Effects Of Drug Use

Brooke McCoy

Ohio Christian

Human Services

10-28-15

I suffer from a disease called addiction, must people consider this to be a choice but I see it as something that I will never be able to get rid of. I have 4 years clean from all substances but I will everyday continue to fight this disease off, like cancer I have medicines that help me. Except my medicine consists of meeting, a support group, and God whom I choose to call me higher power.

 Statistics read that drug abuse and addiction have negative consequences for individuals and for society. Estimates of the total overall costs of substance abuse in the United States, including productivity and health- and crime-related costs, exceed $600 billion annually. This includes approximately $193 billion for illicit drugs,¹ $193 billion for tobacco,² and $235 billion for alcohol.³ As staggering as these numbers are, they do not fully describe the breadth of destructive public health and safety implications of drug abuse and addiction, such as family disintegration, loss of employment, failure in school, domestic violence, and child abuse.

I believe all this to be true because I suffered many consequences from my addiction I lost family friends and myself. Drug addiction is something I would never wish upon anyone it took my life and made me someone I was never suppose to be.