Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction
Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs it is often mistakenly assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles or willpower and that they could stop using drugs simply by choosing to charge their behavior in reality drug addiction is a complex disease and quitting takes more than good intentions or a strong will in fact because drugs change the brain in ways that foster compulsive drug abuse quitting is difficult even for those who are ready to do so.
Through scientific advances we know more about how drugs work in the brain then ever and we also know that drug addiction can be successfully treated to help people stop abusing drugs and lead productive lives.
Drug Abuse and addiction have negative consequence for individuals and for society estimates of the total overall costs of substance abuse in the united states including productivity and health- and crime-related costs exceed $600 billions annually this includes approximately $193 billions for illicit drugs $193 billions for tobacco and $235 billion for alcohol as staggering as these numbers are they do not fully describe the breadth of destructive public health and safety implication of dug abuse and addiction such as family disintegration loss of employment failure in school domestic violence and child abuse.
Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs it is often mistakenly assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles or willpower and that they could stop using drugs simply by choosing to charge their behavior in reality drug addiction is a complex disease and quitting takes more than good intentions or a strong will in fact because drugs change the brain in ways that foster compulsive drug abuse quitting is difficult even for those who are ready to do so.
Through scientific advances we know more about how drugs work in the brain then ever and we also know that drug addiction can be successfully treated to help people stop abusing drugs and lead productive lives.
Drug Abuse and addiction have negative consequence for individuals and for society estimates of the total overall costs of substance abuse in the united states including productivity and health- and crime-related costs exceed $600 billions annually this includes approximately $193 billions for illicit drugs $193 billions for tobacco and $235 billion for alcohol as staggering as these numbers are they do not fully describe the breadth of destructive public health and safety implication of dug abuse and addiction such as family disintegration loss of employment failure in school domestic violence and child abuse.
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