DRUG ABUSE

INTRODUCTION

Drug addiction is marked by a compulsive craving for a substance. Successful treatment methods vary and include psychological counseling or psychotherapy and detoxification programs.

Some people use drugs to relieve stress and to forget about their problems. Genetic factors may predispose other individuals to drug

addiction. Environmental factors such as peer pressure, especially in young people, and the availability of drugs.

Environmental factors such as peer pressure, especially in young people, and the availability of drugs also influence people to abuse drugs.

The real effects of drugs to the users affects their health and their logical thinking. The users in the first place are the main victim of drugs

second are their family and because of its effects to their attitude and their habit.

Drugs are commonly known as the house wrecker.

The users are

pushed to their limits. They used drugs in able to avoid their problems in

life. They used it in able to erase all their insecurities in life. The drug users are the main source of crimes in the country. 70% of the drug users are living in squatters area, or we can say they belong to poor families while 30% of them belongs to average one. They are commonly affected by Drug independent because of their main goal of forgetting. Most of the drug users are teen-agers, and they are driven for their curiosity, while most of them depend on drugs in able to forget their problems.

Drugs change a person in no time. A person can be hot headed, and irritated. Drug abuse can cause a wide variety of adverse physical reactions. Long-term drug use may damage the heart, liver and brain. Drug abusers may suffer from malnutrition if they habitually forget to eat, cannot afford food, or eat foods lacking the proper vitamins and minerals. Individuals who abuse injectable drug risk contracting infections such as hepatitis and HIV from dirty needles or needles shared with other infected abusers.

One of the most dangerous effects of illegal drug use is the potential for overdosing that is, taking too large or too strong a dose for the bodys systems to handle. A drug overdose may cause an individual to lose

consciousness and to breath inadequately. Without treatment and individual may die from a drug overdose.

The illegal use of drugs was once considered a problem unique to residents of poor, urban neighborhoods. Today, however, people from all

economic levels, in both cities and suburbs abuse drugs.

One can avoid depending on drugs.

This ability comes from within.

One should be over with his problems, finding the best solution to his problems and prevention of drugs can help him most. Communication

between family members is also advice, in able to avoid curiosity about drugs.

Drug, substance that affects the function of living cells, used in medicine to diagnose, cure, prevent the occurrence of diseases and disorders, and prolong the life of patients with incurable conditions.

Since 1900 the availability of new and more effective drugs such as antibiotics, which fight bacterial infections, and vaccines, which prevent diseases caused by bacteria and viruses, has increased the average Americans life span from about 60 years to about 75 years. Drugs have vastly improved the quality of life. Today, drugs have contributed to the eradication of once widespread and sometimes fatal diseases such as poliomyelitis and smallpox.