Be aware...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/04/23/super.pills.ap/index.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23479808-details/The%20anorexic%20professor%20who%20ate%20so%20little%20her%20heart%20was%20the%20size%20of%20a%20child's/article.do
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7365192.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/us/06abuse.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209992946-aOqTiN7OWhJbrA0b4rJv8g

I don’t think that drugs or alcohol addictions are attached to depressions or serious psychological problems. Nowadays people tend to look for the easiest way to live and handle problems of any kind. Rosemary Pope for example, a known academic with years of success and studies died at 49 years of anorexia nervosa. I’m sure she had problems, like anyone else; but as a successful person why did she suffer from a fatal addiction? Why every day do millions and millions of people around the world kill themselves slowly by making use of drugs, pills or alcohol? I think that we don’t know how to handle problems or depression. If somebody has a problem, the idea of dealing with it, talking about it and facing the consequences sounds like too much to handle. Because of this, many people turn into drugs to “deal” with the problems and making them “disappear”.

What makes me more concerned about any kind of addiction is that it has begun to affect people from all ages. In the UK, girls from 11 to 19 have tried to harm themselves and in the US substance abuse centers are aware of the increase in number of addicted patients over 50. A report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration conclude that by 2020 there will be 4.4 million older substance abusers. These numbers are really high and we should start to do something now…

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