Drug and Narcotic Addiction
What is Drug Addiction?
Addiction to drugs is a sickness that has a detrimental impact on a person’s brain and behavior. A person might become consumed with any type of drug, legal or illegal. Certain drugs can lead to addiction in certain people. This addiction develops gradually when the user continues to use the drug regardless of the harm it produces. In today’s world, the most often abused drugs are nicotine, marijuana, and alcohol.
- Addiction is not limited to heroin, cocaine, or other illegal narcotics.
- Alcohol, nicotine, sleep and anti-anxiety drugs, and other legal substances can all lead to addiction.
- You can also become addicted to narcotic pain relievers, generally known as opioids, whether purchased legitimately or illegally. In the United States, this problem has reached epidemic proportions. Opioids were responsible for two-thirds of all drug overdose deaths in 2018.
- You may initially opt to consume a drug because you enjoy the way it makes you feel. You may believe you have control over how much and how frequently you use it. However, medicines alter the way your brain functions over time. These physical alterations can be long-lasting. They cause you to lose control and can result in harmful behavior.
What is Narcotic?
- Analgesic (pain alleviation), narcotic (condition of lethargy or sleep), and addictive drug (physical dependence on the drug).
- Narcotics can also cause euphoria in certain people (a feeling of great elation)
- Narcotics found naturally in the opium poppy have been utilized for pain relief and exhilaration since ancient Greek times.
- Opium poppy extracts were smoked, consumed, or drunk. During the first part of the nineteenth century, the pharmacologically active components of opium were separated.
- The first was morphine, which was discovered in 1804 by a young German chemist named F.W.A. Sertürner. Codeine, a considerably weaker narcotic, was isolated from morphine.