DATE PUBLISHED: 2022

AUTHOR: WEBMD LLC

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/drug-abuse-addiction#1

No matter your age, race, background, or the reason you started drugs in the first place, you will never be alone. People from all sorts of life experience problems with illegal drugs. Some of those common uses of using illegal drugs is to ease problems, stress, anxiety, or depression. Although it isn’t just illegal drugs that cause abuse and addiction. You can get addicted to prescribed painkillers, sleeping pills, and tranquilizers. Studies have shown that second to marijuana is prescription painkillers are the most abused drugs in the U.S. There are some risk factors for drug addictions. Such as, family history of addiction, abuse or neglect of traumatic experiences, mental disorders, early use of drugs, or even smoking or injecting a drug may increase your addictive potential.