A Step Towards Creating A Drug Addiction-Free World

Drugs give you a pleasing feeling for a while or 2-3 days, that makes you fly high in the sky with extreme dopamine rise/kick, and at the same time, it is fatal for life. It affects both the brain and body to an extent to live life on substance dependency. Its effect can be both short-term and long-term, and some can even be permanent. A substance/chemical that mixes with your blood and makes you feel like it is a part, leading you to fall apart. It acts as a dominant factor, controlling you in every sense making you feel senseless. It gives pleasure for a while but pain forever. On the urge to get freedom and be independent you get on the verge of boundation and dependence.

Physical effects:

• It affects your immune system making you weak and at the same time, it increases the chance of getting sick and infected easily

• It can lead to stroke, heart attack

• It can lead to lung disease or liver damage

• Allergies on skin

• Hormonal imbalance

Psychological effects:

• It may affect your memory, attention span, and decision-making

• It can lead to seizures

• It can control your mind and your actions

• Mood disorders and psychotic disorders

When injected with a drug, the brain chemical helps to release dopamine and this is what one explains as being high, it helps to regulate emotions and the feeling of pleasure. Thus the brain is flooded with dopamine, making one sub-conscious or completely lost. It is how drugs react in one’s body.

The first step of drug addiction can begin with experimentation, experimenting with drugs to see the effects. People usually state that it takes them to a different world. Unaware of what they actually mean by this but yes, it does leave your body here and takes your mind somewhere. It takes you to an illusionist world that your mind has created.

But you need to return to the existing world, your close ones are waiting for you here, in your small world that you abandon because of the illusion you created giving immense pain to all your loved ones.

What can lead to drug addiction:

It is uncertain as to what actually leads to drug addiction, there is no particular reason for it. But studies have pointed out multiple factors that may lead to drug addiction depending on an individual.

These includes

Psychological influence, biological influence, socio-cultural influence, and spirituality.

• Psychological influence:

People turn to drugs thinking it will kill their pain, turn their stress and anxiety into relief. It will make one feel good or better and will help them to deal with social pressure. This is the concept that is set in their minds about drugs. That is why, despite knowing its harmful effects they turn to drugs for help, thinking it will help them. But instead of it dealing with your problems, it starts dealing with your minds, it starts controlling you, it creates more problems and some problems are so severe that finding their solutions takes a lifetime.

• Biological influence:

It has less influence as it depends on genes and one’s preferences as not everyone can take the effect of drug substances. It depends and differs as to whether a person likes or dislikes it. For a few, they may not like it or their body may not be able to take it so they may dislike it but for some, it may be very tempting which may even lead to experimenting and even to addiction, depending on their experiences.

• Socio-cultural influence:

Another major reason for drug addiction. The environment has a profound influence on us. A kid’s mind is a clean slate and what you write on them is what sets in their minds. If they are surrounded by an environment where drug practices are common and are accepted, it may happen that people growing in that environment may not hesitate to test it or even be addicted to it. One can get influence by people who share similar values and beliefs. A group can even boost one’s confidence to practice such bad habits so an individual should be very careful while choosing their social circle.

And when talked about socio-cultural influence, even the parents and the family members play a role in it. A kid growing up in a disturbing environment has a high chance to practice such things hoping it will help them to cope up with the situation or to escape the current situation. And in the course of escaping from reality, they get lost.

• Spirituality:

Your values and beliefs matter a lot when talking about any addiction. When you feel like your purpose in life is bigger than your own pleasure then maybe indulging in such activities may never strike your mind. It is usually a lack of purpose or meaning in life that distracts you and even disconnects you from yourselves and from others as well thus leading you to try all these activities and the addiction even makes it worse by disconnecting you completely from yourself and your loved ones and you fail to live in peace and harmony. Due to this, it takes you back to where it all started but this time, the situation is worst.

To escape reality one lets drugs consume them, but how long to survive in illusion. Every time you choose to escape reality, you are getting closure to destruction. And now, neither you will be able to escape it nor you will be able to face it. Because you have already made your defense mechanism weak. But it is not too late. We can face it together, we can fight it together and survive this battle, we can defeat our biggest enemy, our biggest fear, we can defeat “DRUG ADDICTION.” Only if you want to, only if you want to save your future and the future of others by helping yourself now.

Don’t you feel like returning back to your loved ones, who are waiting for you with all hope?

Steps to leave behind drugs:

• Accept the truth that drug is not your friend, rather it is an enemy of yours and your friend. This thought may atleast bring you back to reality. It will help you to differentiate between harmful and helpful.

• Believe that you are not an addict and you are quitting drugs. Mind is the most powerful thing, a human mind can do wonders. Prepare yourself psychologically. The addiction to drugs can make you feel like you won’t be able to live without it, it may try to rule your life but remember that drugs will consume you, whether you will be able to live without it or not is subjective but you won’t be able to live with it is a fact so you cannot let it win. You will fight back. You will beat it. You will defeat it. You are getting rid of this addiction.

• When socio-cultural influence can make you a drug addict, surrounded by a healthy environment can even heal you. Surround yourself with people who can heal. Be in a group of a healthy social circle so that even you become one of them.

• Instead of focusing on the imaginary world that you created, let’s create this real world the way you imagine it to be. This way you will get a purpose in life, a meaning in life and you will realize your life has a bigger purpose than you ever imagined. If a missing of purpose can distract you and can take you to all these activities. Finding a purpose, knowing your purpose in life can even distract you from this addiction and can bring you back to the right track.

Living in illusion, I landed up nowhere. It’s time to return back. Time to forgive ourselves and be with ourselves to live and let live.

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