How does addiction develop? Addiction first manifests itself out of curiosity. Over time, this situation can lead to addiction.
Addiction is a vicious cycle. The person first feels curiosity towards the substance, but at the same time fears the effects of the substance.
If curiosity overcomes fear, the person who starts using it by saying "nothing will happen from just once" thinks he will never use it again after trying it once, but the expected end never comes. In the next stage, the person denies having a problem with substance use, thinks and believes that he is in control and can quit whenever he wants. Warnings from people around him are nothing more than paranoia to him.
The best answer to the questions of how addiction develops and how its course progresses over time is the determination of the underlying problem causing the addiction. When this underlying problem is identified, addiction can be treated with a multidisciplinary perspective.
Individuals who develop substance dependence begin to take the substances they are addicted to in larger amounts than they intended. Over time, this causes the general state of addiction to persist even more.
They engage in a constant, futile effort to quit or use it in a controlled manner. They spend a great deal of time acquiring, using, or recovering from the effects of the substances they use.
As a result, they disrupt their daily routines. Students' school attendance and academic performance decline, and they conflict with their families. Their peer group changes; they start coming home late, lying, and spending a large portion of their time in their rooms.
Just as addiction is treatable, even if the person is treated, a treatment program must be created by including the person's close circle, including his immediate family, in the treatment. It should not be forgotten that addiction is a treatable disease, and one should not be pessimistic.
Adults, on the other hand, start having problems at work, do not devote enough time to his family and neglect them, and enter into constant conflict and arguments. In addition to all these, he continues to use substances even though he knows he has physical and psychological problems. He decides to quit repeatedly but never succeeds. Because he fails, he is overcome by feelings of guilt and failure. He takes more substances to get rid of these feelings.
