Drug Use And Drug Abuse
The Book, Drug Use and Drug Abuse, talks about the do's and don'ts and everything in between about drugs. If you turn on your TV chances are, that in less than an hour you will have seen at least one person trying to sell you a drug. Do you have a cough? Try this cough syrup. Is your foot itchy? There is a cream to cure it. Are you sleepy, do you have a headache, an upset stomach, a toothache? There are drugs available that can supposedly take care of all these problems and many more. When the average person thinks about drugs, the first thing that comes to mind is sickness. This is because one of the most important uses of drugs is in the treatment of illness. Some drugs can actually cure a disease. Antibiotics, are drugs that help fight against certain bacteria germs. Other drugs only help sick people feel better, without actually curing their illness. These drugs treat the symptoms, or sign of the disease. Most of the time people face their emotional troubles without help from doctors or medicines. Like a long walk with a friend, a movie, or a good night sleep. There are even drugs that help people when they cannot cope with emotional pain. These drugs work on the brain and nervous system of the body and change the wa
As you can see, the book Drug Use and Drug Abuse goes into what can happen to you and why about drugs. And tells you ways you can prevent anything from happening to what you can do to help your self. What I got out of it was a learning experience to see what might happen if I did take a drug. People in every society, at every period in history, have had problems. Our modern age is no exception. The style of life today is very fast moving. Many people are finding it hard to keep up and still be comfortable and happy about whom they are. It's easy to get thrown off track. More and more people seem to be turning to pills for help in smoothing over life's little rough spots. Millions of people today have at one time or another taken pills to relax them. More have taken sleeping pills at some time in their lives. Drugs that provide pep to people who feel tired or uninterested in life. When smokers inhale the smoke from their cigarettes, they take the drugs contained in the tobacco into their bodies. Only three seconds after the first puff, nicotine makes the blood vessels become narrower. The blood pressure rises, and the heart has to work harder to circulate the blood through the body. Habits are so much a part of our lives that it is difficult for us to do without them. To understand what I am saying, try changing a few of your own habits. If you usually wake up at 1 in the afternoon on a Sat, try waking up at 6 in the morning. Stay in when you usually go out. You'll probably start to feel completely miserable. You will be looking forward to "getting back to normal." Many people who have drug habits say that this is why then need drugs, to feel normal. They have taken a certain drug so many times that it has become a necessary part of their lives. Without the drug, they feel uncomfortable and upset. Drugs can also physically habit-forming. After using certain drugs over and over again, the body changes. The drug actually becomes part of the body's chemical makeup. Amphetamines are a good example of this. The sleeplessness that a regular
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