Why people start to use drugs?

Personally, from the childhood, after I watched one movie about drug users, I have strong fear of becoming dependent on the drug and to die, so I never even looked to drugs side. Maybe only the cigarettes in my mind are more liberal, as I smoked a short time. But already many years I tried to live also without this habit. And I have always been difficult to understand how and why people all head plunge into drugs and damage their lives?

I got to read one study’s data. It turns out that no one factor determines why a person starts using drugs.

The most common reasons why drugs are put into use:

In order to have pleasant feelings. Many used drugs cause strong feelings of pleasure. Initially manifested euphoria later is accompanied by other sensations, which are dependent on a certain type of drug. Drug intoxication quickly becomes the norm, and people no longer feel previous pleasant sensation, their drug dosage every time to be increasing, and it is becoming increasingly vulnerable to their brain activity.

For the improvement of well-being. Some people suffering from social concerns, stress-related disorders and depression, start using drugs, thinking that it will reduce the unpleasant feelings of distress and anxiety. Stress can have a significant impact on start of drug use  and abuse, as well for convalescents from dependence relapse.

For the capacity increase. The desire to increase or improve physical or mental abilities may be the  initial reason of  the experimentation and continued drug abuse. But the reality in fact is different – for example,  given a burst of energy from amphetamine changes to depression, frustration, fatigue, apathy.

Out of curiosity, and because it use others. In this regard, due to the strong influence of peers, adolescents are particularly vulnerable. They are more likely to engage in an exciting and risky behavior.

At the beginning of the drug use, at first may seem that drug effect is positive. The man believes that later will be able to control the use of drugs. However, psychoactive substances can quickly overshadow his life.  Over time, continue to use  drugs, a pleasant effect is reduced and the use of the drug for a person has become necessary for him to feel normal.

Drug users reach the state where they are looking for and taking drugs anywhere and at any cost, regardless of the problems facing them. Drug use becomes a chronic and mental disorder characterized by compulsive drug use, regardless of the harmful consequences.

This is a brain disease because drugs change its structure and activity. There is evidence that just a one use causes irreversible brain changes.
The science about drug addiction increasingly present brain research and so change understanding wide spreaded in society, that this dependence is only human weakness and moral decline, rather than a health problem.

Drugs, unlike the natural sources producing the pleasure,disturbs and distorts the natural processes occurring in the brain, and the man becomes addicted to their use.

Addictive disease had to be treated and the treatment can last for the rest of their lives.

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