Drug Addiction In The Los Angeles Diaries By James Brown

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Stress, there is no way to avoid stress being alive. For some reason, people try to avoid, or run away from their problems by doing all kinds of drugs, such as nicotine, marijuana, ecstasy, and much more. These drugs relaxes people, relieving stress for a period of time. Of course, doing drugs is not good for your health, and we can not really prevent people from doing drugs, and getting an addiction in the first place. What people with drug addictions need to do is find any source of help as soon as possible, relieve their stress, or just find a medication. If nothing is treated to the addiction, then the addiction will just grow worse. Drug addictions can only prevent people from accomplishing goals or dreams in life. People sometimes feel …show more content…

Of course, feeling these emotions are all a standard part of life. Finding ways to address these feelings without doing drugs is a key to recover from addictions Being stressed out is the most important key for someone to have a drug addiction, and people find it very difficult to relieve stress without doing drugs, or even alcohol. Drug abuse often blocks from misplaced efforts to cope with stress. In the novel The Los Angeles Diaries by James Brown, the main character is explaining how he tried to relieve stress drinking. “I don’t know, but when I drink I often lose complete sense of time..” (11) Growing up, people usually would turn to alcohol or drugs to relax after a stressful event, or to hide painful memories or emotions. There are much more healthier, and safer ways people can keep stress levels in check, without looking back on your addiction. Different strategies to help stress may work, or not work out better for some people than another. The key for someone is to find which way of relieving stress works out the best for them. When someone finds themselves confident ability to de-stress without the use of drugs will not be as intimidating or

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