Drug abuse in adolescents

Drug abuse in adolescents

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Drugs: narcotics, psychotropic substances and dangerous drugs.
Drugs: narcotics, psychotropic and other addictive substances.


Drug abuse: drug use outside of medical purposes without the supervision of a physician and a violation of law. (Act no 5 and 22 in 1997).

why are abused?
Drugs provide a soothing effect, the relief of pain, sleep, create euphoria, fly, get high.

Dangers of drug abuse

• Drugs cause addiksi and tolerance
• Damage the brain that can not be restored
• Facilitate transmission of HIV /AIDS, Hepatitis B and C
• Psychiatric disorders
• Facilitate the fall in criminality

How drug abuse

• Ingested
• Through cigarette
• Injected
• smoked

Type of drug

• Marijuana (canabis sativa) or marijuana,
• Heroin / putauw
• Amphetamin, ecstasy
• Alcohol
• Sedative-hipnotika Substance (Benzodiazepam) BK, Lexo, MG, Rohyp
• Solvent / Inhalasia

Early detection
Efforts to identify those factors that can trigger someone experiencing drug abuse problems, and recognize the early signs of those affected by drug abuse disorders.

Factors that may encourage a person to engage in drug abuse

• the substance
• the individual
• the environment

Potential USER
That is, those who have not become users or engage in drug abuse but has the risk to be involved in these things without ~ CANDIDATES FOR USERS.

This high-risk groups can be distinguished on several levels:

• Individuals at high - risk
• High-risk families
• High-risk environment

high-risk individuals:

• Negative self-concept,inferior,not confident
• Is easily frustrated / desperate,impatientin doing something and run to the drug
• Too dare to take risks / oppose rules of antisocial behavior
• History of hyperactivity in childhood, borderline IQ
• Smoking at an early age

High-risk families :

• Ineffective communication
• Attitude is very authoritarian or permissive
• The attitude is not consistent between the two parents
• Less harmonious family
• One / both parents become abusers / drug dependence

High-risk environment

• The existence of a peer group that uses drugs
• The existence of youth leaders / youth who use drugs
• Lack of consistent law enforcement

Teenagers use drugs, because

• Feeling troubled
• Pressure comrades
• Rebellion / protest
• Want to know
• Adventurous spirit
• Imitating adults
• The belief that one

Early Symptoms of Drug abuse
Symptoms can be observed according to the stages abuse.

experimental phase (USE)
Dependence has not been visible physical / psychological, but can occur due to intoxication or panic reaction
ignorance.

Phase addiction (abuse)
Symptoms are easily recognized according to the type DRUGS

Changes in attitudes and behavior

• Truant,
• Declining achievement,
• Lie,
• Do not make the task,
• often emotional,
• Angry easily offended, often suspicious,
• Changes in sleep patterns,
• Changes in choosing friends,
• Avoid meeting with family members

Physical changes
Depending on the type of drugs, generally:

when using:
stagger, tough talk, apathy, looking sleepy and aggressive

Long-term effects:
hygiene / unkempt personal hygiene, former injection in the arm / other body parts, symptoms of other diseases (complications)

overdose:
shortness of breath, heart / pulse is slow, the skin felt cold, slow breaths ïƒ stopped / killed

withdrawal :
Eyes and runny nose, yawning continue, diarrhea, muscle aches / bone pain throughout the body, lazy bath (opiates), depression (amfetamine), seizures (alcohol / sedative)


Drug abuse prevention for teens

• Loving and grateful for life as a gift the Almighty
• Every person has its advantages and disadvantages of self respectively, Intersection identify the strengths and weaknesses, develop and realize the positive things and leave the negatives to yourself
• Everyone has problems in his life, face and solve, not be avoided especially with the run to the drug abuse
• Drug abuse is not settle the problem but aggravate the problem.