A Disease Created By Drugs

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DRUGS & THE DISEASE IT CREATED

Something that I would like to begin discussing, is whether or not addiction should be classified as a disease, they are different and should be classified as such. To understand addiction, the realization of how it can manipulate or entrap anyone is an awareness that most people easily overlook, but hopefully with anytime support this will change. A user who is trapped by drug use, or even a feeble family member that is enabling by supporting with their heart instead of their mind! We are all somehow touched by this issue, and regardless if you are an addict or not, the reason we are all affected by addiction is because of the pedestal that we have created for it. Addiction is a term used for everything ranging from heroin users, all the way down to sugar and including such things that you don't even put in your bodies such as gambling or even something like Candy Crush! I guarantee it would be almost impossible to find someone without the experience of addiction within their life; a story about some sort of addiction, in which they have faced themselves or by watching loved ones suffer through it.

Addiction is presented and viewed as something to fear as if it were a disease; though; let’s be honest and just call it a bad decision that overcomes the decision maker! In my opinion, addiction needs to be split up and categorized by using something most of us are very familiar with as we have annually prepared for them within our careers ; Audits are very thorough investigations of policies to make sure a wide variety of different types of companies are abiding by their procedures in order to provide the customer with a quality product and not mislead through advertising.

Addiction is not a disease, is it? Addiction is an addiction, yet the heroin epidemic has thrown the term addiction around as if its explanation should be medical based. Imagine if you were to ask someone who is in recovery from cancer, “how long were you on cancer”? According to what we teach about the disease and what it is defined as; calling it a disease is incorrect and I feel addressing it in my blog is necessary because the knowledge to have correct information is the right we have. If it is a disease, then we need some revision changes implemented within our own vocabulary and some assistance in educating our educators. This type of a strong connection is created when an individual does or tries something then unfortunately, end up loving which consumes their life because of how powerful the craving is. The feeling that they need it, comes from the ability within our own Serial killers that were diagnosed using the phrase “addiction of killing” or even sex offenders using “sex addiction”, and the reasoning of addiction is based upon their sick and twisted ways. Well, Unfortunately, I disagree once again because most of my family that has had or are going through the struggle to overcome this evil; are not evil but instead are embracing change in order to fix problems they want to overcome. There is no comparison to the problems that they face to someone who has cancer, and most certainly would be offended if compared to a murderer or a sex offender! Addiction has a broad range of topics that all derive from the negative outcomes that are associated from it, such as the use of alcohol or drugs yet Unfortunately, until we can tear it apart and classify each type of addiction this is probably a good reason as to why there is no cure, though there are cases when new prescriptions for more drugs are used to help ease the urge, which affects your true self from decision making. Cancer still has no cure and there are so many tragedies their families go through because of this disease, yet calling addiction a disease, in reality, is any type of mental state, And in most cases the user is predictable whereas if you take a murderer or a sex offender they are unpredictable because they're dealing withmore than just a mental state, they are dealing with complete trauma or evil within themselves.

. Many of the individuals throughout our country who were prescribed narcotics, including members of my own family; were suddenly cut off from their prescriptions around 2009. This occurrence led most of the abandoned patients to scowl the streets to purchase illegal drugs. The bad decisions developed from the lack of the required medicine that their bodies demanded and now from being chemically unbalanced, suffering from withdrawal became more serious than even from the original reason as to why they were getting the prescribed narcotics. The epidemic that we are currently experiencing has created too much pain and loss. Heroin, unfortunately, is now the number one killer in everyone who dies under the age of 50!

Revolving Door

Recovering from an addiction can be the most difficult problem a person can go through in an entire lifetime. The fear of recovering isn’t necessarily because of becoming sober, yet from the pain they fear from not having that drug, which started off as prescription pain medications and is what the cause of their addiction derived from. When these individuals were suddenly removed from their prescription medications; without any notice of a transitional period; were forced to the streets to buy drugs. Then they were immediately judged because they now have drug problems, which was only to avoid going through the struggle of withdraw. Throughout history; a medical plague of some sort has always made its mark on the population, where many people were affected by the sickness and now that we are more technologically advanced and are more medically compatible thanks to modernized society, we no longer need to worry or be afraid of the dangers of those plagues such as, smallpox or even a simple infection. There have been conspiracies within the last 100 years such as aids epidemic and now the disease of “addiction”.

In the times of smallpox and polio, there were no medications to relieve the symptoms; So, people in great amounts of the population died. If you look at the population today in comparison to the days of polio and leprosy there has been a great increase of medications, which now, are available everywhere! This is one of the reasons why you do not see diseases such as polio or smallpox because we have developed cures for them. So, to compare today's epidemic to the plague of their time; it's completely opposite! Today, we have too many deaths caused by drugs and in those days too many deaths because of the lack of medicine yet to be invented. We did not have enough drugs and the diseases killed many people, and now we have too many drugs that are creating diseases!

Thanks for Reading,

Dale D.