Research Paper On Addiction

Addiction
Has America become a nation full of addicts? In today's current generation everyone's addicted, from the abuse of prescription medication to the use of social media. The human brain is susceptible to addiction very easily. Addiction is what drives people to make decisions, it alters a person's behavior based on a developed dependence to a certain substance or thing. Nothing is worse on a country's’ society than a people who’ve growingly become reliant. America as a whole needs to work on fixing its major 3 issues with addiction, from its growing drug problem, its social media issue with young adults, and its obesity epidemic.
Firstly in defense to counter claims, not everyone's addiction is such a bad thing, like being addicted
Those addictions better ones self, it is okay if a person is moderately driven by self-benefit. Another argument that can be made against America's social media and obesity problem is that Americans have the freedom to do whatever they want, if the people want to eat as much as they want and use their phones all day because they can then that should be allowed because there is no law in place to prohibit that. Americans should be able to appreciate their blessing, for example “...estimates that about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in 9, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016. Almost all the hungry people, 780 million, live in developing countries” (“Hunger Notes”, par.6). Having the ability to be able to choose what one wants to eat for every meal of the day is a gift whether it may seem like it or not, many other people in the world are much less fortunate. It also isn’t a crime to order fast food from time to time, it can be convenient when in a hurry. As for technology, cellphones and other technological advancements should be taken advantage of, as they are privileges due to decades of inventor’s trial and error. In just a few years the transformation of the land line telephone to the modern smartphone is
This growing addiction has greatly impacted the safety of this, once clean, country. For example “In the United States alone, substance addictions cost the government over 200 billion USD each year.” (“The Impacts”, par.1). Based on this fact it is evident that drug abuse has gotten out of hand, it leads to crime, abuse, job loss, and possibly even homelessness. Another prime example of the drug addiction crisis, “Around 80% of prisoners incarcerated since 1985 are there because of a drug related offence.” (“The Impacts”, par 5). The second highest cause of accidental death in America is by the overdose of prescribed medication. It is tragic to say that because of years of this growing problem, it has all become the norm, which is unacceptable. America also suffers greatly from its addiction to its media, or more specifically social media. Social media is highly addictive especially for the youth of America, teenagers. It decreases productivity and causes people to block out or ignore the real world they live in. People rely on their phones for just about everything and it has come to the point where nearly everyone would be lost if they were to lose their smartphone or computer. An article on social networking by ProCon.org records “Social media enables the spread of unreliable and false information. 64% of people who use twitter for news say that they