Theme Of Drug Addiction In The Odyssey

In the story of Odyssey, addiction is presented in the lotus eaters’ chapter. The lotus flower gives people a feeling of happiness. It helps them escape reality, and get away from their problems of war, trauma, and more. The lotus eaters and the lotus flower represent people's addiction to drugs. Drugs help addicted people get away from the pain and get away. The lotus flower works the same way. The lotus flower puts people in a trance to feel happy and not feel any pain. So naturally, people get addicted to it like a drug. Drug addiction is a disease. Drugs affect your brain and nervous system. The article, how drugs affect the brain and central nervous system states that “The brain stem controls life-sustaining functions, including sleeping,

It makes you feel happy, and the need for more. To the point where you now desire this happiness, which causes people to become drug addicts. People might say, “Just stop taking drugs' or “It's not that hard just quit”. But in reality drugs have factors that make it hard to “just quit”. It alters your brain, so you know you desire it. You can't live without it. The brain remembers how the high feels and then becomes obsessed and desires the substance. The brain wants to achieve the high again, so it becomes more important and desirable. Then because of this desire, you are now addicted to drugs. Drug addiction and lotus eaters all tie in with the feeling of happiness. And because of that people get addicted to them very easily. My experience with drug addiction is not very good. I have not been affected by drug addiction but the people around me have. One of my older cousins got addicted to drugs, and it went pretty downhill for her. She wasn't doing well nor looked very well. She was in and out of jail and wasn't having good relationships with

Her addiction was causing her to lose things in life. Drugs don’t have a positive effect on people’s lives. Drugs bring long effects on people, and addiction makes it hard to get away from them. Drugs are a struggle for people to walk away from. Drugs aren't a one-man show. People need help and therapy to be able to get back on their feet most of the time. Statistics show that 75% of people receive no help or treatment, and more than 23 million people struggle with drug problems. So out of those 23 million people, 17,250,000 million people are not getting help. People need help getting help with their addiction. Stopping your addiction is a very long process. People just try to abruptly stop taking drugs, but their body becomes so “connected” with the drugs; your brain now relies on them. You are now off drugs. The article, 10 percent of US adults have drug disorder at some point in their lives, states that the “list of symptoms including craving drugs, lack of control, and negative effect on personal and professional responsibilities.” People are addicted to drugs when they stop going through this process, and without help, it pulls them back into getting