Drugs

 Drugs

Drug abuse

Drug abuse is a serious public health problem that affects communities and families all over the world. What is more terrifying, a great percent of drug takers are youngsters who can’t yet understand the risk they are involved in. Each year drug abuse results in millions of illnesses and injuries among people.

       

Social problems

Major social problems take place due to drug taking. Here we can talk about drugged driving, violence, stress and child abuse. The problem also leads to homelessness and crime. Drugs harm unborn babies and destroy families.

          

What a drug is

A drug is considered to be any chemical that is not food though affects your body. There are such drugs as medicines and painkillers which are prescribed by a doctor and are available in pharmacies but the other type which is man-made is really dangerous.

These include amphetamines, anabolic steroids, marijuana, inhalants, cocaine and heroin. They cause irreversible changes in a person’s brain and very often lead to losing the feeling of self control and the ability to understand anything. It’s an absurd that nowadays people invent drugs in huge quantities especially for human consumption.

                    

Possible reasons

It’s hard to say why people start taking drugs. One of the main reasons, probably, is the desire to escape the reality. They try to change the way they feel, think or behave. However, everything that happens after taking drugs is just a miracle.

         

Types of treatmen

There are different types of treatment for drug abuse but the best is to prevent drug addiction in the first place. One of the ways to do it is to implement prevention programs into our everyday life which would involve schools, families and the media. But the most important thing is to be aware of the consequences of drug taking.

           

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