Drug Abuse Resistance Education

influenced by external factors, the main one being the use of drugs. Drugs such as cannabis, alcohol, heroin and ecstasy have the ability to affect a person’s well-being because they are psychoactive drugs. These drugs interfere with the chemicals in the brain, this then affects the messages those chemicals are trying to send and as a result of the changes to the brain a person’s mood and behaviour will be altered. Psychoactive drugs can cause any number of temporary mental health problems…

DISCUSSION In-depth-interviews with OTC/prescription drug abusers in Amman city provided us with a deeper overview about the problem from a different perspective. However, the main limitation to carry on this interview with is that abuser may lie and not tell the truth as on our case he said the main cause that lead him to addiction is seeing his friend dying in front of him 10 years ago , but he is addicted for more than 19 years . The following is the discussion of the main qualitative…

Drug abuse is the curse of modern sport and has infected it since the establishment of organised sport. Some of the first known incident of drug abuse date back 3 millennia (O'Brien, 2013). Usage of illegal performance augmenting drugs are not just unethical it is unfair to other participants too. Regardless disproportionate usage of drugs can be deadly and addictive. Currently according to their judiciary system many countries has strict punishment as banning for 6 months to lifelong ban.…

my pipe from the sidelines. That all changed the day my brother died of a heroin overdose. He was only 25 and had just gotten engaged the week before, he had his whole life in front of him. At that moment I thought my life is worth living without drugs…

Addiction Potential Scale vs Addiction Severity Index The Addiction Potential Scale (APS) and the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) are both used to measure substance abuse. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages, but they both work together to determine not only who has the potential to become addicted to alcohol and drugs, but also the severity of the addiction. Both are critical to assessing a person’s addiction, or likeliness to develop an addiction, so that the individual can be treated…

Students and Employees Should be Drug Tested In a survey conducted in 2014, it was found that 17 percent of students around the world were abusing drugs during the school day. That’s roughly 2.8 million students around the world and this is only counting the drug use during the school day not the drug use at home or with friends. With this many students breaking the law and abusing illegal and prescription drugs, there is a need for a plan to prevent this for occurring at this magnitude.…

ran off when she crashed. A call to 911 or access to an Opioid Overdose Rescue Kit might have saved her life. Marty abused drugs as a teenager, settling on heroin as her drug of choice. She was just 21-years-old when her parents learned she was abusing heroin. Her mother insisted she enter treatment as a condition of living at home. Marty then joined my outpatient substance abuse treatment…

Two paths: One choice Drug addiction has been a very controversial topic in America for a long time now, it is debated on whether or not we should classify this appalling habit as a choice or as an illness. Several individuals are exposed to drug abuse daily and an excessive amount of people in society live with the elected consequences of this terrible addiction. Not only does this issue affect the abuser, but also the immediate relatives and peers surrounding the abuser. Lives are stolen,…

Rehabilitation Approximately 250,000 people die annually due to an illicit drug overdose. Drug addiction is interfering with the lives of citizens and degrading nations by draining taxpayers’ dollars due to lost productivity at work, health care, and crime. While laws prohibiting drug use exist in many countries, and rehabilitation centers offer assistance to those in need of aid—it is not enough because nearly 200 million people abuse drugs worldwide. Furthermore, 90% of addicts who accept the…

Drug Addiction is an ongoing universal problem. According to an article titled “Drug Facts: Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction”, “drug addiction is a complex disease, and quitting takes more than good intentions or a strong will. In fact, because drugs change the brain in ways that foster compulsive drug abuse, quitting is difficult, even for those who are ready to do so.” In the article “Most Commonly Addictive Drugs”, the author mentions that the most commonly abused drugs are prescription…