Letter To Drug Abuse In The United States

I am writing this letter to address a major problem affecting people all over the United States, Drug abuse. Drug abuse “ is the inappropriate use of substances- including alcohol, prescription medication, or illegal drugs – for purposes such as pleasure, to feel or perform better in certain situations, or to change one’s perception of reality.” https://luxury.rehabs.com/drug-abuse/#abusevsaddiction With exploiting these substances your brain starts to behave differently. It actually begins trading the natural chemicals of your brain out for the new chemicals you are depositing into your body. Your brain relies on these new chemicals to replace your own natural chemicals. It releases signals telling your body it needs more of whatever substance you are using. This is what causes addition. Addiction is terrible. It makes it to where the person with addiction can’t t act or function like normal. They start closing off from friends and family. You can see a complete change in a person personality. Drug abuse can cause problems not just mentally but physically too. Drug abuse can cause; damage to all your major organs, strokes, cancer, and even death. Drug abuse is like playing with matches, one moment you are in control the next your world is burning up in flames. Just imagining

Over 2.1 million people a year go to the ER with drug abuse related problems. (That's just all the people who did not have prescribed medication) The number of ER visits that are drug related are steadily increasing. From the year 2004 to 2009 the number actually went up 98%. You would think that the problem would be getting better but its not, its getting worse. We as a nation need to do a better job at informing the average person about drug abuse. People think that they will only take a substance once and then they will stop. They don't know what is happening to their brain when they take that