God. These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present tur...read more

by Rebekah Pink-Hayes

I think that a lot of the articles here are very biased. I have used drugs and would like to say to everyone that drugs are not as bad as they are perceived to be. The exceptions to this are heroin, crack cocaine and cryst...read more

by Michael Allen Carvell

To really understand drug addiction you must understand that drug addiction starts with some inner problem a person is trying to escape from in life. Drug addictions are caused by trying to face or even worse avoid the pai...read more

by Myrna Writewood

Drug addictions is pretty scary, especially when someone is high on drugs, whether it be soft drug or hard drugs. When we are younger, at one time in our life we all want to experiment, to try, to do it, to go along wi...read more