No matter if you’re dealing with cocaine addiction or alcohol addiction or methamphetamine addiction or heroin addiction, drug addiction follows an all too familiar pattern. Which is good news. For the cycle can be spotted and broken before the problem you have with drugs or the problem someone else has with drugs becomes intractable.
The cycle that drug addiction follows is as follows:
- An individual attempts to escape physical or emotional pain with the use of drugs. This could be a physical or emotional pain, including peer pressure, pain from shyness or a lack of good social skills or peer pressure.
- The individual discovers that drugs offer at least short term relief, and for that reason he continues to take the drugs.
- As the drug abuse continues, his body becomes less able to produce the key chemicals he needs to function properly, because the drugs act in the stead of natural biochemicals. In essence, his body is substituting drugs for natural biological chemicals.
- This leads the body to become ever more dependent on drugs to supply the chemicals it needs to function. In response, the body begins to crave drugs. The cravings can become so extreme that an addict will flout his upbringing, ignore every sense of decency and commit unconscionable acts to feed his habit. Young women and young men will sell their bodies for drugs or steal to support their drug habits.
- Now addicted to drugs, an addict will further degrade himself by lying, cheating, stealing or doing whatever else is expedient to acquire the drugs he needs to satiate his cravings and feed his ever worsening addiction.
- The addict will change into an entirely different individual, selfish and driven only for self satisfaction. While from time to time he may swear off drugs, in fact, he commonly relapses into the same destructive drug abuse and degraded behavior trapped now in an endless cycle of misery. Even if he wanted to, and he doesn’t though he may claim to, an addict cannot quit on his own. He needs help from a Georgia drug rehab program that works.
If you know someone who has fallen prey to drug addiction, call Georgia Alliance, a free Georgia drug rehab referral locator. An experienced, caring drug rehab referral specialist will find you an effective drug rehab in Georgia program for you or a loved one. It’s never too late to do something about a condition even if it seems hopeless. Call 1 (877) 315-6907 or fill out the form to the right and you’ll receive a quick response from a caring professional who can guide you to make the right decision and to the right drug rehab program.
