‘Drugs’

Cannabis

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Cannabis

This drug although it is illegal, is a drug that is shared socially especially since adolescence and that in many areas is even mistakenly accepted and considered low risk. It has the characteristic of being backed by the myth that a plant is harmless, and assume that by being natural is not harmful. But its implications are subtle but dramatic: in the long term, physically come to cause severe respiratory problems like sinusitis, bronchitis, lung cancer, and negative effects on the male reproductive system, impotence and infertility.

In the female reproductive system, increases the level of testosterone, the possibility of infertility and pregnancy complications. In both cases, one of the most severe consequences is antimotivational syndrome that includes loss of concentration, lack of energy, decreased working capacity, stupor and lack of motivation to the immediate future. Usually the drug addiction makes the person who has it put a lot of resistance when seeking treatment, because its consequences are not apparent grave. This self-deception is difficult to combat. For treatment, often becomes necessary professional intervention.

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Anabolic

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Anabolic
These are drugs that mimic the effects of the natural male hormone testosterone. Different names are sold low. As is clear from recent studies this type of drug it can cause addiction. Some people need medical care when they want to stop taking steroids and experience withdrawal symptoms.

Effects
They have two types of effects: the first is to exert androgenic or masculinizing, namely to deeper voice, increased body hair and face and develop male sex organs and the second is an anabolic effect that stimulates the development of muscle mass and bone growth.

Physiological Effects

  • Increased lean mass
  • Reduction of adipose tissue
  • Increase strength
  • Increased resistance
  • Decreased recovery time after exercise

All this leads to increased athletic performance. However, to produce an improvement in muscle strength, the athlete must also follow a training program during the time it takes these steroids.

It has shown an increase in strength and agility.

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5 Stages in the Process of Addiction

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Process of Addiction

In many ways the process of addiction has been compared to entering into a relationship, but in this case it would be an unhappy relationship. As we go through successive stages, commitment is enhanced and the influence it has on the addict becomes stronger.

  • Infatuation

The first experiments with drugs often leave a mark recorded. If this first contact has been nice, there is a passionate infatuation or attraction to retake the substance or the activity. This distorted perception of reality, however, excites, calms produces euphoria or which increases the probability of having a new opportunity to take or consume. There is a change of mood that, in many cases, experienced a visceral level (all caused by the logic alteration of brain chemistry) and generates the glare like one falls for a chic.

In the game, a strong initial gain increases the chances of getting addicted to gambling.

  • Honeymoon

Once the individual has learned, through his family, society, or from my own experience that certain activities or consumption of certain substances can be transported as if by magic away from any feeling or mood is negative, the step addiction is easy.

Having “learned” in stage 1 it is possible to get some relief (negative reinforcement) or pleasure (positive reinforcement) through the addictive substance or activity, the person may feel compelled to erase bad feelings or pain with something positive. The low tolerance for frustration or inability to cope with such adversity leads to search for “silver bullets”, then searching for the chemical action that facilitates change.

During the honeymoon phase, the future addict experiences all the perks without any negative consequences: it feels that exerts control, the activity is harmless and that he deserves. You can instantly feel better and enjoy the feeling of forgetting everything. But what they do not realize is that any relationship based on deception and fantasy can work well long term.

  • Betrayal

However, what one sees during the honeymoon is not what actually gets. Over time, it is betrayed. Thus, besides a deterioration in key areas of your life, it is likely that the addict is doing things that would not normally do, to maintain and addiction (to steal, engage in other illegal activities). Artificial paradise that was promised in an earlier stage they turn into dark alleys filled with traps. The betrayal is real and the decline begins.

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Effects and Dangers of cocaine use

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

cocain effects

When cocaine is introduced through the nose, start feeling the effects within a few minutes. These effects include: dilated pupils, increased blood pressure, the heart pulse rate and respiration, as also denoted a marked increase in body temperature. Also some regular users of the drug claim feelings of restlessness, irritability, anxiety and insomnia. In some people, even low doses of cocaine can create serious psychological problems. With high doses may suffer paranoia or experience what is called “cocaine psychosis“.

The occasional use can cause runny or blocked nose, while chronic aspiration can ulcerate the mucous membrane of the nose.

Although few people understand it, deaths can occur when injecting excessive doses, smoke or take drugs. The deaths are the result of multiple attacks suspension followed by respiratory and cardiac activity. Anyone addicted to this drug is subject to a fatal outcome when least expected, because cocaine in all its forms creates such physical and psychological dependence that consumers are using in increasing quantities in order to achieve the results we obtained in its inception, this being the cause of excess and therefore death from overdose .-

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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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Drugs classified as the Social Optica

Monday, January 11th, 2010

drug classifications

These are substances whose use has been accepted at the social level and yet are included in the WHO definition
* Tea
* Coffee
* Chocolate
* Certain soft drinks
* Snuff
* Alcohol
Etc.

Intermediate
All medications, from:
* Aspirin Until (OTC) (Recipe)
or psychotropic
or sedatives
or barbiturates

For example: The most complicated of the Antiparkinsonian

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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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What is Drug Addiction?

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

drug addictionDrug addiction is a very important public health problem. Risks and harm associated with drug addiction vary for each substance and extremely dangerous, for it is necessary to consider personal variables such as degree of motivation, knowledge or experience of using drug addiction, and the specific properties of drug addiction as well as the influence of adulterants elements.

What makes the drug addiction is a harmful addiction is that it turns against oneself and others. At the start of drug addiction apparently obtained some gratification, as a habit. But soon his behavior begins to have negative consequences in your life. Addictive behaviors for addiction to drugs produce pleasure, relief and other compensation in the short term but cause pain, disaster, desolation and a multitude of problems in the medium term.

Types of drug addiction
Drug addiction
Used to describe a pattern of use of drug addiction that leads to serious problems or concerns as to miss work, using drugs in dangerous situations (driving a car), or continued use of drug addiction that interferes with family relationships or with friends. drug addiction as a disorder, refers to the abuse of illegal substances or excessive use of legal substances (like alcohol).

The chemical dependency
It is the continuous use addiction to drugs, even when major problems have developed. These include an increased tolerance or need for increasing amounts of drug addiction to achieve the desired effect, failure to attempt to quit drug addiction, and a weakening of their social activities.

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