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Causes Of Addiction PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jack Wogan   
While teenagers may become addicts because of a trend in their milieu or because of their dysfunctional families, adults are likely victims of addiction in their moments of weakness, when they are struck by personal tragedies such as losing a loved person or a job, things they gave meaning to their life.
by JackWogan


While teenagers may become addicts because of a trend in their milieu or because of their dysfunctional families, adults are likely victims of addiction in their moments of weakness, when they are struck by personal tragedies such as losing a loved person or a job, things they gave meaning to their life.

Still, the most tragic cases are those of teenagers or young people, who have less freedom of choice, if any, with their limited understanding, experience or financial means. While adults have reason and analytical abilities to hang to when fighting against a crisis, the youth have nothing than their family or friends, possibly the very ones that pushed them into the addiction abyss.

It's what we see, for instance, in the movie 'Rachel Is Getting Married', where Kim, the future bride's sister is a drug addict that practically killed her little brother in a car accident, while being high. Now she is leaving the drug rehab center for her sister's wedding but, although clean for nine months already, her psychological problems that pushed her into addiction are far from being solved. And how they could ever be, given that she is fond of her family that actually torments her every minute? Her mother is ice-cold and a hypocrite, her sister is likewise and envious into the bargain, believing that their father cares for Kim more than for her, and his father, too, although fond of her and obviously a good person, cannot accept she is an addict that needs curing. So how is he different from her sister that believes her a pathological liar, if neither of them is able to acknowledge that she is sick? Only family therapy could help in such a case.

In 'Candy', on the other hand, we have three case studies of addiction: Casper, a well-to-do middle-aged professor and his protegees - lovers Dan and Candy. While the first seems to be lucid and balanced, the latter seem to be immersed in their love. But all of them are addicted, not only to the passion for young men, like the first, or to a destructive relationship, like the latter, but to heroin in the first place. It's heartbreaking to see how Dan and Candy's youth, beauty, love and talent get debased by stealing, prostitution, nervous breakdown and 'killing' their own child. What could cause all this havoc? - The thrill, at first, the tyrannical habit later. And like Kim, Candy found in drugs a means of relaxation and escape from a demanding cold mother.

All of them are, therefore, victims of their milieu, family and unsolved escalating problems. And while their medical condition can be improved by a routine detoxification, their psyche is resistant to recovery and likely to relapse, the enduring habits of taking drugs for escaping into 'nirvana' being hard to break.

About the Author:

In a drug rehab centre addicts can obtain medical information for free, as well as research publications and newsletters about drug addictions.

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