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Drugs: Abuse and Addiction

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

drugs abuse

Abuse:
The drug abuse is the second stage and accepted essentially two ways:
1) The use of the drug against different stimuli, but still no regularity in time. Example: the student who also use drugs before a test, used to claim the increased performance in a sports competition, brightest display in a social gathering, etc.
2) Change of the drug, provided that still occur irregularly in time.
The individual uses different drugs, adverse effects in a compensatory manner. The individual taking stimulants for studying, sleeping and depressants to counteract the effect of the first and those rising again to overcome the dullness and able to go to work. Whether creating a vicious circle impossible to stop himself, without specialized assistance .
3) Addiction (psychological dependence on drugs and psycho). When we have been describing the process regularly takes the time and becomes permanent, the individual has reached the last stage: the drug .-

Habit:
It is the body’s adaptation to the drug, with the consequence that over time the same dose will produce no effect. For the same level of responses must therefore be increased gradually.

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Why illegal drugs are illegal?

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

illegal drugs

A little history
At the end of last century with the expansion of trade and communications, drug use, which hitherto affected only small communities, began to spread. The passage of drugs from one country to another including the manner of his use, was still a growing problem. Since the consumption of these consequences brought not only the health of people but also affecting the development of communities.

Thus in 1909, thirteen nations of the world gathered in Shanghai and formed a committee, then in 1912 signed the first drug control treaty known as the International Opium Convention of The Hague. ”

Thereafter, a series of Conventions (1920, 1925, 1931, 1936) until in 1946 the Organization of the United Nations assumed responsibility, becoming the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, a body subordinate to it.

Shortly after the end of World War II were synthesized many compounds whose effects produced dependency. These substances were placed under international control.

The United Nations then writes “The 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs”, by which States Parties undertake specific obligations to limit drug production plant only the amount needed for medical and scientific purposes.

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What do we mean when we talk about drugs?

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

about drugs

What is a drug?
In accordance with the Charter of the United Nations Governments of Member States have the responsibility, inter alia, for the health of their peoples. To contribute to this purpose and to promote cooperation among themselves and with others and protect the health of all people, States meeting established that the World Health Organization is the specialized agency in the matter.

A classic definition given by the World Health Organization can guide us in trying to understand what these substances we call drugs, and to know what preventive actions can be made:

WHO says: “Drug” is any substance which, introduced into the body through any route of administration, produces a somewhat altered from the natural functioning of the central nervous system of the individual and is also likely to create dependence, either psychological, physical or both.

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