Drugs and alcohol damage every part of your body.
Easy access to drugs and alcohol are common in all areas of the country. Both products are easy to obtain by teenagers who have no idea what they are getting into. Parents educate your children while they are in elementary school and before. The temptation will be there when they see friends using and it seems the popular thing to do. Give them the information now to withstand peer pressure.
Why Do People Use Drugs?
There are of course legal drugs which we all come across everyday. For example, you may take medicine when you are sick, alcohol to help you relax or coffee to help you stay awake. What we are talking about in this article are illegal drugs. You may experiment with Illegal drugs because of curiosity, because your friends are doing it or to escape boredom or worries. You may take certain drugs to change how you feel. You may believe it’s a fun or fashionable thing to do. You may continue to use a drug because you enjoy it, or because it’s part of your social life or culture. Thisis often called “recreational” drug use.
Sometimes drug use can become an important part of your life. This may be because of emotional, psychological or social problems you are experiencing. Some drugs can make you addicted or dependent, where you lose control over the drug use and feel you cannot function without the drug.
Some people use more than one drug at the same time - This is known as “Polydrug use”. Mixing drugs can be dangerous because the effects and side-effects are added together. This includes mixing illegal drugs with legal drugs such as alcohol or medication. For example, taking alcohol with cocaine increases your risk of irregular heart rhythms, heart attacks and even death.
What You Need to Know About Drugs
There are five main kinds of drugs that can change your mood or how you behave. Most of these drugs come under a law called the Misuse of Drugs Act. They are known as “controlled drugs” and are listed in different Groups called schedules. The scheduling of group drugs refers to how useful they are and what is needed to control there use. For example, Schedule One covers drugs that have no medical use – drugs such as LSD and “Designer drugs” such as Ecstasy. This is different from the UK where drugs are grouped in classes. (A,B,C) according to how the law deals with them.
Drugs, whether legal or illegal, can be harmful.
People use many different kinds of drugs. These drugs may be legal or illegal, helpful or harmful. Every drug has side-effects and risks, but some drugs have more risks than others, especially illegal drugs. Different drugs create different problems for different people. These problems need different answers. To begin to understand the problem, you have to know what is happening in the life of the person who is using and what drug they are using. In this article we look at the problem of illegal drug use. The most commonly used illegal drugs are cannabis, Ecstasy, heroin and cocaine.
Drugs are drugs, legal or illegal.
We are imprisoning people by the boat loads for selling illegal drugs. There are ruined families and deaths from this worldwide problem. Indeed it is a problem. However, what about the “legal” drug problem in our society? We used to trust and believe that the FDA protected us from legal drugs that would harm us in any way. We took it for granted that they were safe.
The drug companies have become the drug cartels of the legal drug trade, and doctors are their drug pushers. The FDA has somehow faded into the background and left us on our own. We see commercials every day on the television, where “new” drugs are being introduced for just about any physical, mental or pain imaginable. At the end of these commercials we hear warnings about how, “this drug could cause blood clots, heart failure, loss of this or that, and a multitude of other side effects INCLUDING DEATH.
We call pharmaceutical drugs, “Medications.” Many illegal drugs are also used as medication. It is the “abuse ” of certain drugs that makes them illegal. Even drugs sold over the counter such as “Bronkaid” for asthma attacks, can no longer be bought without signing for them. The Bronkaid inhalers that cost only around $12.00, have been removed completely, and one must pay out over $85.00 for a prescription one. The drug companies claim that drug dealers were making illegal drugs from the ingredients.
We are forced to buy the legal drugs when the over the counter ones are not available to us. Sure the illegal drugs can be dangerous. All drugs can be dangerous if not taken properly. Poor people and people with no health insurance cannot afford the prescriptions and are at risk of dying for lack of cheaper over-the-counter drugs. Is the only reason we warehouse drug dealers for selling “illegal” drugs, because they don’t have political connections?
