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Taking a look at modern-day drug addiction, in several of its different forms, is probably necessary, given our ongoing and seemingly never-ending war against drugs. In many cases, it must be said, it’s a good thing that we as a society are striving mightily against such substances, as many of them can be truly addictive and physically harmful in both the short and long runs.

Anybody who isn’t completely brain dead has heard of the death of a very famous singer recently. Talk is constantly in air about the possibility of him suffering from drug addiction revolving around a diverse selection of prescription medicines. And this is an important thing to note: Much of the problem with addiction has to do with legally-prescribed medications. Let’s move on to illegal drugs, though.

In the last third of the 20th century, popular literature was filled with tales of “hop heads” (those addicted to amphetamines, or “speed”) or “dope fiends, ” which was a general category pretty much encompassing anybody with an addiction or serious taste for anything from marijuana to morphine right up to the granddaddy of them all, heroin. That last drug was a particularly cruel master, as many addiction experts found out.

More tony or stylish drug addiction issues exist today. Cocaine is still something that many people consider to be flying under the radar screen, but it can be quite something to deal with when hooked on it. Poorer communities and groups – who couldn’t afford a “taste” – ended up seriously strung out on crack cocaine, which was at once both cheaper to procure but infinitely speedier in getting a person hooked on it.

Today, the scourge substance among those who study drug addiction is methamphetamine, or “crystal.” This drug, cheaply cooked up in meth labs sometimes set up in the kitchen of a family home, can hook a person so quickly – and equally as quickly lead them down a road that leads to their death in many cases – that it stuns even the most jaded hardcore law enforcement officers with its addictiveness.

All is not lost, however. Today, drug awareness and therapies for helping an addict get off whatever substance he or she may be hooked on are better than ever. The societal question of just how to deal with a drug addict is an ongoing source of tension between medical and law enforcement personnel, though. That tension shows no sign of resolving one way or the other any time in the near future.

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