Do You Have a Drug Additciton? What Caused It? How as It Effected You or You Faimlies? ?

Question by Stephanie: Do you have a drug additciton? What caused it? How as it effected you or you faimlies? ?
I’m doing a cause and effect essay on drug addiction and need further information. Also I have to Research and analyze or look for facts. It would help me greatly if I could get some real life experiences explained to me. If you can tell me any personal experiences you have had, it would be very helpful. The main questions I need to use are the ones listed above, anything else you may say would be wonderful also. Please and thanks

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Answer by mariposa
I don’t personally have a drug addiction but my boyfriend is an alcoholic and is addicted to weed. Because of it he has no motivation, was unemployed for months, his parents kicked him out (he’d be living on the street if I didn’t take him in) and didn’t find a job til now. He has a DUI and an MIP on his record now, those will never go away since he is 20. He had a possesion of marijuana but his record was sealed when he was 18. He has lost all motivation, and a lot of his short term memory too. His family won’t even talk to him because he can’t control himself. He has to drink every night and thinks he has to drive home.. his car has no insurance and he hasn’t paid tax and license. He just got a job.. and he has a DUI fine to pay and no license. If he got pulled over again he’d probably go back to jail and his car would be impounded. He doesn’t seem to learn. He’s been to drug and alcohol treatment, and he quit for the time he was in treatment. He always does. But he never made the decision to quit for good. Thus, he still can’t kick the habits. I’m not sure he wants to.

Answer by bridget
i don’t have an addiction, but my brother and father both passed away due to one. my brother was diagnosed with cancer when he was 14 years old and until he was 24, if he wasn’t doing chemotherapy, he was having another surgery. being that he was constantly having bone transplants and knee replacements, he was on a lot of pain medication and became addicted to it. after he was finished with his surgeries he found it extremely difficult to stop taking the pills. he would go to the hospital yelling that his leg was hurting just so he could get some. we convinced him to go into rehab, but he kept relapsing. the one time he finished a program, he was placed into a sober home and when going for a check up, his doctor gave him pain medication (not realizing that he wasn’t allowed to have narcotics) and he overdosed. my father was in a job related accident and became disabled from it. there were days that he couldn’t walk. he also was given strong pain medication, and to my knowledge was taking them as prescribed, but there were a few nights that he would ask me if he took his medication or not and often would take it multiple times because he didn’t remember. i noticed more recently that he was doing that. he used to hide his pills so no one would steal them (he lived in a house all by himself). he was 55, so i just blew it off and thought that maybe he was aging a little more rapidly than most. when i got my father’s death certificate, it indicated that he had had pain medication, a muscle relaxer and alcohol in his system. even i’m aware that on the bottle it says not to drink alcohol while taking the medication. my brother and my father both became extremely depressed and my brother was actually diagnosed as being bi-polar. personally, i don’t think he was bi-polar and i think my fathers strange behavior like hiding his meds when he lived alone was due to the fact that he was addicted to the medication. i feel that the change in their mental states were due to the addiction. of course i don’t have any proof of it, but that’s my theory

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