Factor #1 How It All Starts:

When a person finds no solution to a persisting problem, he sooner or later finds that drugs relieve symptoms.

A good example is someone who is experiencing lack of self-esteem, discomfort around people, anxiety, or depression can soon or later find that drugs relieve his emotional pain—for a while.

Another popular example is a person who finds it difficult to cope with life’s current pressure imposed on him. Partying and getting high is another way to escape.

These examples describe a good number of our youth today and that is why they are especially vulnerable to drugs, even when they come from good families.

High school and college can be difficult times, and drugs can appear to be an easy escape, or a way to cope with their immediate challenges.

Before they know it, they find themselves dependent on their drug or medication of choice to cope with their problems and escape reality.

Until the initial problem itself is effectively resolved the person will be dependent on drugs or even addicted to them.

An effective rehab program would have to teach the necessary life skills so the addict feels competent and capable to resolve his initial problem without drugs, alcohol or medication.

But now that the person has abused drugs, two new factors have entered the equation and must also be resolved.

Read about Factor #2: Creating the Compulsion