An undergraduate in arts # 3

Source Text:

Risk factors for the development of addiction include:

• early childhood or family trauma
• certain psychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorder, and schizophrenia
• family history of substance abuse
• childhood/early teenage drug or alcohol use.

(p. 28)

Source:

Compton, P. (2001). Understanding Addictive Disease. Nursing, 31 (9), p. 28.

Writer’s Text:

Influences from early in our lives such as childhood trauma or adolescent drug or alcohol abuse can contribute to initial experimentation with a drug. If a child goes through emotional difficulties early on in life, it builds the foundation for a dependency on an illicit substance. This substance, whether it is a type of drug, or alcohol, serves as an escape from reality for the abuser. This emancipation from any conflict and anxiety will inevitably lead to increased usage. Having psychiatric disorders or a family history of drug abuse are also contributors to population experimentation with illegal substances (Compton 28).

Writer’s comment:

All this information came from here. I just took all the information and put it in my own words though a whole of the ideas are really common. I just cite the author because I didn’t know any of the stuff really before… It states a lot of points so you can’t really quote it.