Drug addiction is the silent disease that has rooted up in almost every one’s life. Plenty of people are getting addicted to drugs and ruin their life. Most of the people are urged to get addicted for drugs to have pleasure. Habitual use of drugs will affect one’s life in different ways.

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Drugs have attracted every people of all age, races and society. One of the main factors for drug abuse is the society. Social factors have targeted mainly the adults. Since adolescence is the period where a individual feels the change in behavior, thinking and social levels. As the y come across the new environment in day to day life they become addicted to the drugs. At this age, they want to overcome the stress due to family members, change in their physical and mental health. This motivates the adults to become addicted to drugs and alcohols.

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Drug addiction greatly affects the central nervous system. Treating the drug addiction is reasonably difficult because it affects the frontal cortex of the brain by the negative mechanism which acts as the site for decision making and behavior. Cognition and behavior of a person is controlled by the frontal cortex of the brain. It is found that the frontal cortex is weaker due to drug addiction whereas the normal individual brain was healthy. Drugs take over the activity of brain and alter them and they do not substitute the occupation of the brain.

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Personality is formed by our action and reactions. The actions depend upon our habits in our involuntary mind. Drug addiction significantly modifies the personality and behavior of the abuser. Generally personality disorder/defects are characterized by the rigid behavior and worse reactions related to the society that messes up the individual’s skill. Personality defects due to drug addiction can be clustered into three groups.

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Benzodiazepines are potent psychotropic drugs that have dethroned barbiturates in a number of ways. They are mainly used as muscle relaxants and anti anxiety drugs. Commonly used benzodiazepines are diazepam, flurazepam, chlordiazepoxide, nitrazepam, lorazepam, alprazolam, etc.

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