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The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 comedy drama film that depicts a typical life of a
NYC-stock broker named Jordan Belfort also known in real life as Leonardo DiCaprio.
Jordan Belfort went from rags to riches when he started illegally selling penny-stocks.
Jordan, unlike another stockbrokers, had a gift of selling. His words and phrases could convince any buyer. Eventually Jordan climbed up the corporate ladder and started his own company called Stratton Oakmont. People went nuts about Stratton Oakmont, every college student fantasized for working for Belfort and his team. Belfort doubled his team of employers within months. Success was at his hands. Unfortunately, fame and fortune started to weaken Jordan Belfort as a person. …show more content…

His life was operating on drugs specifically cocaine and
Quaaludes.
Jordan would be repetitively snorting cocaine. He snorted cocaine in any given situation possible even at his wedding with Naomi, his second wife. His drug addiction started with cocaine and eventually it went towards Quaaludes. The scientific name for
Quaaludes is Methaqualone; Methaqualone is known to be a sedative-hypnotic drug that affects the central nervous system as a depressant. Jordan became reliant on on
Quaaludes, which classified him as a drug addict. Drug Addiction is a enduring relapsing disease and does have disadvantageous consequences. The drug eventually loses its potency and Jordan started suffering abnormal behavior. During the movie, there was a scene in which Jordan went bizarre on the plane and the captain had to buckle him down.
I believe this was the first time in the movie in which someone mentioned to Jordan how much of a drug-addict he is. Being a drug addict is caused by common sways such as
Biology, Environment, and Development. I believe Jordan experienced the effects of overstimulation of the rewards system, which was flooded by the amounts of dopamine in
his

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