E-Health Magazine Partial 4 May 2014 | Page 4

THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES THAT INDUCE INDIVIDUALS TO CONSUME DRUG “Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.” ― William S. Burroughs Lately it has become more common the consumption of drugs. It is not yet normal but it is common. Individuals consume drugs for many reasons, which none of them seem precise. Humans currently believe it is a solution to escape from their problems, fit in society or even relieve from boredom. It is hard to deal with problems in our lives, but consuming drugs will only not help you, but drugs will make them worse. Consuming drugs, always turns out worse than facing your problems. Recently humans use drugs to avoid crossing with their complications. It is thought that narcotics take away the pain and make you feel better. But what if they do? With only trying it once, it becomes an addiction to the human body. Once the individual becomes an addict, problems get worse it disrupts the function in the brain, creativity and it can even lead to death. The real way to overcome an obstacle is by facing it. Now a day’s population has become a more classified society. This is one of the mayor causes that people start ingesting drugs. Society has become more labeled. Groups of people are now labeled by what you do, how you dress, what school do you go to, if your popular or not, if you do drugs or not. Citizens are taught to believe that if they don’t do drugs they will not be part of the important crowd. Peer pressure has become a big part in individuals especially in adolescents. Peer pressure is what it sounds pressuring your peers to do something they probably wont feel comfortable doing. Peer pressure is what mainly causes humankind to start the use of drugs. Boredom is something everyone goes through, but drugs are not the answer. Humankind believes drugs will take away the boredom. But even if so, boredom is something that come and goes. In the other hand drugs stay with you forever, there is no way back. Now a days there are many things individuals can do in there free time such as, going out with friends, going to a movie, doing exercise, spending time with family and much more. But as years went by, mankind realized nobody did those things in there free time. Now society believes that drugs are “fun” and exchanged healthy and fun activities to consume drugs. Drugs are not only bad for your health but are not even fun. You can’t think clearly or act clearly. . Drugs are not the solution to fix the wrong in your life, because eventually life will become worse. It is time that humans realize that problems should be faced; society shouldn’t be labeled by who do drugs and who don’t, everybody should be able to fit in. But most importantly culture should know that there are tons of things in life to keep away the boredom other than drugs. Drugs shouldn’t decide how we live our lives. We control our own decisions. It is time to stop thinking that if you try it only once you wont become an addict, you will. 4