Medicines That Promote Health
Understanding the addiction Cycle
Consequences of Drug Use
Health Risks of Stimulants
Health Risks of Depressants
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These medicines reduce rapid cell growth and help stop the spread of cancer cells.
What are Cancer treatment medicines used for?
100
The body of the substance abuser needs more and more of the drug to get the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
100
People who experiment with drugs tend to lose control more readily than those who do not. This tendency can lead to violence. Substance abuse is also a major factor in violent crimes, suicides, and both unintentional and intentional deaths. Drug use can lead to relaxing of inhibitions. As a result, drug users are at risk for engaging in sexual activity, which can lead to unintended pregnancy and exposure to STDs.
What are Consequences for the Individual?
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are drugs that speed up the central nervous system. Some foods, such as coffee, tea, and cola, contain small amounts of a stimulant called caffeine. The nicotine in tobacco products is a stimulant. The most dangerous of illegal stimulants are cocaine, amphetamines and methamphetamine.
What is The risk of Stimulants?
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belong to a family of sedative-hypnotic drugs, or drugs that induce sleepiness. Barbiturate use can result in mood changes, sleeping more than normal, and coma. Barbiturates are illegally to produce a feeling of intoxication and to counteract the effects of stimulants. Combining barbiturates with alcohol can be fatal.
What is Barbiturates
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Many people rely on antihistamines and other medications to reduce the sneezing, itchy and watery eyes. And runny nose that often accompany allergies.
What are allergy medicines used for?
200
A condition in which a person believes that a drug is needed in order to feel good or to function normally, psychological dependence develops over time. The user has a continuing desire to take the drug for its effect.
What is Psychological dependence?
200
Teens possessing, using, manufacturing (growing), or selling drugs are committing the crime of illicit drug use. Being arrested leads to court fines and legal fees. Some states automatically suspend the driving privileges of minors convicted of drug offense. Suspension from school, jail time, and probation also are consequences of arrest and conviction.
What are Legal Consequences?
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is a rapid acting powerful highly addictive stimulant that interrupts normal functioning of the central nervous system. Cocaine is a white powder extracted from the leaves of the coca plant. Cocaine users can experience a surge of self-confidence and euphoria, a feeling of intense well-being or elation. Effects of cocaine use can last from 20 minutes to several hours
What is The risk of Cocaine?
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are depressants that reduce muscular activity, coordination, and attention span. Tranquilizers are prescribed to relieve anxiety, muscle spasms, sleeplessness, and nervousness. When tranquilizers are overused, physiological and psychological dependence occurs. Withdrawal from tranquilizers causes severe shaking. In extreme cases, coma or death can result.
What is Tranquilizers
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Some medicines maintain health by regulating body chemistry. Insulin is used to treat diabetes. Asthma sufferers use inhalers to relieve the swelling of bronchial tubes. Cardiovascular medicines are taken to regulate blood pressure, normalize irregular heartbeat, or regulate other functions of the cardiovascular system
What are Body-regulating medicines used for?
300
A person who experiences the severe effects of withdrawal when he or she stops taking a drug has a physiological dependence, a condition in which the user has a chemical need for the drug. Symptoms of withdrawal can include nervousness, insomnia, severe nausea, headaches, vomiting, chills, and cramps. In some cases, death can result.
What is Physiological dependence?
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Teens who become involved with drugs lose their interest in healthy activities and have little time for friends who value a drug-free lifestyle. Family members have a responsibility to be aware of the warning signs of drug use and to encourage the individual to seek professional help
What are Consequences for Family and Friends?
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is an even more dangerous form of cocaine. Also known as crack cocaine, rock or freebase rock, crack is one of the most deadly drugs available. It is a very pure form of cocaine that reaches the brain second after being smoked or injected. Once in the blood, it causes heart rate and blood pressure to soar to dangerous levels. Mixing cocaine and alcohol is extremely dangerous. These substances are combined in the liver, increasing the risk of death from liver failure.
What is The risk of Crack?
400
These medications help normalize brain chemistry. For example, mood disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. Proper medication can help people with these problems live healthy, productive lives.
What are Antidepressant and antipsychotic medicines used for?
400
Anyone who takes drugs risks one of the most frightening side effects: addiction, a physiological or psychological dependence on a drug. Addiction causes persistent, compulsive use of a substance know by the user to be harmful. Addiction causes persistent, compulsive use of a substance have great difficulty stopping without professional intervention.
What is Addiction?
400
– Substance abuse can cause considerable harm to developing fetuses, infants, and children of drug users. A pregnant female who uses drugs passes the drug through the placenta to her unborn child. The baby may be spontaneously aborted or born with birth defects, behavioral problems, or an addiction. If either parent is using injected drugs, the baby may be born with HIV caused by the sharing of infected needles by one or both parents. A nursing mother who uses drugs passes these substances through breast milk to her child. Babies born to mothers who used depressants or other drugs during pregnancy may be physically dependent on drugs and show sever withdrawal symptoms at birth.
What are Consequences for Babies and Children?
400
are stimulants used in prescription medicines to reduce fatigue and drowsiness and to suppress the appetite. The easily developed tolerance to amphetamines causes a user to ingest more of the substance. Regular use of amphetamines can result in t witching, irregular heartbeat, paranoia, and heart and blood vessel damage.
What is The risk of Amphetamines?
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Drug abuse affects the nation’s economy. According the National Drug Intelligence Center, illegal drugs cost the American economy $193,096, 930 in 2011. The costs result from lost work hours and productivity caused by drug related illness, jail time, accidents, and deaths: health costs and legal fees resulting from illegal drug use; and law enforcement costs and insurance costs from drug-related damages, injuries and deaths.
What are Costs to Society?
500
Meth is a stimulant used in treating certain diseases, including Parkinson’s disease and obesity. It is a white, odorless powder that easily dissolves in alcohol or water. Because it is produced in makeshift labs, the drug is readily available, but its quality is uncertain. This drug has been identified as one of the many dangerous and illegal substances called club drugs, drugs associated with concerts and all-night parties called rave. Meth may provide a short-term feeling of euphoria. Often the use of this drug results in depression, paranoia, damage to the central nervous system, increased heart rate and blood pressure, and damage to brain cells. It can also cause death.
What is The risk of Methamphetamine, or Meth?
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