Drug Addiction Factors

Drug Addiction Factors

Drugs are indeed very detrimental to its users. Many people die from taking drugs, even though many people already know the consequences of taking drugs ranging from various diseases to death, but for people who are already addicted, the person will continue to take drugs and not care about the consequences. According to the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) the number of drug abusers in Indonesia has reached 3.5 million in 2017. There are certain factors that cause a person more susceptible to addiction, for example environmental factors, curiosity, and accidentally addiction.

Environment plays an important role in the emergence of one's addiction. One of the most common reasons why someone is tempted to try to use drugs from outside influences, either directly or indirectly - especially people they often meet or idolize, including parents, friends, siblings, and even celebrities. We live in an era where drug use is openly discussed and even promoted by important people. this affects curiosity and triggers the desire to experiment.

Curiosity is one of human's natural instincts. Many teenagers become drug addicts because they are initiated by experiments with drugs and alcohol on the basis of their curiosity. Many teenagers, even though they know that drugs are bad, they do not believe this will happen to him, so they are determined to try. There are also those who use drugs to get recognition of their social status, also to experience the same as their friends.

Some painkillers are very easy to abuse thanks to the ''anesthetize"  effect, even in unintentional cases. One of them is an opiate medication that doctors prescribe to deal with extreme pain. Opium medicines are very effective in dealing with unbearable pain, for example during cancer therapy or post-surgical treatment. There are also those who use ecstasy to relieve the symptoms of excessive anxiety in certain social situations. But as time passed by, the body can develop tolerance to the effects of this drug, so some people tend to increase the dose without the doctor's permission. This is what causes them to gradually inadvertently depend on the drug.

In conclusion, there are many factors that cause drug addiction, one of which is environmental factors, another one is curiosity, and the other one is accidentally addiction. Lack of understanding of what is a risk factor and the cause of someone becoming a drug addict makes many people blinded by prejudice. Someone who falls in the opium trap is powerless to control his desires and behavior. That is why people who are trying to escape from addiction need to get support and affection, not be ostracized or judged.

Writer : Devi Faizatun