The Lack of Focus on Mental Health for Drug Addicts
“It is all pain. I mean, maybe four years ago when I started this was all fun. But now it is just desperate and pathetic. I have been completely out of control and it is the worst feeling in the world… I want to take full responsibility for what I’ve done.” (Sheff, 316). Nic Sheff’s memoir Tweak, reveals the toll that addiction can take on a person, even when they attempt to recover in rehab and want to get better. All throughout the world the issue of drug addiction is deeper than most people seem to believe. At this point in time everyone high school age or older knows or has seen people who abuse drugs. Though, how many people know of someone who has fully recovered from being addicted?
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Our lack of attention to the correlation between mental health and addiction will lead to an increased amount of adolescent deaths that could have been prevented.
Governments ignoring the facts have led to many people’s lives being ruined due to addiction. In the book Tweak by Nic Sheff he says, “It’s like I’m running on automatic pilot or something. It feels like I have my foot on the gas and I’m going fast and out of control, but I just can’t stop” (Sheff, 152). Sheff wants to ensure that readers realize how difficult it is to stop an addiction when you already feel completely out of control in your life. An important factor to drug addiction, which is heavily emphasized in Tweak, is the impact of mental health and how it is the source for
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If governments worldwide do not look at the facts and realize that to solve the epidemic of drug abuse they have to also focus on the mental factors that cause the addictions to occur, then this problem will just keep growing. The effect of things as they are is already destroying millions of peoples lives worldwide and putting an added strain onto the economy. If governments do not come together and fix this problem urgently, then it will never go