The events in Johns life that interrelate to effect his further development is that he has been made redundant and has taken up smoking and heavy drinking. This will physically effect his development as the constant drinking and smoking will go onto harm his organs and can lead to liver damage, lung cancer, yellow teeth’s or failure of the organ itself. As he has consumed alcohol, it will slow him down thus making his reaction to things slower than usual. His intellect will be affected as the intoxication will affect his judgement and John will be unable to make formed decisions as he wouldn’t be able to take things seriously. His perception and views on things around him will be altered as he is unable to think straight.
THEMES Addiction as hunger James has been addicted to drugs and alcohol for a long time, where it has become his source of food, the only thing he feeds on. When he enters rehab, the food he eats is taken away from him. All he thinks about in the beginning of the book is what is he going to feed on. This intense hunger concealed all sane thoughts. In the clinic, the first few meals, James ate insanely but still found it hard; shoving the food down his throat with his fingers.
Jon is in the late thirties (" for someone pushing the forty") which is in a good physical condition, but still overweight. Jon seems to be having a lot of problems. He has problems with his girlfriend and he also seems to be having a problem with the bottle. "He poured more gin, but no matter how much he swallowed it was never enough" On the whole trip Jon consumes
\Admits Friday night best chance to avoid test Took some drug tests knowing he could fail • Johns's brother 'thought Joey was dead' RUGBY league legend Andrew Johns says taking drugs when he was playing Friday night matches gave him a better chance of avoiding the NRL’s drug-testers. After news broke yesterday that the former international was caught in London with an ecstasy tablet in his pocket, Johns has revealed he was in the grip of drugs and alcohol throughout his whole playing career and was battling depression. In an interview on the Nine Network's The Footy Show, Johns said he played the biggest games in his career with the thought of taking drugs racing through his mind and how he would play Russian roulette with drug testers.
He started playing for other people until he started his own band in 1949. All social factors surrounding Ray were not good. On November 14, 1961, Charles was arrested on a narcotics charge in an Indiana hotel room, where he waited to perform. The detectives seized heroin, marijuana,and other items. Charles, then 31, stated that he had been a drug addict since the age of 16.
The drug addicts lose all respect for themselves and these addictions end up taking over their lives. Maybe the addicts are right when they say the addictions are their own fault and aren’t a reflection towards their troubled childhood. Addicts may just get caught up in the wrong situation at the wrong time and end up getting addicted to a drug just to fit in with peers. Drug addictions will create emotional distress no matter whose fault it
Meth addiction harms the body in a horrific way, the drug is made up of chemicals that can kill a person also leading to the addiction, and in order to get over the drug it’s a continuous battle the person must want it for themself, and have the strength over their own mind they can’t be weak or they will fail and relapse. In the beginning use of Meth there are not many changes in appearance, but within a couple months a person’s whole appearance can be changed. The body tends to get very thin, and for most people their skin starts getting picked at leaving open wounds. The appearance can change so fast that the person may not even be recognizable. Not only does the appearance change so do the mind.
Because heroin suppresses the central nervous system, the user experiences "cloudy" mental function. Users will begin to breathe at a slower rate and their breathing can reach a point of respiratory failure. Long-Term Effects Repeated and chronic heroin users who fail to use sterile technique or share equipment will begin to experience the long-term effects of such practices: * Infection of the heart lining and valves, normally due to lack of sterile technique. * Liver disease - approximately 70-80% of new hepatitis C infections in the U.S. each year are the result of injection drug use, and even sharing snorting straws has been linked to hepatitis
College of Bad Habits The essay “The Perils of Higher Education” written by Steven Kotler, talks about the habits that students follow in college that may end up hurting them in the process. The article states the issues students have from lack of sleep from studying, partying, not eating right, consuming alcoholic beverages, and smoking. Their memory lacks from not sleeping at least 8 hours. They stay up late partying. They don’t eat right which may lead to Alzheimer’s down the road.
Many of the long term side effects have not made their appearances but they will soon enough. From what doctors have seen in the past 10 years we only know the side effects of a sudden overdose in the drug. The side effects in overdose are symptoms of tourettism, aggression, depression, high blood pressure, delusions, sweating, vomiting, dehydration, and unexplained muscle pain. We will only know the full danger of Adderall and similar drugs 50 years from now. When people who take the drug now become extremely dependent on it, and they are so old that their body will not allow them to take it.