Essay 2: Drugs and alcohol: socialization or addiction

The discussion about drug consumption is still important to the world, in fact, now we are in a crucial moment about this issue since the consumption increases every year around the world. The governments have policies to controlate the traffic of drugs, and invest a lot of money every year on that, however although the efforts that governments one making, the situation is worst. Because of that, we realize that if the governments invest more money in the drugs problem, not necessarily the consumption will decrease. Believe it or not, the money is not the solution to solving this huge global problem. To have a better comprehension about this situation, the next paragraph will focus on the different drugs and the possible causes of its consumption.

There is a range of different drugs, so there is some classifications for them, for example: the effects in the body, the way of administration, the physical dependence, and the composition of the drugs. Alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine and medicines are drugs too, not only because of the effects in the brain of consumers, but also because they disturb their behavior. Apparently, these drugs are inoffensive, but they are not; they are just legal but that doesn´t mean that they are not dangerous. In fact, some of these are even more dangerous that some of the illegal drugs. In the case of medicines, they are dangerous just in some situation, so if someone takes more pills than necessary, it will probably have dangerous consequences. In some cases people can be self-sufficient but in others can be dead.

Why do people begin to consume drugs? Generally, people know that drugs are dangerous, but is not so easy. Genetically some persons are more likely to become addicted, but commonly, people do not know that. In this way, a person discovered that is addicted just after consuming that drug. So, in this point the society have a big influence, because it has been said that the majority of the people takes a first drug doses in the middle of a social event. And then, it has been said too that the majority of people still consume drugs in social activities, and not alone. However, not only is a consumer who became s addicted to drugs, but the person needs also a group which takes drug.

Additionally, some drugs cause more addiction than others. For example, it has been said that cannabis do not cause physical addiction, however when a person starts to consume cannabis, there are more possibilities that they will try another drug. Alcohol is commonly consumed, but is highly addictive and causes a lot of problems to the brain. Caffeine is also commonly consumed, but the effects that cause in the brain are considered bad to the health. However, there are others drugs more dangerous like LSD and methamphetamines that cause injuries to the brain and causes dependence in consumers, and sometimes the persons can net be free of them. Every day more and more persons die because of that, even famous people are dead because of drugs.

Finally, this topic is very complex, because there us a lot of factors to be considered, to understand the situation. Some countries decided to legalize some drugs to try to reduce the consumption, like Holland for example, but that doesn´t work so well. Another country like Uruguay which made another decision to legalize the entire process of production and consumption of cannabis. Another example is USA, who made policies even more rigorous for people who produce, distribute, and consume drugs. People expect that the governments do something to stop the problems that cause the consumption of drugs, but seems to be more difficult every day.