Addiction

Addiction is compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol). Someone who is addicted or hooked psychologically believes that they cannot function without this substance in their bodies. Drug and alcohol addiction and tear families apart, they change individuals who once were the best people to be around with. Most addictions start at an individuals adolescence age where they just learning who they are and how to fit it.

Drug addiction can and most of the time leads the individual to stealing from friends and even family. These individual do what ever is in the power to get a hold of their preferred drug. They are capable of hurting those who love them and the ones they love.

There are many warning signs to addictions which, include the list of the following:

· Tolerance. If a person needs increasing amounts of a drug to feel high then they are developing tolerance.

· Preoccupation with the drug. A preoccupied person thinks constantly about a drug

· Personality changes. Individuals withdraw from their friends and their family.

· Solitary use. Individuals often begin using the drug as a social thing but then once they begin to use it alone they can be losing control.

· Using drugs as medicine. People often use drugs to take the edge off stressful situation or unpleasant feelings. They may rationalize their use and make it see normal

· Continued use despises negative consequences. Drug dependence compels people to use in spite of problem or loss of friends.

Some individuals do not become addicted as others do but no one knows why only that it has to do wit individual’s biology.