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Introduction
Most of the Australian young people and adolescents fall into addiction ignorantly. Individuals often consume additive substances without being attentive to the consequences of this practice, which eventually results to addition. Many of the young adults in Australia fall into addiction due to their inability to deal with the pressures presented by the life situations. Over 70% of the drug addicts in the vast Australian population started on the drugs as problem solvers and ends up being addicted (Caulkins et al., 2007). In Australia, many people use the drugs that cause addiction among the young adults. The most frequently consumed drugs include marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, and nicotine. Essentially, the drugs function as painkillers and emotion coolers in the short run before they eventually cause addition to the young adults.
Australian Addiction among the Young People
Addiction among the young adults in Australia is prompted by abuse of drugs. At the epicentre of the addiction problem stands the personal relationships of the addicts before they eventually resolve to continued abuse. With time, the people start abusing the substances that result to addition. The young adults exhibit strange behaviour due to the addictive characteristics hence they lose touch with the rest in society. This paper examines the effects that addiction brings upon the young adults in Australia with the view of designing how addiction affects the health and wellbeing of the young adults and adolescents in Australia
Effects of Addiction on Health and Wellbeing of Young Adults and Adolescents
First, the young people who abuse the drugs face heightened anxiety and panic, which leads to accompanying ailments. Due to the emotions that the drugs and substances illicit in their bodies, the young adults and adolescents fear that the society may turn against them hence they constantly panic at any advances to stop them. Such panic later leads to other ailments such as cardiac arrest ad ulcers among the young people. Due to the accompanying ailments, the health, and wellbeing of the young people in Australia deteriorates due to addiction in drugs and substances. When the effects heighten on the young people, most of them resort to solitude lives, segregating themselves from the rest of the people (Marks, 2002). This affects the social lives of many young people especially in the Australian cities.
Memory and attention loss indicate the adverse effects of addiction on the young adults and adolescents in Australia. People in Australia no longer feel surprised when a young addict loses attention in a conversation or when an adolescent cannot recall the information they got moments earlier. This evidences the fact that addiction retards the mental ability of the young people causing them a range of mental issues like loss of memory. Mental health plays a vital role in the life of a young person and adolescent because at the adolescence stage, one must learn to make decisions affecting their lives. At the same time, when the mind is not in a good state, the functioning of the whole body retards as the mind coordinates the body. The effect of addiction on the mental part of the young people, according to Cashmore et al. (2012), hurts the society more as the young people who face addiction in Australia cannot make choices and decisions that the society expects them to make.
Most of the young adults in Australia who have strong addiction tendencies suffer from psychosis. This complication among the young people causes the highest number of crimes among the Australian young adults with six in every ten crimes by the young adults arising from psychotic effects of addiction (Byrnes et al., 2012). Addiction in early stages of life causes total distortion of the mental order of the victims and psychiatric problems arise. The health of the young people faces a great danger from addiction due to this reason because the complication interferes with the whole central nervous system, which causes problems in the future even if it is resolved presently (Marks, 2002). Most of the young adults in Australia whose addiction stretches back to their adolescence develop this complication especially when they have addictions in strong drugs like marijuana and cocaine.
The young adults and adolescents in Australia who abuse the drugs severely face many depression and heart problems. The thought of action under the influence of drugs affects the minds of the young people. The pressure piles on their mental aptitude and depression crops in. In most cases, the young people end up committing crimes because they are depressed or they cannot help thinking about the things they did under the influence of drugs and substances. In the Australian cities, addiction is the second highest cause of suicides among the young people after love scandals. This puts the case with addiction very high that the Australian people worry about it (Byrnes et al, 2012). Most of the people committing suicide suffer from depression arising from the constant use of drugs.
Most of the young adults in Australia fall in the sexually active stage with a few in the marriage stage. Addiction affects the reproductive health of the people adversely. In Australia, many cases come of people suffering due to impotence. Explaining the cases of impotence among the people challenges scientists but the truth is that drugs such as some alcoholic brands can cause impotence. Marriages break at a very high rate among the young adults who are addicted to drugs in Australia due to the sexual repercussions of drugs.
Addition causes weight loss to people suffering from it. In most cases, the people affected by addiction lose their weight, not because of the addition itself but because of the effects of the addiction. In Australia, most of the young people lose weight due to the effects of addiction. Some of the young people encounter depressions, which cause them to lose significant weight. Underweight bodies are scientifically unhealthy for the people. When the weight loss and depression become advanced, the young adults and adolescents suffer from heart problems (Treloar & Holt, 2008). Most of the middle-aged people who die from cardiac arrest in Australia suffer from the effect of depression, weight loss and the parent, which is addiction.
Conclusion
Addiction starts mainly due to the inability of the young people in Australia to handle the life issues as they arise. The young people resolve to drugs and substances in order to settle their emotions and end up being addicted. Addiction causes many problems to the young adults and adolescents in Australia. Some of the effects that addiction causes include suicide, heart problems, depression, weight loss, psychosis, anxiety and panic, and memory loss. All these affects affect the health and wellbeing of the young adults and adolescents in Australia negatively.
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