Why a Drug Addict Keeps Using Drugs

When someone is addicted to drugs he may really want to quit but he can't for a variety of reasons. The fact is, he is in most cases frantic to quit but he can not because he is both physically and emotionally addicted. This is puzzling to family and friends around the drug addict since they see the drugs destroying his life yet he continues to take them.

The drug addiction is a thing that occurs over time and there are degrees of this. Sometimes the person is only able tohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif get, or accept help when he has truly hit bottom and there is no lower to go. Very often, to others, he has appearhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifed to hit bottom many times and yet continues to sink lower. Sometimes death is the bottom. The fortunate drug addict, if there is such a thing, is the one that will accept help in time before death occurs.

The way he or she got addicted initially was that they used the drug to kill some type of pain: physical, emotional or mental. When the drug wears off the pain returns even stronger. The person believes he needs more drugs to kill the pain. The more he uses the more he wants until finally he does not want the drug he needs it to eradicate the pain created by the drug.

At this stage the addict usually realizes they have a problem, although they still may not admit it to others, but they don’t sense they can do something about it. Drugs impact the body’s natural metabolism by destroying nutrients at unusually high speed. When a body lacks these nutrients, a person experiences destructive symptoms. Regular drug use goes on to create deficiencies and imbalances.

As the person proceeds to take the drugs, he needs them to do away with the unwanted conditions in his body, he believes. To handle those conditions he will take more drugs. Now he is addicted. If he doesn’t get help he will continue to get even worse. He may go through times where he slows down the addiction but then something similar to what got him started occurs again, physically or emotionally and he drops back to his stable datum of the drug.

If a drug addict is actually going to get his life back he ought to get into an effective drug rehab. Nine times out of ten that is the sole solution. Otherwise they are being condemned to a life of misery with a significantly shortened life span or a very painful, greatly hastened death.