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Drug addiction can make it difficult to hold a steady job.

to show up to work on time and manage his responsibilities. While on drugs he could not function like a normal person and was disoriented, slurred his speech, and couldn’t walk properly. When he wasn’t taking the drugs he was angry and irritable. It seemed like all his mind could focus on was getting another dose of the drugs. When Joey wasn’t working, he would turn to crime to pay for his addiction. He stole money from his friends and his family, and he broke into strangers’ homes to rob them. Joey was caught during one of his illegal burglaries and ended up in jail. But even prison did not stop him from abusing drugs. One day Joey took so many pills he suffered an overdose. His mother rushed him to the hospital, and the staff was able to save his life. Even that brush with death did not cure Joey of his addiction, and he continued to abuse drugs. Eventually,

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Drug Abuse and Addiction