Addiction
Addiction is an illness that has an emotional impact on one’s brain and conduct. When you are dependent on drugs, you can’t fight back the desire to use them, no matter how much harm the drugs might reason. Drug abuse does not mean only illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine; several people get hooked to alcohol, nicotine, opioid painkillers, and o there authorized substances. At first, one chooses to take the drug for pleasure, reduce pain, or even forget a certain situation. One thinks they can control themselves, but within time one loses self-control and then becomes an addict. However, drug abuse or consumption is triggered by several situations. This paper focusses on how poverty and stress have contributed to drug addiction or alcohol addiction.
The relationships between addition, poverty, and remains a complicated issue. People with the least income are likely to struggle with drug or alcohol abuse. Poverty does not directly cause poverty, but they are interconnected. In some cases, financial troubles result in a substance use disorder. Stress is a well-known cause of substance abuse and relapse after treatment. Worrying about sheltie and food and other basic needs causes a tremendous amount of stress. When you struggle to make ends meet, there is a great temptation to temporarily turn to drugs and alcohol to escape from your troubles.
When trying to meet your daily expenses, you feel hopeless, and you keep thinking about how impossible it is to have even basic things. This results in hopelessness and later results to stress, and later you turn to drug abuse. The same has become the most significant limitation when trying to work with the addicts. Access to health care is another limitation when dealing with poverty and stress. Anytime you lack access to health care due to lack of funds, it results to stress.