Keith Jordan
Training the Future Addict
Abuse vs. Substance Use Disorder
SUBS 505
Liberty University
Introduction
Abuse vs. Substance Use Disorder
Clinton (n.d) defined addition as,” An obsession or compulsion with a physical or chemical dependency on a substance or person”. If someone who is abusing drugs can peek into his or her future and grasp the grim reality that it’s never as good as the first time, will they still take their very first round of drugs. Surely they won’t especially after they have seen what it has done to them right, the loss of weight and teeth, family separation, greatly decline in income, health issues and maybe even death. The trick of the beast, Clinton (n.d.) stated,” Compulsion can dominate a person’s life despite harmful consequences”. Families are repeatedly exposed to sensible to severe methods of aggravation, clashing with the abuser and stressed atmosphere when they oppose their drug-abusing family member behavior (Gilron & Downie, 2007). People first use drugs and other factors, because it makes them feel good (Doweiko, p 11), but abuse leads to addiction. For a short while, the abuser is still able to hold down a job and provide for their family, but what they don’t understand is that the beast in which they are consuming is growing faster and stronger within them mentally and spiritually. Tolerance is said to develop when the individual must use more of the drug of abuse in order to achieve the desired effects, because the initial dose is no longer as effective (Doweiko, p15). So when a person has just started using drugs, that person is abusing, and only for a little while they still have little control, but that is the trick of the beast. Rather it’s being homeless, taking food out of a child’s mouth, standing on the corner lying to folks saying you need money for gas (where’s your car), it doesn’t matter because the beast has risen...