Problems with having a drug addiction
People have long wondered what makes us different from animals. And the only answer that has been brought to everybody's awareness is our intelligence. Unfortunately though, it is also through this intelligence that we suffer, they say. And with the trials and the sufferings that we are faced prods us to evolve more. This dynamic evolutionary process has forever led us to move forward and never backward.
Some people say this is perhaps one of the main reasons why people do drugs. They help us retreat and go back to an animal stage-a stage where we temporarily stop thinking and feeling. Like animals, being intoxicated with drugs make us lose any inhibitions.
But of course, all these are not real. And wrong. Intoxication may keep us feeling numb but for only for some hours. When we get back to our senses we feel all the more in pain and depressed. So for those who still don't get it, the only thing that they think is reasonable enough to do is to take more drugs and get more of that euphoric feeling only to get burned out again after the effect of the drugs wear out. Hence, the addiction occurs.
With the addiction comes a chain of problems. First you start off with a cigarette. In the few minutes of puffing on the cigarette one gets a nice kind of high but it never really lasts. So you reach out for marijuana and see how much longer it could keep you high. Lightheadedness will make you feel nothing can ever go wrong, so you try for the stronger dose of ecstasy and the story never ends.
Several celebrity people have fallen prey to the abuse of drugs. They love the publicity they get after getting high and getting themselves into trouble. Lucky for those who don't get the trip of shooting their brains out in their bathrooms or slashing their wrists off after sentimental suicidal notes have been composed, they are able to go to expensive detox centers and come out only to get hooked to drugs again.
Many families have been broken, relationships gone down the drain, crimes committed and a lot more problems have been created because of one misconception: drugs will get one out of life's misery.
We live because we feel. And problems make us all the more aware that we are alive. Being able to face these problems head on makes us even more intelligent human beings.
