Prescription Drug Abuse

Drug abuse is the habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs. A drug abuser doesn’t respect life because God gives every person on Earth an opportunity to have a healthy body, healthy mind, and healthy relationships and some people take that for granted and hurt the bodies that God gave them. Many people have medical issues and need to use drugs to help them, but some people take too many prescription drugs and disobey their doctors. There are also people do it once or twice because they are peer pressured and want to fit in, but even people who do it once or twice get addicted and then their life turns into a drug life.

Drug abuse is common around the world, but the numbers stick out mostly in the United States. Over two hundred million

Studies show that not all people get addicted easily. Some people can do drugs their whole life and not be addicted at all. Some people, on the other hand, only do a few drugs and then their bodies need them. National Institutes of Health states “Not everyone with the addiction gene becomes an addict. Genetics and environment together play a

Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (ages 12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time. That does not include youth that have already started. About 570,000 people die annually due to drug use. Every year 440,000 die from diseases related to tobacco, 85,000 due to alcohol, 20,000 due to illegal drugs, and 20,000 due to prescription drug abuse. Studies show that men are more apt to abuse drugs than women are. For most kinds of drugs, most users are men and more men die from drugs.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states in paragraph number 2290, “The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.” This means that no matter what, people should have no reason to do drugs. It hurt them, and most of all other people. The church says that people endanger their own and others safety on a road, sea, or in the