There are many reasons someone might turn to drug use such as personal or family problems, having low self-esteem, the loss of a cherished person in their life, losing a job, or even because the person feels they have no friends. Some people who go through chronic pain have also been known to become addicted or dependent on drugs, prescribed or otherwise. Some studies believe that prescription medicines are even more dangerous because of the common thought “it’s prescribed so it must be safe.” But that is untrue, legal medicines have been proven to be quite dangerous in fact, one study says that every 19 minutes someone dies from misuse of prescription drugs, all together legal medicines are killing more people than illegal drugs. (CDC Grand …show more content…
(The opiod crisis in America's workforce, n.d.) To quote William S. Burroughs; “The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptoms were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict. The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have