| Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| Drug Abuse Facts You Should Know |
In this article I will discuss about the drug abuse facts that you need to know. First and foremost, the definitions: drug habituation refers to the psychological dependence on certain drugs. In other words, it is a state of an individual who is physically dependent on the drugs yet not addicted to it. Drug addiction is the habitual use of a particular drug, getting hold of it and making it on one's top priority over other things. Drug abuse means the use of illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs in quantities or amounts other than indicated therein and for reasons or manner other than those for which they're directed.
If we have drug abuse problems pervading in our midst, what could be the root cause of this? Actually, the root cause/s of the problem are too diverse, ranging from teens belonging in a single parent family, some persons with dysfunctional families, teens with a record of drug abuse running in their families, even youngsters of Latin origin, and especially those economically deprived kids. Furthermore, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), they run a survey which is researching and analyzing the trends since several years and it demonstrates that there's actually a considerable diminished use of all kinds or types of drugs excluding those inhalants.
Certainly, there's been a declining drift, however, not really satisfying since there's still a vast percentage of teens and youngsters who still get themselves involved into all this. And do you know that the problems which beset with these kinds of drugs could be both indirect and direct effects? The direct outcome of these kinds of drugs can be the following: insomnia, addiction, heightened reaction time, hyper somnolence (excessive sleepiness-like falling asleep unintentionally) and etc. Nevertheless, the indirect ones are also as in the same way as hazardous and treacherous. For example, they can be easy victims to Hepatitis B and C, AIDS, and other transmittable and communicable illnesses.
So how to go about identifying and diagnosing drug abuse? Even though the diagnosis of the drug abuse is not really tough at a fully developed phase, yet the essential parts at an early phase are: the youngster is having a strange sleep pattern, becoming less and less social, weakness, anorexia, and inferior or disappointing performance at school. Okay now, let's go to the different types of drug abuse. 1. LSD-causes insomnia and hypertension. 2. Steroids-causes particular feminine transformations in men and vice versa. 3. Cocaine-harmful effects on cerebrovascular and cardiovascular systems. 4. Marijuana-causes learning and memory impairments. 5. Nicotine (in cigarettes)-widely known to be connected to cause skin, ovarian and most especially lung cancer.
Harms not just the immune system and the lungs but also the entire human body. It is by far the most destructive and the most heavily used among the other drugs. 6. Methamphetamine-its chief side effects are anorexia, being hyperactive, psychosis and insomnia. To solve the problem of drug abuse, it needs both social and medical treatment as well. |
| posted by Healthy Life @ 9:45 AM |
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