Drug addiction is a problem all around the world that affects families,friends and strangers. It all starts with one puff,snort or drink. There are several diffrent drugs in the world that have affected people with drug abuse. There are two diffrent commoin drug abuses. Long and Short term drug abuse. There are also many diffrent drugs. Pain pills are a very common addicition in society these days. Most pain pill drug addictions are long term. A long Term pill abuse addiction puts more stress and strain on an indivisual. There are a number of long-term physical and emotinal effects or addiction that can turn a man or women into someone completely diffrent. The top pill people use for pill addiction is oxycotin. People who abuse oxycotin …show more content…
crush the time-release form of the drug and thn snort it or inject it to cause a strong morphine- like high. The main side effect oxycodone has on a person is respiratory distress. Since oxycotins work by slowing down the respitory and centrel nervous systems, you may exsperience respiratory distress if you take it for a long time or take higher doses of the drug. Symptoms of respritory distress include difficulty breathing, light headedness, and dizziness from lack of oxygen. Meth is another drug that people have an addiction to.
Crystal methhas ben one of the fastest growing addiction known unlike alchol and some other drugs, Crystal meth does not normally have negative affects on a person firsst starting to using it. The exception to this would be the rapid heartbeat and perhaps anxiety. Crystal meth effects on the brain can be lasting. As the crystal meth leaves the body, the brain becomes capable of managing normal feelings. Depression and unstable moods are a challenge for recovering meth addicts, which is why addicts recovering from the substance have one of the highest relapse rates 52 % in the USA. Many people tryimg crystal meth for the first time become addicted to the substance. Most people inject the drug 9 out of 10 people that inject the drug automatically become addicted to meth. One of 33 teens in the USA have admitted to using meth. A 2005 national survey on drug use and health reports that 10.4 million people 12 and older have exsperimented with the drug at some point in …show more content…
life. Alcohol is another substance that easily addictive.
Alchol abuse on the less severe end of the alcohol disorder spectrum, affects about 10% of women and 20% of men in the United States most being in the mid teens. Almost 2,000 people under 21 years of age die a year in car crashes in which underage drinking is involved. Alcohol is involved in nearly half of all violent deaths involving teens. Some signs of a drinking problem include drinking alone, to escape problems, or the sole pupose of getting drunk; hiding alcohol in oidd places; getting irratated or craving alcohol when you are unable to drink alcohol. The long-term effects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism can be devastating and even life threatening being an alcoholic can damage ur organ syatem. With treatment, about 70% of people with alcoholism are able to decrease the number of days they consume alcohol and improve their overall health status within six months. Many people are killed by drunk crivers. In 2011, a total of 1,140 children age 14 and younger were killed in motor vehicle crashes. Of those 1,140 fatalities, 181 occurred in alcohol impaired driving crashes. In texas there were a total of 2,998 cashes in 2011 1,450 48% of thse were drunk driving related. even though alcool isnta drug it can do more to others than
yourself. In Conclusion Even if you think ur not an addict becuase u have only smoked drugs or drank a few beers a time or two u can become an addict very easily and not only hurt urself but put others in danger. It s way safer to stay drug and alcohol free.
It is not uncommon to view drug addiction as a problem that is created and maintained by the drug addicts. Most of
Do we really know how much damage alcohol can do to a person? Alcohol becomes an addiction. Alcohol has its benefits but it also has its downsides. It’s known that alcohol has it’s benefits but if you drink “moderately”. Alcohol can destroy your life and ruin your family. People tend to abuse alcohol, people make bad choices when it comes to alcohol. Alcohol makes you act a certain way when you're intoxicated. Alcohol can cause liver damage and many other health problems. The background of this essay is that I can relate to alcohol usage. Alcohol creates emotional, physical, mental and family problem to a person that abuses alcohol usage.
Opioids are used as pain relievers and although it does the job, there are adverse side effects. Opioids are frequently used in the medical field, allowing doctors to overprescribe their patients. The substance can be very addicting to the dosage being prescribed to the patient. Doctors are commonly prescribing opioids for patients who have mild, moderate, and severe pain. As the pain becomes more severe for the patient, the doctor is more likely to increase the dosage. The increasing dosages of the narcotics become highly addicting. Opioids should not be prescribed as pain killers, due to their highly addictive chemical composition, the detrimental effects on opioid dependent patients, the body, and on future adolescents. Frequently doctors have become carless which causes an upsurge of opioids being overprescribed.
Alcohol is causing too many deaths. Each year, excessive drinking is responsible for the deaths of 80,000 people in the United States, 4,700 of which are young Americans (6). Alcohol by itself is dangerous; this danger is (made greater) when individuals consuming it are allowed to drive a vehicle. Research has shown that a pedestrian struck by a vehicle moving at 40 miles an hour has a fifty percent chance of getting killed as a result of the impact (9). A distracted or impaired driver will not be able to react as fast as a non-impaired driver, meaning a drunk driver is a more dangerous driver than a sober one.
