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Definition
Causes
Consequences
Solutions
Bonus
100
This is the excessive consumption or misuse of a substance for the sake of its non therapeutic effects on the mind or body, especially drugs or alcohol.
What is Substance Abuse?
100
This is the addict's need to escape from emotional pain.
What are emotional issues?
100
The person may suffer from a variety of health risk like cancer, memory loss, depresses functions of the brain etc.
What is the physical effects?
100
Informing people about drug abuse via educational programmes, especially in schools.
What is Knowledge?
100
Intoxicants are drugs which are not prohibited by the government of Trinidad and Tobago
What is legal drugs?
200
This is the compulsive, excessive, and self-damaging use of habit forming drugs or substances, leading to addiction or dependence, serious physiological injury (such as damage to kidneys, liver, heart) and/or psychological harm (such as dysfunctional behaviour patterns, hallucinations, memory loss), or death.
What is Drug Abuse?
200
This refers to arguments and discord in the marriage.
What is Marital Difficulty?
200
Productivity at the workplace suffers due to absenteeism and lack of concentration.
What is employment effects?
200
Encouraging persons to say no to drug via mass media.
What is Advertising?
200
Persuasive advertisements(especially tobacco and alcohol).
What are examples of promoting legal drugs?
300
Self-medication is a human behavior in which an individual uses unprescribed drugs to treat untreated and often undiagnosed medical ailments
What is self-medication?
300
Influence from members of one's peer group.
What is Peer Pressure?
300
Expenditure in curing the various types of ailments caused by drug abuse could be put to alternative uses.
What are governmental?
300
When you suspect someone is engaged in drug abuse, you can intervene and offer to seek help for them.
What is Intervention?
300
The individual may enter in a state of depression
What is emotional consequence of drugs?
400
An unhealthy relationship with drugs or alcohol in which you use more than you would like to use, and you continue to use despite negative consequences.
What is an addiction?
400
Alcohol is used to celebrate most occasions.
What are Role Model effects?
400
Most people involved in drug abuse end up being engage in some criminal activity to sustain their drug habit.
What are legal?
400
Rehabilitation institutions may be used to assist the person.
What is Medical Help?
400
To assist in dealing with the stress of every day's life problems.
Why do people use drugs?
500
Drugs which have controls on them by a government and are illegal in certain situations (a person is not allowed to have them).
What is an illegal drug?
500
Steroids and other performance drugs.
What is enhancement of ability in sports?
500
Family life is destroyed as addicts usually engage in neglect and abuse of family members
What is Relationships?
500
Laws with severe penalties for possession of, or trafficking in drugs serve as a deterrent.
What is Legal Methods?
500
A drug abuser can be susceptible to addiction because of his/her genetic makeup.
What is the causes of drug abuse because of genetics?