By: Eric Dunbar
Submitted: 2010-09-04 12:39:24 | Word Count: 594
While most hard working citizens are settling in for a quiet evening, many of our neighborhoods are coming alive with action. There is another world out there, a world that is a total opposite of the world most of us are used to; a world where prostitution, rape, murder, mugging, drugs, theft, and violence is a conventional way of life. This is the world of the addict who struggles on a daily basis to supply their addiction.
If we were to embark into the world of a drug addict we would see scenes like these:
At a community hospital a young teen-aged girl in labor sits in an emergency waiting room. She cries out in agony, hoping that her screams will somehow relieve her agony. She has no family and is all alone in her crisis. As the nurses prepare her for childbirth this young mother-to-be can't help but wonder if her expected baby will be born in good health. She is addicted to crack cocaine and after several hours she gives birth to a beautiful eight pound, six ounce, baby boy. Born with an addiction to crack, four days later he is diagnosed as a "crack baby." He will spend the rest of his life coping with an habit that he had nothing to do with and emotions that he will more than likely never understand.
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On the other side of the city what at one time was a happy family is now a family in disarray. Jim and Angela have been joyfully married for more than fifteen years. There was once a time that Jim brought everything he earned home to his beautiful wife and their three children. They regularly went on family outings and their lives were full of happiness. But since he got addicted, Jim steals everything that is not under lock and key from his family to supply his increasing drug habit, and because of his craving for drugs his family has been destroyed.
These are not scenes from a motion picture. They are indicative of experiences that transpire in the lives of real people every day. People who live protected lives have no idea that real people like you and me with friends, family, emotions and ambitions really live and die this way.
Any person who abuses drugs to the point of becoming addicted will in the long run be consumed by them. The drug will soon decide the condition of life for the addict. Work ethics will decline as the addict simply does not show up for work because the addict is absorbed in his or her state of euphoria induced by the drug. As a consequence of their habit psychological problems will occur which can lead to life-threatening physical ailments, as well as heart attack, stroke, and loss of body organs.
If someone you love is addicted to drugs, it can become an a huge emotional strain. Successful addiction treatment is in the hands of the addicted person. You cannot force them to stop using drugs; the final step is up to them. It doesn't matter how much we would like to observe that person give up using, the ultimate option is theirs.
Author Resource:-
Eric Dunbar is the owner and editor of Golden Entrepreneur, where you will find outstanding resources to help the online entrepreneur excel in business. Eric Dunbar is also the author of THE FACE OF A DEMON, referred to by many as “The Recovering Addict’s Handbook”, and editor of X-JOURNAL Blog
