Drug abuse is a habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs according to the national survey on drug use and health approximately 27 million americans,or 10.2% of the American population over the age of 12 reported using illicit drugs in 2014 drug in the united states is not only dangerous it's extremly costly.in 2002,for example,drug abuse cost american socity an estimated 181 billion. of this,an over whelming 107 billion was associated with drug related crime.in 2013, 22.7 million americans needed treatment for a substance use disorder almost 9% of the population over the age of 12. only about 2.5 milloion received such treatment at a specialty facility. it is estimated that more than 41% of treatment admissions were for alcohol abuse,20% admissions were for opiate addication treatment, and 17% were for the tratment of marijuana abuse in 2009.
Many people don't uderstant why or how other people become addicted to drugs.they may mistakenly think that those who use drug lack moral principles or willpower and that they could stop their drug use simply by choosing to. in reality, drug addiction is a complex disease,and quitting usually takes more than good intentions or a strong will. Drugs change the brain in ways that make qutting hard, even for those who want to. unfortunately,researchers know more than ever about how drugs affect the brain and have found teatments that can help people recover from drug addiction and lead to productive lives
Drug addiction is a chronic,often realpsing brain disease
that casues compuselsive drug seeking and use despite harmful consequnences to the drug addict and those around them.drug addiction is a brain disease because the abuse of brain.although it is true that for most people the initial decison to make drugs is voluntary,over time the changes in the brain caused by repeated
drug abuse can impair a person's self-control and ability to make
sound decisons, and at the same time create an intense impulse to take drugs drugs are a chemicals that tap into the brain's communication system and disrupt the way never cells normally send,receive,and process information.there are at least two
ways that drugs are able to do this by imitating the brain's
natural chemial messengers and or overstimulating the reward ciruit of brain.
As a person continues to abuse drugs the brain adapst to the dopamine surges by producing less dopamine or redusing dopamine receptors. ER visits caused by non-medical use of prescription drugs increased more then 98% between 2004 and 2009 doing drugs can affect you and your family members.