Because of easy access and the invention of the hypodermic needle, people started abusing the drug. Heroin was then developed from morphine, which is up to 10 times as strong as morphine. In modern times, narcotics are administered to patients with chronic pain. Immediately after taking narcotics, nausea and vomiting may occur. Common short term effects are the constriction of pupils, drowsiness, apathy, slow breathing and dilation of blood vessels.
Illicit use of these drugs can lead to low birth weight, breathing difficulties, death, and of course the possibility of the baby being born addicted to the drug. Drug addictions in infants present themselves as irritability, fevers, and piercing cries. More specifically, cocaine use during pregnancy can cause physical deformities in the child’s eyes, bones, genitals, urinary tract, kidneys and heart and acute growth retardation. They may also experience seizures and hemorrhages. While many people believe that marijuana may not be as harmful as these other drugs, it can still affect the infant in a few ways.
Statement of Credibility/Relevance: According to Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino, “Today, the administration of psychoactive drugs to child 6-17 is all too common, and growing at an alarming rate. Theses drugs often cause the opposite of the intended effect, often condemning children to a life of misery and ill health.” Thesis: Psychoactive drugs are over prescribed to children and in many cases having a very negative effect. Preview: I’m going to explain what a psychoactive drug is, various types and uses of psychoactive drugs, all the negative effects associated with these drugs on children, and some solutions for these negative effects. Transition: Now before we look at the problems of these drugs, let’s first look at what a psychoactive drug actually is. Body: I.
The most common areas for social risk factors for drug abuse and addiction include males, being between 18 and 44 years of age, unmarried, and lower class status. The physical and psychological effects of drugs can be detrimental to someone's life. Physical effects of using drugs vary depending on the drug but intoxication with a substance can cause physical effects that range from marked sleepiness and slowed breathing as with intoxication with heroin or sedative hypnotic drugs, to the rapid heart rate of cocaine intoxication, or the tremors to seizures of alcohol withdrawal. Signs of a teenager having problems with substance abuse can be shown by a frequency of missing school or work, lack of energy and motivation, lack of interest in clothing or a lack in attempting to look nice, sudden and frequents requests for money. Other physical symptoms include an increased heart rate and blood pressure, dry mouth, red eyes, decreased coordination, slowed reaction time, and increased appetite.
Addictive disorders like drug abuse are the most widespread and intransigent mental health problems facing us today. Many problems of alcohol use involve difficulties that stem solely from the intoxicating effects of the substances. Dependence occurs when an individual develops a tolerance for the substance or exhibits withdrawal symptoms when it is not available. Drug abuse disorders may involve physiological dependence on substances, such as opiates- particularly heroin-or barbiturates; however psychological dependence may also occur with any of the drugs that are commonly used today-for e.g. marijuana.
Heavy drinking during adolescence years, when the brain is still developing causes lasting impairment functions such as memory, coordination, and motor skills. Drinking interferes with good judgments leading adolescents’ intolerable behavior and making the vulnerable to sexual coercion. Adolescence girls who consume alcohol for the same reasons adolescents boys do are faced with challenges boys do not have to experience: for example drinking can delay puberty in girls while abusing alcohol can cause endocrine disorders during puberty. Teenage girls who drinks are more likely to have unprotected sex putting them at an increase risk of pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases. Statistics have shown each approximately 5,500 young people at the age of twenty-one died of the result of underage drinking; this includes about 2,000 deaths in automobile crashes, 3,000 as a result of homicides and 500 from suicides.
Common side effects from antipsychotics may include: •Sleepiness (sedation) •Dizziness •Weight gain •Increased chance of diabetes and high cholesterol •Feelings of restlessness or "jitters" •Slowed movements •Tremor Long-term use of antipsychotic medications may increase your risk for a movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia. This condition causes repeated movements that you cannot control, especially around the mouth. Call your doctor right away if you think you may have this
The most well known signs of addiction include loss of control over substances or behavior, obsession with a substance or behavior, prolonged use of the substance no matter what the consequences are, and complete denial that there is any type of dependence. Addiction is a strong indicator of much deeper psychological issues, often stemming from early childhood trauma of some kind. Once these issues are faced and dealt with, the use of drugs or any other substance becomes unnecessary in most, if not all cases. Society tends to believe that drug addicts are “weak”, and that if they really wanted to stop using, they could overcome the obsession and compulsion to use drugs. That addicts are anti-social, and that they use because they want to, not because they need to.
These aspects play a role in how a person deals with life and different situations that they may go through. Being bullied and abused as a child is something that can change your life. In today’s society children deal with life threatening issues as well as adults. Child abuse and bullying are two of the tops cases of death and issues dealing with children. A child’s weak mind is unable to deal with such impacting and severe issues that have an effect on their daily life process.
ABSTRACT Although substance abuse is always a serious matter, adolescents substance abuse is especially dangerous. Nowadays teenagers abuse all sorts of drugs, including not only alcohol, cigarette, prescription drugs but also marijuana and cocaine. This paper, based on secondary research, discusses why young people use and abuse drugs and how it affects teenage. In particular, adolescent substance use results from lack of parents’ supervision, the availability of drugs in the environment they live and suffering from stress. The findings of the research indicate that using substances leads to a lot of effects on health and work, especially for teens, it causes some brain problem and has influences on study at school.