Drug addiction is a behavior that is to consume habitually or periodically, one or more psychotropic substances (drugs) may lead to addiction or state of physical dependence or psychological.
For some, addiction is a coping strategy that allows a person to anesthetize using psychotropic drugs, feelings of helplessness, failure, incompetence, that is to say that depression feeds despair or pain of living sometimes rooted deep within themselves since childhood.
For others, addiction is part of a hedonistic lifestyle, egocentric and antisocial adopted prior to their introduction to drugs, the pursuit of pleasure is the basis or purpose of life, at a minimum price of effort.
“Drug addiction is a multidimensional problem because it affects the physical and mental health of individuals, their social and economic life and, in some cases because they are likely to face justice. It is multidimensional because it has many causes and many consequences, it touches many facets of life of the individual and his environment and it affects the mental balance of the person, it interferes with the quality life’s relationships, that is to say in his roles as spouse, parent, brother, sister, son, daughter, employee, employer, citizen, etc. (more…)
