Description of a drug abuser

Drug Abuser: Let's start from top to bottom. His hair is all scruffy and full of lice and dandruff. It looks as if he hasn't taken a bath in months. His teeth are yellow. His eyes doesn't have life, it is always half closed. There is no white space to be seen on his eyes, it is all red, blood-shot eyes. His cheeks are drooping as well as the bottom of his eyes. His whole face doesn't have the springy, elastic feel. His mouth is half open. It's as if looking at a zombie. His nails and toe-nails are filled with dirt and jagged. He has a yellow skin and when I poke his skin it doesn't pop right back up. And when I poke him he reacts aggresively and doesn't want to be around me. When he is has a shortage of cocaine he panics have searches for it. When he finally get his cocaine and use it, it's as if he is in another world. He has no life.



Drug Misuser: A drug misuser is someone who didn't follow the directions correctly. She looks fine on the outside. Tidy hair, clean white teeth, good, elastic skin, clean nails. However, she gets irritated easily, she is aggresive, and has trouble socializing with others. She is taking sleeping pills because she can't get to sleep easily everynight. However, due to too much stress from work and the boss, she takes two sleeping pills to get a goodnight sleep. It might be ok for the first time, however, if this habit continued, she might get unwanted side effects and addictions. This type of addiction is no cause by physical means but psychologically. She feels as if she could never get to sleep with out sleeping pills and as she keeps on taking these sleeping pills her body would tolerate the pill better, which leads to overdose of these sleeping pills and cause other side effects.

Recreational drug users: A recreational drug user is some who enjoys using drugs occasionally and doesn't depend on it to relieve stress, go to sleep, or continue their lives. I imagine a recreational drug user to be a normal person who enjoys drugs only on special occasions. They do not have problems that abusers or misusers have and has a pretty good life.

Imaginary Charater:
There is a Korean factory worker who has one daughter but no wife because his wife passed away. He used to have a happy life with his family but when his wife got sick he had to spend all his money on her to cure. He didn't go wrong when his wife got sick because he had hope that she would be cured and lead a happy family with him. However, when he heard from the doctor that she could not be cured and that she has not much time left here, he started smoking and started searching for drugs that would make him happy. When he used cocaine he had a high sense of euphoria, however, as the effect of the drug wore off he felt a high sense of dysphoria, he 'crashed and burned'. As the days went by, his body was now tolerant to cocaine and he need an elevated drug doses to feel the same euphoria as last time. The indicators of using cocaine didn't wait long to appear on him. He started sweating a lot, his handsome face started to lose its 'light'. When he had no cocaine he would start to tremble and panic. However, he still loved his wife and went to the hospital everyday to visti his wife. Everytime he met his wife in the hospital, he wanted to show that everything was ok, thus not allowing him to reveal to her that he is a cocaine addict. However, due to the shortage of cocaine when visitng his wife, his body started to shake and when he grabbed her hand his hand would tremble and with the strongest will power, he would try not to shake and tremble. While his wife lied on the bed he went to fetch some Udon for the two of them, the food that both of them liked. After buying two bowls of Udon and on the way back to his wife's room his symptoms worsened and started to tremble. He dropped the two bowls of Udon on the floor. He walked into the room and told his wife that they were out of Udon so he couldn't buy them. He felt sorry for his wife. Days have passed and his wife's illness worsened and there were maybe a few hours before she left this world. As always, he was holding his wife's hand, then suddenly the wife started crying and said she is sorry. She said sorry she is sick and caused her husband to go wrong because of her, she said sorry she caused him to try he is not used to because none of his family, his parents and siblings never tried either, drugs. She said she felt him tremble when holding her hand and saw him drop the Udon bowls. Then she begged him not to take anymore drugs when she's gone. Then he and his wife started crying and hugged each other. However, just as expected his wife had left this world. It was the wife's funeral and several of the man's friends came to the funeral and stayed by his side until the very end. Now the man was broke, he spent all his money on the hospital and cocaine. He thought of suicide, however he could not leave his daughter alone in this world. He promised to his wife that he would not use cocaine anymore and he successfully got rid of the cocaine addiction, although he had some withdrawal symptoms in the first few weeks.