Teach Your Children Self Confidence to Combat Potential Addiction

Addiction is a very complex subject that we are only starting to understand. For years and years we blamed addiction on a failing of the person's will inner strength. Finally society and health care professionals are realizing that the causes of addiction are very complex with about 50% being attributed to genetic factors.
There are several character traits of people who tend to not become addicted. One of this is self-confidence. Although it is not unknown for a person with good self-esteem to become addicted to a substance, it appears that people who have a high regard for themselves and their abilities are not nearly as easily drawn in to an addictive life style. If this correlation hold it would be prudent for parents to spend time building self confidence in children as a safe guard from addiction. If the correlation turns out to not be true there has been nothing lost because people can always use more self confidence in there lives.
One form of addiction that has not received much attention although it is becoming a massive health problem is pain killer addiction. Good, average citizens through no fault of their own are becoming addicted to certain drugs after an injury that causes severe pain. One of the most addictive pain killers is Vicodin which is actually the trade name for Hydrocodone. Hydrocodone addiction usually occurs after a person has been prescribed the drugs for pain resulting from an accident or on the job injury. Addiction is very quickly achieved if the patients stays on the drug for longer than a very short time.
This is a case where personality traits like self confidence may not play a very big role at all. The person with more self esteem may find it easier to fight the addiction but that has not been proven at this time.