Drinking at a young age leads to alcoholism if one is not careful. Alcoholism is a disease that is hard for someone to overcome. Studies have been done that have shown people who have alcohol related relatives are four times more likely to become alcoholics themselves. Alcoholism can be broken down into two categories, acute and long term. Acute alcohol use is when someone drinks occasionally. Long term use of alcohol is when someone has to have a drink every day, or when you can’t go a day without drinking, which is considered alcohol dependence another word for alcoholism. Alcoholism causes a variety of social problems that include loss of work productivity and violence. Studies have shown that fewer adolescents are drinking but when they do drink they tend to binge drink. Binge drinking leads to alcoholism. Another study has shown that when people are told not to do something they are more than likely going to do the opposite. There should not be more laws against drinking, but instead more programs to teach to teach teens how to drink responsibly. Dr. Dale Archer says, “This would focus, not only on drunk driving, but also binge drinking, brain damage, the deleterious health effects of alcohol abuse and how to drink in a responsible manner.”(2/3) There are two ways to treat alcoholism, detox or rehab. Most treatment for young adults who have a drinking problem is mainly an intervention, instead of the more
The rate of death due to prescription drug abuse in the U.S. has escalated 313 percent over the past decade. According to the Congressional Quarterly Transcription’s article "Rep. Joe Pitt Holds a Hearing on Prescription Drug Abuse," opioid prescription drugs were involved in 16,650 overdose-caused deaths in 2010, accounting for more deaths than from overdoses of heroin and cocaine. Prescribed drugs or painkillers sometimes "condemn a patient to lifelong addiction," according to Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This problem not only affects the lives of those who overdose but it affects the communities as well due to the convenience of being able to find these items in drug stores and such. Not to mention the fact that the doctors who prescribe these opioids often tend to misuse them as well. Abusing these prescribed drugs can “destroy dreams and abort great destinies," and end the possibility of the abuser to have a positive impact in the community.
Understanding this problem begins with education about the type of drugs being abused. Opiates, or opioids, are a type of drug that relieves pain. Painkillers interact with nerve endings in the brain, stopping them from sending the message to your brain that you are in pain. Taking this medication results in lose of pain and a temporary high. If a patient takes pain pills for too long, they can begin to form a tolerance to lower doses, causing the physician to have to continually raise the amount being put into their bodies. After extended use, opiates can cause iatrogenic addiction, “most likely to occur with long-term use and/or high does of a prescription drug” (Kendal1 l75). Even though opiates have been used to treat pain in the medical field for years, research is indicating negative side effects. Some of these, interesting enou...
Drug abuse and addiction are issues that affect people everywhere. However, these issues are usually treated as criminal activity rather than issues of public health. There is a conflict over whether addiction related to drug abuse is a disease or a choice. Addiction as a choice suggests that drug abusers are completely responsible for their actions, while addiction as a disease suggests that drug abusers need help in order to break their cycle of addiction. There is a lot of evidence that suggests that addiction is a disease, and should be treated rather than punished. Drug addiction is a disease because: some people are more likely to suffer from addiction due to their genes, drug abuse brought on by addictive behavior changes the brain and worsens the addiction, and the environment a person lives in can cause the person to relapse because addiction can so strongly affect a person.
There is a perception that the use of alcohol usually results in negative consequences, such negativity can result in long term medical problems which may consist of strokes and liver diseases to short term and social problems such as behavior which is out of the norm and more significantly, crime. NCADD stated that about 3 million violent crimes...
According to The Foundation for a Drug-Free World, the risk of death due to a vehicle accident is 11 times higher when a driver is under the influence of alcohol. On average, two in three people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime. In America, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash every 51 minutes. In addition, someone is injured in a drunk driving crash every 2 minutes. On average, eight teenagers a day die as a result of crashes that involve DUIs. Although the drunk driving rate in the United States has been cut in half, more still needs to be done to prevent deaths and injuries from alcohol related traffic crashes.
If you drink and drive, you are not only a danger to yourself but also to your passenger, other road users and pedestrians. In fact, every 30 minutes, someone in this country dies in alcohol-related crash. Every 30 minutes! And last year alone more than one million people are injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes. Alcohol is a depressant that slows down body reactions and the working of the brain. Each year drunk driving is responsible for about 25% of these deaths. The risks of drinking are alcohol-related accidents and violence. The effects of alcohol are poor coordination and slurred speech, double vision, decrease of self-control loss of consciousness and death.
Due to drinking people are being emotionally scarred, abused, and harming their own bodies. Drunk driving not only puts the drivers life in danger but also puts everybodys lives in danger. Being an alcoholic can really ruin a persons life. Alcohol is very common among minors although it is illegal and harmful to the adolescents’ body. Families of alcoholics can really suffer from emotional problems. Many people enjoy drinking but very few people understand the harm it is doing to the health of their bodies, and how it can ruin their lives. Alcohol causes a person to have negative effects on a person’s overall character, health, and morals.
Substance addiction is very addictive and can permanently affect ones life. It is one of the hardest addictions to cut and is reason for many pre-mature deaths throughout the United States. With proper aid drug addict can cut this psychological disorder and live a clean life. If someone you know is misusing drugs reach out to help him or her before addiction consumes his or her life.
There are many things in this world that can not only hurt you physically but mentally as well. And usually those things are sports (specifically football and Boxing), Crime, failure and drugs and/or some sort of an illegal substance, but there is one thing that can severely hurt someone both physically and mentally. Alcohol. The United States has a very high consumption of alcohol rate, which means the more people who consume alcohol the more people that get hurt from alcohol usage. Each year in the U.S., 80,000 people die from alcohol related causes, this statistic making alcohol consumption the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. In 2012 84.7% of people from the age 18 and older reported that they are alcohol consumers. In 2013 it estimated that Almost 20 Million Americans have an alcohol use disorder (A.K.A AUD). Drinking alcohol may be fun and cool while you are doing it but there is a cost for drinking alcohol.
Drug abuse has been a hot topic for our society due to how stimulants interfere with health, prosperity, and the lives of others in all nations. All drugs have the potential to be misapplied, whether obtained by prescription, over the counter, or illegally. Drug abuse is a despicable disease that affects many helpless people. Majority of those who are beset with this disease go untreated due to health insurance companies who neglect and discriminate this issue. As an outcome of missed opportunities of treatments, abusers become homeless, very ill, or even worst, death.