It is difficult for others to understand how a person gets trapped into drug addiction. Drug addiction is not a congenital disease present since birth. Domestic rituals and environmental factors are responsible for this. Drug addicts can quit drinking whenever they want. This thinking is totally wrong. In fact, addiction is a disease that can be cured with treatment.

Reasons for Drug addiction

There are many reasons for becoming addicted to drugs –

• Failing in studies
• Disappointment in relationships
• Losing a job,
• Lack of sympathy or love from family
• Being a victim of abuse in childhood and family discord

These are the problems due to which a person gets trapped in addiction.

Identification of drug addiction at initial stages

It is necessary to identify people who are addicted to different types of drugs to save themselves, family, and society from the ill effects. Addiction can be recognized at an early stage by keeping certain points in mind.

• Substance abuse for four or more days a week.
• Increase in the amount of drug use
• Strong desire to take a certain substance
• Physical and mental pain is not taking a certain substance
• Increase in pocket money or loss of valuables from home.
• Behavior change – disinterest in work, absenteeism, disinterest in sports, becoming introvert.
• Disinterested in studies among students, low level of studies, staying open on the same page for a long time while studying at home.
• New friends coming home at fixed times – get excited and aggressive on-demand for more expenses and not getting money.
• Chewing on aromatic substances to hide the smell of alcohol.
• Stuttering in gait, stuttering, or stuttering in speaking.
• Changes in lifestyle, irregularity in sleep, not taking bath, etc., loss of appetite.
• Fresh injection marks or swelling on the body and arms.
• Redness of the eyes
• Burning of the eyes
• Swelling under the eyes
• Pupil of the eye shrinks like the tip of a needle
• Empty injection syringe in the bedroom or bathroom at home
• Thin paper-like aluminum file on top of a cigarette
• Back mark of smoke.
• Frequent accidents while driving.
• The increasing tendency to crime
• Sudden change in temperament, lying, borrowing, stealing, and indulging in anti-social activities.

Keeping the above points in mind, it becomes easy for us to suspect whether a person is becoming a drug addict. This person can be seen by keeping the house under strict guard for at least three days. Diagnosis is confirmed by the presence of physical and mental symptoms resulting from discontinuation of the addiction, or by blood and urine tests.

Addiction is a bad habit and we all know this. Addiction not only harms us but also drags family and close ones into sorrows and troubles.

Know about addiction

Consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, drugs harms the body even in small amounts, but when it becomes an addiction then the situation starts getting out of control. Addiction means that the sufferer remains restless and abnormal due to the absence of the drugs he is addicted to. When he gets that drug, he starts looking normal but in reality, he is very weak and sick from the inside.

Signs of addiction

• Nervousness,
• Restlessness
• Irritability
• Anger,
• Mood swings
• Tension and mental exhaustion
• Difficulty making decisions
• Loss of memory
• Confusion about things
• Sleeplessness
• Severe headache
• Cramps and twitches in the body
• Loss of appetite
• Increased heart rate
• Excessive sweating
• Vomiting without illness

Reason for addiction

• If someone in the family takes drugs, then there is a possibility of addiction in other family members, especially children.
• Parents have an addiction, so children have such genes, which also pull them towards that addiction.
• In an attempt to increase the desire for experimentation and sex, people also go towards drugs. If there is discord in the house, then people may have a habit of taking the help of any intoxicant.
• On special occasions, such as family functions, festivals, some joyous occasions, sometimes people who talk about consuming alcohol can gradually come closer to intoxication.

How can drugs harm you and create a negative impact on your life?

• Discord may start in the family and mutual relations get spoiled. Sometimes drug addiction becomes the reason for divorce.
• First money is spent on drugs and then on treatment. •
• The business and career along with the future goes for a toss
• Due to lack of money, the victim of drugs can also start doing illegal things like stealing.
• Consumption of drugs usually first creates a person’s mood. However, when a person continues to consume harmful and heavy amounts of drugs for a long time, its effect on the person starts decreasing after consuming drugs. This is because drugs tend to depress a person’s nervous system.
• After consuming drugs, the level of dopamine in our brain increases. Increased levels of dopamine can make the experience of consuming drugs more aggravated.
• Due to which the body becomes addicted to the consumption of drugs.