Argumentative Essay On Drug Addiction

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Second, it is also clear how the community of those who live the life of the drug dealer/ user, became heavily influence by the actions and deeds of those who surround them. When you have a population of people who wake up, and do not see hope beyond their current conditions, they easily fall victim to the activities that surround them. Why should an 11 year old boy go to school, if one, the teachers do not hold him to any accountability or interest in why he should stay in school, two, and his father is in prison and the mother is sprung out on drugs? This 11 year old boy become influence by the drug dealer who appear to have all that he needs. His heroes and role models are those who are the drug dealers, and gang members. On his own he learned …show more content…

When I looked at my parents I did not see drug addicts, I saw my parents, and I loved them as such. My parents were what you call functional addicts. They went to work every day, and struggled in their addictions by night. Yes there was times where the lights got shut off, and we had those eviction notices on the doors. Sometimes we did not have food to each. But my parents were my parents and I never questioned them. Most people judge drug addicts as if this is life they choose, and in many cases it is not so. You will never understand the mind of a drug dealer/ abuser until you live in there world. In world of those who are depressed, oppressed, and stressed out drugs serve as a way to escape their current conditions, it does not heal the pain, but it mask the pain. So I live in a community of those who were in pain, and did not know what to …show more content…

Drugs can affect anyone. No drug addict of drug abuser has the same story. You may be wonder how am I where I am in life? I am not a product of my environment because I had many people talk to me about their life, and why I should not follow in their footsteps. I saw how hard it was for my mom and dad to overcome their addictions and I knew that, that is not the life I want for

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