Drug Use and Abuse

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In today’s class, we will be talking about drug use and abuse. Enjoy the class!

Drug Use and Abuse

Drugs are chemical substances that affect the body and brain. They are foreign to the body and they are deliberately introduced to affect the way body functions. Drugs are meant to cure diseases and ailments.

Drug abuse, also known as substance abuse, is excessive use of a drug to create pleasurable effects on the brain. Drug abuse commonly brings about many behavioural problems and health complications. Some of the bad effects of drug abuse on the body are brain damage, death, accident, poverty, crime, etc.

Drug/substance abuse

Drug abuse is the habitual use of drugs o alter one’s mood, emotion, or state of consciousness. In other words, drug abuse means the use of drugs without medical justification. Some people abuse drugs ignorantly while some abuse it intentionally to derive pleasure, get high, stimulate or commit a crime. Commonly abused drugs are caffeine, alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, sedative drugs, codeine, nicotine, marijuana, etc.

Effects of drug abuse

Drug abuse affects both the body and mind. The effects can be either psychological or physical.

Psychological effects of drug abuse

1. Hallucination
2. Depression, anxiety, mood swing
3. Addiction
4. Loss of self-control
5. Aggressiveness
6. Mental illness

Physical effects of drug abuse

1. Abdominal pain, stomach upset, etc.
2. Damaged lungs and nostril
3. Seizures and stroke
4. Contraction of diseases such as HIV.
5. Liver failure
6. Skin rashes
7. Heart attack

Prevention of drug abuse

Drugs are meant to be used to prevent, cure, and treat illness or disease and not for pleasure purpose. Therefore, the need is required to prevent it and some of the ways of preventing it are:

1. Abstinence is the best way to prevent drug abuse or addiction
2. By inculcating coping skills. Lack of adequate skills and knowledge often leads many people to abuse drugs.
3. Using only prescribed medications by the physician.
4. Learning how to handle peer pressure.
5. Acquiring adequate and necessary knowledge and education.
6. Keeping a healthy lifestyle.
7. Abstaining from addictive drugs and substances, e.g cocaine.

 

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