Entry nº 26

Personal Reaction: Desperate measures

Addition is a problem very difficult to deal with because drugs and alcohol start a process of deterioration of our body and mind, it is the most effective and slower road to death.
A user of drugs sooner or later becomes dependent and if he or she cannot give it up or if they haven’t got a person who can help them, they will certainly die.
Taking into account the attitude that this English mother took to help and deal with her son’s addition, we have to understand that they are not just sick people that have to be cured or a sort of problematic group that spoil our society, they are persons who have used drugs as a escape from reality that reality that affects at all of us.
Life is not an easy game to play, but there are some people strong enough to deal with it and there are others that can’t stand this and try to escape using drugs or alcohol as their anaesthetic for reality.
Addicts have to be helped because they can not fight alone in the war of detoxing it is a process that produces many physical and mental disturbs, they need to be tried as persons with problems, with an illness that although it seems not to have cure it has and it depends mainly on themselves and partly in the people around them.