Essay On Opioid Addiction

Addiction is this feeling that takes over the whole body and drives the body insane before it gets what it wants. For me personally, my addiction is to soda. I have to have it with every meal when I am thirsty. I want a soda, and just in my everyday life, I feel like I need a soda. So for my addictions experience, I decided to give up soda for thirty days and evaluate myself and how I felt during the experience. I also chose to watch “The Pharmacist” and evaluate the opioid epidemic and how much drugs can not only change a person, but a whole community. These two activities gave me a much better understanding of how much drugs can impact a person and how much addictions can be controlling and the effects that come from addiction. I have

Soda is my drug, which is why I decided to give soda up for thirty days and evaluate myself and see how this affected me throughout the thirty days. Beginning the experiment I was expecting it to be very difficult and I felt like I really had to be disciplined in not drinking any soda. I was very skeptical, but I was very excited to see the changes in my health over the course of the next month. My first observation was about three days in, this is when I first really started craving soda, especially with my meals. Through this experiment, I felt that the first week was definitely the hardest part of the whole thirty days, but as time went by it got easier and easier. I feel like during the experiment I found myself craving soda often, but I was able to fight through that craving and stay disciplined. I also found ways to satisfy my cravings with other drinks like flavored water, sweet tea, powerade, and juice. This made it somewhat easier to cope with drinking no soda, which is why I feel like I was able to make the full thirty days. I think that going into this experiment I was expecting it to be hard and

From the experiment, I was able to understand the feelings that most people feel that are addicted to drugs. The feeling of desire for something that you crave, that addiction takes over and for me giving up soda I can relate to how hard it is to give up something that is so addicting it takes over your whole body. I was able to put myself into the same situation as someone who is trying to quit drugs and I feel like I fully understand the difficulty for a drug addict to quit. Craving something that your body desires and depends on is so hard to give up, and I feel like the experiment helped me better understand that. After watching “The Pharmacy” I really think that it helped me get a better understanding of the opioid epidemic and just truly how terrible it was. During that time overdoses increased tremendously and more and more people were using drugs. This documentary really showed me that drugs can be easily prescribed just as easily as they can be gotten on the streets. I really enjoyed both the addiction experiment and watching “The Pharmacy”, and I feel like I have a way better understanding of how it feels to be addicted to something, and the effects of the Opioid