drug addiction and its effect to familly

Running head : JOHNNY CASH 'S DRUG ADDITION AND THE EFFECTS IT HAD ON HIS FAMILY

Johnny Cash 's Story

Drug Addition and Its Effect To Family

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In Johnny Cash 's book , Cash , he describes his addition to prescription pills . It was scary to read that his addition started at such a young age , with the morphine he was given to relieve pain . His trail of thoughts ended up in thinking that this is the best thing ever . My reaction to this is rather sad and confused . Not

everyone who takes morphine for pain sinks into this trail of thought . I am left wondering if this was just something in his mind , something that made him think it was more pleasurable than other people

That frame of mind seems to be what lead to the addiction . Johnny Cash seem to be ok with what he was doing , not realizing the damages he had on his family . He 'd neglect his daughters and then his wife . He was being so rude just doing whatever he wanted and not really listening to those that cared for him the most . I kept thinking , if you weren 't even going to listen to the people who care about you the most , whom would he ever listen to ? It would be hard to try to tell someone not to do something to himself , and just see him doing it anyway

As the time went on , it seemed that Johnny Cash didn 't realize...