What are social consequences of drug addiction?
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Background: Abuse of alcohol and drugs is a worldwide problem. In countries of the South Asian region including Bangladesh, Butan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, the drugs commonly abused are heroin, cannabis, opium, and pharmaceutical preparations. Abuse of alcohol and tobacco in combinations with other drugs also is seen in these countries. Abuse of drugs not only poses a threat to the individual’s health but consequently gives rise to socioeconomic problems. Alcohol and drug abuse cause stress in a family and drain national resources.
Results: Families suffer due to cultural and social factors of drug behavior, including their own understanding of the disease process and the addict’s behavior due to drug abuse, draining of family resources, shrinking from responsibilities, sickness and death faced as a consequence of drug abuse, extramarital relations, distortion of interpersonal family relationships, and violence. Family reaction to drug addiction includes denial, blaming, suppressed anger, depression, bargaining, preoccupation, change of personality, and codependency. Family and friends respond differently. In a study done in India, a sizable majority (58%) of family members felt bad; nearly two-fifths expressed their annoyance and anger; about one-fifth (22%) advised the addict to give up drugs and expressed negative and nonsupportive attitudes such as hopelessness and being ashamed of the addict’s act; indifference and desertion by the spouse also were expressed by a smaller percentage of family members. Similarly, 42 percent of friends showed concern, 39 percent broke a friendship, and the rest showed no specific reaction. The community also showed resistance.
Results: Families suffer due to cultural and social factors of drug behavior, including their own understanding of the disease process and the addict’s behavior due to drug abuse, draining of family resources, shrinking from responsibilities, sickness and death faced as a consequence of drug abuse, extramarital relations, distortion of interpersonal family relationships, and violence. Family reaction to drug addiction includes denial, blaming, suppressed anger, depression, bargaining, preoccupation, change of personality, and codependency. Family and friends respond differently. In a study done in India, a sizable majority (58%) of family members felt bad; nearly two-fifths expressed their annoyance and anger; about one-fifth (22%) advised the addict to give up drugs and expressed negative and nonsupportive attitudes such as hopelessness and being ashamed of the addict’s act; indifference and desertion by the spouse also were expressed by a smaller percentage of family members. Similarly, 42 percent of friends showed concern, 39 percent broke a friendship, and the rest showed no specific reaction. The community also showed resistance.
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There are some consequences of drug addiction which can affect our society. Drug addiction can harm your physical and psychological health. It affects your family life and professional life too. Most of the time it makes a person violent and insensible, , selfish. In case of student, it impacts on studies. In office or in work place, if you know that your colleague is addicted to drugs, it is difficult to work with that person.
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