Painful memories are effectively blocked from being remembered using drugs and alcohol. In “Understanding Addiction: Why Do Some People Become Addicts?” Elements Behavioral Health explains that humans may turn to substances to help them cope with painful memories, “Trauma: Suffering from a traumatic event, such as abuse …show more content…
The way that a person may view themselves has a huge impact on the way they go about life. Through school, there are the outgoing students, and there is the quiet students. Students who struggle with school, engaging in class activities, and simply engaging in conversation were the students who seem to have a more difficult time in school. Not caring about school progress shows that you do not care about where you are going after school; as if it does not matter, because you do not matter. The students who were doing drugs and alcohol were the students who did not care about their schooling. People who lack self confidence may feel that they do not matter, that people do not care, they feel insignificant. People may use drugs and alcohol with the result that they feel as if they can do anything; become less concerned of how themselves and others view them. Some substances you feel invincible on, people believe that they can do anything; things that they could not do when they were sober.
Addiction should not always be looked down upon. Addicts are not bad people, they are people in need of help to overcome something that has been so destructive. People may view them as bad or selfish people because they can abandon their family, they do not have self control, they can be weak, and they can deceive their families. Some may not realize that anyone can become addicted to