WAR ON DRUGS: Chance for a change

WAR ON DRUGS: Chance for a change

                    Drugs is dangerous. Once you decide to try and use this, you will be addicted and using this will become a habit. In reality, drug addiction is a complex disease, and quitting usually takes more than good intentions or a strong will. According to author, Nicole Lee, drugs change the brain in ways that make quitting hard, even for those who want to.Substance abuse comes in many different forms and can happen for many different reasons. Whatever the reason they have, I think that they must be given a chance and not be killed immediately.

          They should be given a chance because they might actually change, they just need help with it. As I've mentioned earlier, quitting drugs can be difficult. It would be better if the users would be brought to the rehabilitation center for medication and to help them and their body adjust in living without the use of drugs.

1,100 patients at Manila's Bicutan Rehabilitation Center

          Some of these drug addicts or users still have families that care and love them even when they have bad habits. According to Sara Bellum (2012), one of the most common reasons, among teenagers and young adults, why they use drugs is peer pressure or wanting to fit in. In a lot of cases, They do not understand the severity of using drugs which is why most of them don't listen to their families.

Nanette Castillo grieves next to the dead body of her son Aldrin, an alleged drug user killed by unidentified assailants in Manila on Oct. 3, 2017.

          If we bring them to the rehab centers, they will find an oppurtunity to make themselves and their lives better, if they are willing to. Based on my research regarding drug addiction, there are people who want to change and quit drugs but are having a difficult time, but if we help them, they might actually change for the better. 

Alleged drug addicts and pushers wait to undergo drug tests following their surrender to authorities at Camp Karingal police station in Manila on June 22, 2016.

          Therefore, we must give them a chance, not all of them wants to continue their habits. Some of them are just having a difficulty changing. That's why we must help and give them a chance for a change.