Substance Abuse Risk Factors
Substance abuse is a compilation of experiences, environments and motivations that propel individuals into different directions. It is the unique makeup of an individual’s story. Everyone is brought to the same ending from a different beginning. While some experiences are shared, there are plenty of risk factors that can contribute to the development of addiction. Most risk factors fall into one of several categories.Substance abuse does not follow a pattern. It does not have a set of rules that determine whether or not someone will develop an addiction. There are individual differences in awareness to substance dependence due to environmental and genetic factors. Genetics contribute to the increased likelihood that an individual will abuse drugs, and to what extent the substance abuse may expand. Environmental risk
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factors include availability of drugs, poverty, social changes, peer influences, employment status, type of occupation and cultural attitudes. Individual risk factors include: being a victim of child abuse, personality disorders, extreme changes in family situation,problems, academic stress,depression, and suicidal behavior.
Also, the children who has been nurtured in bad environment is affected. But over a lifespan many people experiment with a variety of potentially dependence on substances abuse, most do not become dependent.Those who drop out of school, are unemployed or live in unsafe areas are at higher risk, especially if their home environment has already exposed them to drugs and/or alcohol.Disclosure to these elements early in life leads many young adults down the same paths and can be difficult to escape. For example, people who live in primeval villages without modern conveniences such as cars, TV's, electricity, telephones, electrical appliances, Internet, etc have social influences that prevent substance abuse.The people there are all helping with each other; each one doing a job in the community such as farming, raising cows and chickens,, making bread, making clothes,, collecting firewood, being a medicine man, raising children, etc have been not affected to substances
abuse. Above all, the people who most affected to substances abuse have been thought escape from reality.
factors include availability of drugs, poverty, social changes, peer influences, employment status, type of occupation and cultural attitudes. Individual risk factors include: being a victim of child abuse, personality disorders, extreme changes in family situation,problems, academic stress,depression, and suicidal behavior.
Also, the children who has been nurtured in bad environment is affected. But over a lifespan many people experiment with a variety of potentially dependence on substances abuse, most do not become dependent.Those who drop out of school, are unemployed or live in unsafe areas are at higher risk, especially if their home environment has already exposed them to drugs and/or alcohol.Disclosure to these elements early in life leads many young adults down the same paths and can be difficult to escape. For example, people who live in primeval villages without modern conveniences such as cars, TV's, electricity, telephones, electrical appliances, Internet, etc have social influences that prevent substance abuse.The people there are all helping with each other; each one doing a job in the community such as farming, raising cows and chickens,, making bread, making clothes,, collecting firewood, being a medicine man, raising children, etc have been not affected to substances
abuse. Above all, the people who most affected to substances abuse have been thought escape from reality.