Ch. 26 ILLEGAL DRUGS. Drug Use A High Risk Behavior!
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Ch. 26
ILLEGAL DRUGS
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Drug UseA High Risk Behavior!
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Substance abuse
•Any unnecessary or improper use of a chemical substances for nonmedical purposes.
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Illegal drugs/Street drugs
• Chemical substances that serve no medical purpose and are simply used for recreational or other unhealthful purposes.
• These substances are against the law for people of any age to manufacture, possess, buy or sell.
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• Their potential for harm is great.
• Some occur naturally.• Some are synthetic drugs.
– Chemical substances produced artificially in a laboratory.
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Gateway Drugs
•Alcohol and nicotine.
•Drugs that often lead to other serious and dangerous drug use.
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Trends in Teen Drug Use
• U.S. teens use drugs at an earlier age.
• More teens are trying heroin than ever before.
• Many teens think that some illegal drugs are safe.
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Why People begin Using Drugs.
• See friends, parents, or older siblings using them.
• They feel pressure to use and don’t know how to say no.
• They want to fit in, relax, or seem mature.
• See drugs glamorized on TV, videos, song lyrics, etc.
• Trying to escape from their problems.
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Dangers of Substance Abuse
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Side Effects
•Reactions other than the one intended.
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Synergistic Effect
•A multiplying effect when two or more drugs are taken at the same time.
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Overdose
•A strong or even fatal reaction to taking a large amount of a drug.
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Tolerance
• Needing more and more of a drug to get the same effect that a smaller dose used to produce.
• Eventually needing the drug just to function.
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Physiological Dependence
•The body develops a chemical need for a drug.
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Withdrawal
• Occurs when a person stops using a drug o which he or she is physiologically dependent.
• Symptoms of this process can include nervousness, insomnia, severe nausea, headaches, vomiting, chills, cramps, and, in some instances, even death.
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Psychological Dependence
A person believes a drug is needed in order to feel good or to function normally.
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Addiction
• Addiction involves physiological and psychological dependence on a drug.
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Costs of Substance Abuse
• Negatively affect performance in school, sports, relationships with peers and in family life.
• Trouble with the law.• Ruin ones life.• Educational goals interrupted• Can slow the progress toward
becoming a mature adult.
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Costs to others
• Effects the people in the drug abusers life.
• Drug related crimes.• Effect on law enforcement.• Drug lords and drug smugglers kill and
enslave people to handle their drugs.
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Drugs and Pregnancy
• Substance abuse can do serious harm to developing fetuses and to babies who ingest the substance through breast milk.
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• 5% of women who give birth every year used an illicit drug at sometime during their pregnancy.
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• Babies born to drug using mothers may be addicted themselves.
• Increased chance of birth defects, problems both physically and emotionally for the rest of their lives.
• Increased miscarriages and infant deaths.
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