Believes on addiction

Believes on addiction

From the country far from society, my older sister and I grew up to strong catholic values. We were taught to follow the 10 commandments of God, where one of them states to “Honor your father and your mother by treating them with respect and obedience”. We were always told that abusing any kind of drugs and alcohol was a sin. Living on a farm, therefor made us un-intentionally isolated from the world. As a result, we didn’t know any other way of thinking but of what our parents told us. In this paper, I will refer back to the different models of addiction that took place during my life span.
As a kid, I often recall thinking about how I didn’t know much about my grandmother’s family (my mom’s mom). Surprisingly, after she past away we found out the major reason why she raise her children in a strict catholic environment. My grandmother grew up within a large family where her father died at a young age from sickness. Later on, two of her brothers became alcoholics, which they would physically and sexually abuse her when they were intoxicated. She finally left home to live and work on her own, then got married and started a family. She raise her children to believe and follow a specific religion in order to keep them away from any kind of abuse (drugs and alcohol). The Moral Legal Perspective applies well with the way my grand-mother perceived addiction, “Drugs are the problem, people who use them are deviant or bad. The context is irrelevant”. She dedicated herself to her children and home. She seperates herself from any close relatives who once abused drugs and alcohol in order to protect her family from addictions.
To me, an addiction involves craving for something intensely, losing control over its use, to keep using despite other consequences that follows. Its not only which ever substances you abuse that causes addiction, but rather the reason for taking it. Many addicts are just lost individuals that can’t manage to find their way back. The addiction...

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