With new and improved developments on medical care and advancements in medical technologies, specifically medical drugs, there have been many reports of such drugs being abused and misused. The reported abuse on medical drugs are not the only reported incidents, but also the abuse of nonmedical illegal drugs, which has dated back to early 1950’s to present day. Because the effect of drugs alter the human body’s natural function, in some cases for health benefit and other cases for the pleasure of a euphoria-like feeling, people have a tendency of developing an addiction the whatever substance they are using and they begin to abuse that drug. Many factors are played in the development of a person’s abuse of drugs and many other effects are produced in result of that abuse. The addiction to a drug is usually a way out from the emotional or physical pain of individuals, but it usually comes at a price.
Cai-Lian Tam (1622) and Yie-Chu Foo (194) both come to similar conclusions on the factors that contribute to an individual’s drug abuse: they both come to the results that parents, friends, media and easy accessibility play a major role on influencing someone to do drugs. Both authors write that if a person’s parents are involved in drugs the children have a big chance of picking up the habit; and the same goes with one’s peers and the media. Muhammad Khattak (827) came to a similar conclusion about the easy accessibility of drugs and peers having an influence on drug consumption. His research indicates that 25 to 44% of self-reporting students admit to consuming alcohol or other illicit drugs, and also how that affects their performance and lifestyle’s on campuses. Tam, Foo and Khattak all identify how addictions can and do develop among individuals, but Tam and Foo lack the effects those addiction can have on people.
Denise Hines (32) and Neil McKeganey (234) provide information about how alcohol and drug abuse impact the people that have relationships...