addiction is a deadly but preventable disease ounce your addicted to something whether its drugs, alcohol etc... it is very hard to get off but we can stop this by simply minimizing everyone's exposure to these addictive substances. Most addicts are addicts because they did drugs at a young age. When your brain is still developing as a child and you abuse substances like drugs and alcohol it teaches your brain to except these foreign chemicals. Parents need to teach kids the consequences of drugs and give them attention because most of today's addicts were neglected as children and want to use these dangerous substances to cover up the pain.