Drugs
...fered by friends on that age. Friends play a considerable role at the very beginning of drug taking. Drugs among teenagers are taken as help because people of that age most often face conflicts at school in the family or the like. The psychosomatic discomfort is usually initiated by others. Today as I said earlier drugs is the urgent social problem both in Europe and the USA. In recent years we not only have poppies or cannabis (marijuana) but LSD, ecstasy, heroine and cocaine are some of the famous drugs. Nevertheless drugs affects destructive the human life. Different drugs have different effects and consequences. Drugs have psychological and social consequences. Psychological level consequences depend on the nature of the drugs. A regular cannabis may cause frequent respiratory infections, impaired memory and learning, anxiety, panic attacks, tolerance, physical dependence and also the need for stronger drugs. The effects of cocaine and crack increase excitability pulse rate, high blood pressure, rise of temperature. Smoking crack can cause severe chest pains with lung trauma and bleeding. Cocaine damages nose mucous membrane and usually one feels ill after using it. The after-effect may result in mental diseases. Ecstasy leads to thirst, shudder, hallucinations, irregular heart beat, depression, various phobias. Ecstasy may be the cause of liver decay. LSD effects are very different. Increases the blood sugar and lowers the body temperature. The user may experience visual changes with extreme changes in mood. Habitual usage may disturb mental state or lead to paranoia. Heroin actively inhabits brain functions affect organism reflex actions such as cough, breathing or pulse. This makes a man sleepy, she/he doesn’t feel any anxiety or pain. It results in psychological dependence. The syndrome of abstention, convulsion, muscle cramp, flu symptoms come after a sudden refusal of the drug. Drugs also have social consequences. Regular drug taking change social relationship, family, school, ties are shaken or completely lost. Among the friend using drugs the atmosphere of pseudo – collectivism appears. Drugs are also connected to crime in our society. The fact is that drug – an illegal and expensive pleasure – provokes crime, therefore drugs are thought to be the main reason for crime among drug addicts. Another opinion is that crime incites drug taking, as drugs are typical of the subculture of criminals. The third idea states that drugs and crime are interrelated with the drug addict’s identity, which plays the decisive role in life. Lastly what we can do to prevent drug abuse? This is the most challenging question of all. There is no easy answer. We do, however, have some ideas about prevention which might help. Drug abuse prevention means helping people develop strong personal values that will reduce the chance they will hurt themselves--or others--by abusing drugs. Drug abuse is not confined to youth, but if young people between 8 and 20 can be prevented from abusing drugs, they are less likely to have a serious drug problem when they grow older. To prevent drug abuse people may be involved with the following: 1. As parents they can raise their children to be thinking, caring a...