Causes of Drug Addiction ----英赛特名师 刘珊珊

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When we take drugs, either for medical purposes or recreation, there is a benefit or reward that we are trying to achieve.
For example pain medication is intended to bring relief to an injured or stressed area of our body. The beginning stages of addiction is to crave more and to use more. The unintended consequences of that is our need to take more and more of the drug to get the same result.

What Are The Factors?

Inherited
We are all a product of our parents. If your parents have addiction struggles, chances are you are more susceptible to addiction. That’s why drug addiction is more common in some families than in others. If your parents smoke, chances are good you will smoke. If your parents used alcohol, you’ll probably follow and use that drug in much the same way. If your father was an alcoholic, you have a predisposition to addiction that drug.
Causes of Drug Addiction one generation passes it on to the next.

Certain Personality Types
Aside from the inherited factors, some people have a personality that is more likely to become drug dependent.
- People are curious, so that alone can lead a person to try a drug. We experiment and see what happens.
- We are looking to relax and have pleasure.
- We all want to feel good, and we’re by nature impatient. Drugs give us an instant gratification that other things do not, so for that moment or hour of for whatever time frame, we feel good.
- We want what we want.
- Someone diagnosed with depression, attention deficit disorder, or hyperactivity.
- Maybe there has been some stress, or anxiety in their life. Whatever the case, these are contributing factors.
Even some common personality characteristics, such as aggression, may be a factor. Children who do not have confidence, healthy self-esteem may be prone to turning to drugs to fill the void.

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