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    Drug Addiction And Drug Abuse

    People use drugs for a variety of factors - mostly, though, to numb the pain of every day life so they don't have to face it. Eventually drug use turns to drug abuse and finally to drug addiction. Most people use the two terms interchangeably, but the truth is there is a difference between drug abuse and drug addiction.

    Drug abuse is the use of illegal drugs or the improper use of legal drugs. People who abuse drugs are using them to get a clear cut feeling - a "high" - that they can't obtain from other substances. Often drug abuse is recreational with the drugs being used to loosen a person up and make them feel like they fit in with the crowd.

    Drug addiction, on the other hand, is the uncontrollable use of drugs and the inability to stop using drugs in spite of health or social consequences. People with a drug addiction are physically and emotionally not able to stop using drugs. Their bodies have become used to having the drug in the system, and stopping the drug use brings about often painful physical and psychological symptoms.

    Drug addiction does commence with drug abuse when an individual makes a conscious choice to use drugs, but addiction is not just "a lot of drug use." Recent scientific research provides overwhelming proof that not only do drugs obtain in the way of with common brain functioning creating powerful feelings of pleasure, but they also have long-term effects on brain metabolism and activity.

    At some point, modifications occur in the brain that can turn drug abuse into addiction, a chronic, relapsing illness. Those addicted to drugs suffer from a compulsive drug craving and usage and cannot quit by themselves. Treatment is important to end this compulsive behavior.

    Many people view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem. Parents, teens, older adults, and other members of the community tend to characterize people who take drugs as morally frail or as having criminal tendencies. They believe that drug abusers and addicts should be able to stop taking drugs if they are willing to alteration their behavior. This just isn't true.

    People from all walks of life abuse drugs and become addicted. We can beginning combating these troubles if we educate ourselves and each other about drug abuse and drug addiction. It is an ever-growing epidemic that doesn't have to take hold of people or society. Drug abuse and drug addiction can be stopped, but only if we beginning with education.

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