Addiction In Brave New World

Have you ever been stressed out to the point where you just want to detach yourself from reality? Many reasons can contribute to this such as school, work, or your home life. All of those can contribute to a build up in stress levels and cause you to want to just get away any way you can. Drinking alcohol, taking drugs and/or self-harm are some of the many ways people will try to escape from reality. People should not use drugs or alcohol to try to escape from reality. It causes people to develop an addiction, leads to overdose, and it causes them to loss of control. Addiction is an unfortunate side effect of using drugs. Many people become addicted to drugs over a course of time.Addiction isn’t something that happens instantly. Addiction does not only affect the person who’s

In modern society, a time that was full of drugs and people with heavy addictions was the Crack Epidemic. Crack during the 1970s can be compared to Soma in Brave New World. Everybody was using it to escape reality. Due to getting a sense of euphoria, crack just like soma was used to escape their current circumstances. In Brave New World Soma is their drug of choice to escape reality. A recurring consumer of soma is Linda. Linda, John’s mother is conditioned to take soma and ends up becoming addicted to the drug. Since she’s rejected by society, she uses this drug to escape. “Greedily she clamoured for ever larger, ever more frequent doses. Dr.Shaw at first demurred; then let her have what she wanted. She took as much as twenty grammes a day” (Huxley 154). Just like the Crack Epidemic, many people took drugs for many reasons not only for escaping reality, but for things such as fitting in, experiment, and many others. Linda took the