Alcohol & Addiction Intervention for a drug free America, Dopamine deficiency

There are many misconceptions about drug abuse. One misconception is that it's genetic. In fact, it may not be genetic. Another misconception is that every person would get addicted after taking it for a few times. In fact, some people never get addicted, while others get addicted at the first time, and some get addicted at the tenth time... Another misconception is that an alcoholic or drug addict craves for it all the time, and can't go long without it. In fact, addiction could be occasional or very seldom, for example, just at parties or on weekends or holidays. Someone could be addicted and the addiction only comes up once a year, on a holiday such as New Year's. Yet another misconception is that addiction is a sin. In fact, it's not a sin, but rather it's a disease, not a character flaw, and it affects body parts negatively.

Unfortunately, so many people in the world use hard drugs such as nicotine and alcohol, and these are very common problems. Most people know someone who smokes or drinks alcohol.

However, although most people who are not on these drugs do feel ethically obligated to help, there isn't much that can be done. It is very hard to convince a person to stop, unless the person wants to. One should try to say things to the person to let them realize what they are doing to themselves and to get them help.

According to some views, explicit photographs and discussion of addiction induce craving in addicts who have stopped taking drugs (perhaps by inducing conditioned compensatory responses), thus encouraging them to recommence their drug taking. Recovering smokers want to smoke when they smell it or see it. This has implications for the design of televised anti-drug campaigns. Any campaigns that are meant to prevent people from starting drugs and have photographs and discussion of addiction, should start by saying something like, "if you are a recovering addict, don't watch/ read this".  We need to have some type of ads to prevent drug abuse. This can't show the addicted people, so it would have to show rehabilitated people saying that they're off drugs, and they're life is so much better now. Show someone off drugs, clean and non addicted, that has a job, healthy relationships, and chose life rather than a living death.