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/^t/The situation is quite different in the case of adults. Nervous breakdowns caused by too excessive or too demanding work, loss of health or physical fittness, stress, death of a relative may result in very serious psychological problems, which have a negative impact on these people's mental health. In some cases, they may feel so overwhelmed by the sense of being unable to recover from the state that they just give in seeking help in alcohol and drugs. Also people, who have emotional problems are very likely to become drug addicts thinking that drugs will help them to make up for the abilities they lack. As concerns more practical purposes of using drugs, they are applied as very effective painkillers (ex. morphine - a drug made from opium). Adult drug addicts are mostly people who have weak, or no mental power by which they could direct their thoughts and actions, and this lack of strong will leads them to a despair and to the dangerous addiction afterwards.