What Is Drug Abuse?

Do you have friends, relatives or close people who had some problems with drugs or alcohol, but no longer do? The Partnership at Drug Free Organization and Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Service conducted a national survey and they found that 23,50 million American adults are overcoming an active involvement in the use and abuse of some substances. Drug abuse is a global problem because this destroys addicts and their environment. For many decades drug abuse were cataloged such as criminals, rascals, and unscrupulous people. Nowadays scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists argue that drug abuse has a ship to the disease of addiction. Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance such as alcohol, cocaine, …show more content…
Amanita Muscaria which is a fungus used as a hallucinogen by many indigenous peoples of Siberia, can be an alternate method of achieving a trance state. The tuyona, native of Europe, Northern Africa and Asia, is a plant that they use in rituals for having a feeling of inebriation which was the favorite drink of 19th Century Bohemian artists. The kava-lactones: There is the word "Kava" is used to refer to the plant and the beverage which is used for religious, medical, political, and social purposes because it has a calming effects for rituals in tribes of the Western Pacific. Peyote whose principal component is the mescaline, has been used by indigenous peoples from Mexico and America who argue that this plant has the power of helping in deep introspection and insight in the metaphysical. The cannabis plant has an ancient history of rituals as a trance inducing drug in India for sadhus (Itinerant ascetics), and Rastafarians use it as praise to their good, and some historians believe that cannabis was used as a religious sacrament by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Some effects are mild euphoria, relaxation, stress reduction, increased sensuality, among others effects. Other drugs with religious connotation are Magic Mushrooms, Salvia