Friday, November 5, 2010

Ways to help decrease drug abuse.

Many people that do drugs claim they "want to quit" so why is it that they can't? Drugs are highly addictive which most people know but some people do not know just how hard it is to get off of them. Withdrawals off of many drugs are horrible. Like  having the worst flu you have ever had, not being able to get out of bed, cold sweats, nausea. These are just a few of the symptoms that make it so hard for people to quit there drug use, they may say they are going to quit and they may even try but with many people as soon as the withdrawals begin they get there next fix as soon as they possibly can.
I think that in America we can dramatically reduce the number of drug users if we have treatment for drug users, as we do for other heath problems, more readily available the rate of drug users may just go down. I think that drugs that wing you off of other drugs should be more readily available for addicts. Many addicts have a fear of rehab so they will not go, they do not want to pay the expenses or it to show up on any records. If Dr.'s could prescribe drugs like methadone in small doses to addicts (such as have a weekly plan) that drug users could do at home it may help.  For example one day the drug user takes an amount of the drug to wing them off and steadily decreases it, it may help the drug abuse rate go down.

2 comments:

  1. good statement. although some people then get addicted to the drugs that are "helping" wing them off the bad drug and then people feel they cant be normal without the drug that's helping them so its like a pointless cycle.

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  2. good point but if they take it correctly they shouldnt get addicted, but most drug addicts wont take it correctly!

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