Drug addiction

Short characteristic of a disease

Drug addiction is the use by the person of narcotic substances from which he falls into dependence and feels an insuperable attraction to drugs.

Drugs – the substances operating on a human body in the form of drug intoxication and having characteristic side effects. They cause accustoming, both psychological, and physical. In breaks between their receptions, the addict has a disease state, so-called, withdrawal pains.

Drugs allow the person to receive temporary illusion of pleasure.

Narcotic euphoria – short, it lasts from one to five minutes, and in the rest of the time, within from 1 to 3 hours, there comes the relaxation period which gradually passes into a condition of a somnolence, a dream and nonsense.

Symptoms of drug addiction

Drug addiction – is artful. The accustoming period to drugs lasts about 6 months.

At the person doing drugs sharp differences of mood are shown, there is a change of a rhythm of a dream, appetite worsens, its usual tide of life is broken.

Drug addiction as disease, is characterized by frustration of mentality and strong thirst for reception of narcotic substances.

The addict has unstable arterial pressure, disturbance of work of digestive tract appears.

Pupils at the person doing drugs – unnaturally narrow or, on the contrary, are considerably expanded, with painful gloss. A look – foggy. Face skin – pale, with an earthy shade, hair and nails become fragile.

The unpleasant smell from a mouth speaks about that, the addict got hooked on hemp. Constant cough or rhinitis is caused by heroin reception.

Bad outward belongs to symptoms of drug addiction. There is a carelessness and slovenliness in clothes, thirst for black color.

Treatment of drug addiction

Treatment of drug addiction is carried out in stationary conditions, under observation of specialists and psychologists, in a complex and individually.

Basis of treatment is removal of physical and psychological dependence on drugs.

Work on an organism detoxication, recovery of a nervous system, dream is carried out, measures for maintenance of cardiovascular system are taken.

Treatment of drug addiction – long and difficult process which result completely depends on the patient who is adjusted on treatment that happens extremely seldom.

Prevention of drug addiction

Treatment of drug addiction often does not yield positive takes therefore prevention of drug addiction – one of the most important ways of its prevention.

And it is necessary to begin with a family where the example of parents and their sober way of life have important value.

Trusting relationships, open communication between children and parents – guarantee of prevention of drug addiction. Indifference, rough and dictatorial practice in the family relations do the child unprotected from bad temptations including from drugs. If at the teenager problems in communication become ripe, psychological trainings can give him isolation, efficient help.

Have no right to stand aside and educational institutions where prevention of drug addiction has to be carried out in an available form, create a firm position of refusal of drugs at teenagers.

This work – a constant and with involvement as it is possible bigger number of youth. It is carried out in the form of conversations, lectures and displays of movies.

Executive power of each region is obliged to organize necessary promotion of a healthy lifestyle through mass media.

Besides, prevention of drug addiction includes toughening of the legislation, improvement of society, reduction of contacts with drugs.

Drug addiction problem

Drug addiction extends quickly. Now there is practically no region where cases of the use of drugs would not be fixed.

The problem of drug addiction is that the person who uses drugs never recognizes himself as the addict. He does not ask for the help physicians though harmful substances already negatively affect its organism, ruining mentality and health.

Daily large number of people, for the sake of obtaining novelty of feelings, is tried by drugs. In an effect, at emergence in them of vital difficulties, they reach for these drugs again that, at least temporarily to leave from reality, to forget about all the failures. They do not understand that in this case they have a new problem – a drug addiction problem.

And it will proceed until cruel lessons of life do not show to this person that such existence – is inadmissible that the drug addiction problem which arose at it has to be urgently eliminated. But it will disappear only when he, it is realized, asks for medical care.

But it happens extremely seldom therefore drug addiction continues to prosper.

Drug addiction among teenagers

Drug addiction - one of global social problems attracting to itself various segments of the population.

The drug addiction among teenagers joining the ranks, generally from among the children living in dysfunctional families increases.

Teenage drug addiction is a terrible social phenomenon at which life of a young, weak organism breaks.

In the presence of not created mentality, teenagers easily do drugs, without knowing or without thinking of effects which expect them in the near future. Being under the influence of drugs, they do not understand that drug addiction ruins their lives.

Younger generation, giving in to huge desire to be distinguished from the peers, follows a way of drug addiction that in most cases leads to commission of crimes.

Drug addiction generates teenage crime that is a big problem for all society.

Teenage drug addiction surely enters youth life, crippling them morally and physically.

It is very difficult to cure the teenage addict because he likes to be in drug intoxication when before it all problems disappear, it is not required to be strong and to be responsible for the acts.  Therefore such teenager does not wish to live in a different way and in every possible way avoids treatment.

Drug addiction among teenagers has to be if it is not eradicated absolutely, then is considerably reduced by the general joint efforts of all members of society.

Harm of drug addiction

Harm of drug addiction – is big! It consists in causing by addicts threat to society and each separate family.

Drug addiction leads the person to degradation, destruction of the personality, diseases and death. Among them – a large number of patients with AIDS.

Addicts, generally lead a criminal life where theft and prostitution prospers. They bring many troubles and sufferings to the close people.

To catch drugs, addicts in every way try to get money that often leads them to criminal actions.

Therefore big harm of drug addiction consists also in increase in crime. Robberies, stealings of cars, robberies, violence, the murders committed in a condition of drug intoxication every day increase sad statistics.

Harm of drug addiction is looked through also that young people are subject to it.

And it means that drug addiction affects the health of future generations and can lead to bystry aging of society.