Alcohol dependence and drug abuse The abuse of alcohol and drug abuse can effect a person’s economic, psychologically and physically. Drug and alcohol addiction is said to be the worst kind of addiction that one can have its common and costly. It can cause or worsen many medical problems and destroy families. With most street drugs outlawed in the United States the question still remains: Why is alcohol legal when it has been proven to be a leading cause of death? With that being said alcohol and drug addiction also takes a toll on wallets and families.
It affects the brain's pleasure systems and interferes with the brain's ability to perceive pain by depressing nerve transmission in the sensory pathways of the spinal cord and brain that signal pain. This explains why heroin is such an effective pain killer and why it has increasing physical addiction and ongoing emotional dependence. Heroin also inhibits brain centers controlling coughing, and breathing which makes it very dangerous. Heroin is exceedingly addictive, quickly producing tolerance and dependence. Although heroin is even more effective as a painkiller than morphine and codeine, it is so highly addictive that its use is illegal.
Cocaine's immediate effects wear off in 30 minutes to two hours. Smoking or injecting cocaine results in a faster and shorter high, compared to snorting coke. Cocaine is responsible for more U.S. emergency room visits than any other illegal drug. Cocaine harms the brain, heart, blood vessels, and lungs and can even cause sudden death (Holstege, 2011). REFERENCE PAGE
Heroine, is a actually a very fast working pain killer. However, the abuse of this illicit drug could cause major abuse problems, that more often than not cause overdose and death. The second principle is, every psychoactive drug has multiple affects. For example, for people with anxiety issues, Xanax (an over the counter drug) can be very useful to them. It can help mellow them down in social situation and in life in general.
II. Body A. Problem: Tobacco use is a vicious cycle with people getting addicted and dying. 1. Tobacco is highly addictive a. Nicotine is the most addictive drug available (Donatelle, 2010) b. Genetics play a role in the speed of addiction.
Marijuana is addictive and harmful to the health of anyone who smokes it. It is a drug that is easily abused and the potential benefits of taxing and regulating it are overstated. Marijuana’s main active chemical is THC. Marijuana can be taken in three ways, by eating, made into a tea, or smoking which is the most popular. Different people will get different results when smoking marijuana.
Some just want to escape and drink their pain away. They tend to drink large amounts of alcohol in one sitting which is called binge drinking. That can be very bad considering alcohol is a depressant and you can become dependent on it. Drinking alcohol underaged can affect the still-growing brain leading to a learning deficiency and mental disorders. Alcohol tends to make you lazy and makes you show a loss of interest in your school work and extra curricular activities.
1. Introduction Heroin is considered to be one of the deadliest drugs in the world today. While reading Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, I noticed many similarities between heroin and the drug that is described in the book - Substance D. Both of these drugs are highly addictive and dangerous. Users find it extremely difficult to stop using them — even after trying them for just the first time. There are many more similarities and also differences between heroin and Substance D, and the aim of this paper is to find and research them in depth, focusing on the situation of these drugs in America.
Cocaine again became popular in the 1970s however, due to its expense it was limited to only the wealthy in the population. In the late 1980s and 1990s a new form of smokable cocaine, “crack” cocaine, was manufactured. In this form cocaine was cheap, abundant, and highly addictive. This created a firestorm of cocaine use among users who were pregnant women. Cocaine at that time affected 300 000 to 400 000 newborns in the united states alone in the 1990s (Schoenwolf et al, 2009).
Once heralded as a safe and non-addictive alternative to morphine, heroine drug addiction has turned into a national menace since coming to the United States in the late 1800’s. Sometimes glamorized, heroin drug addiction is the most rapidly acting of the opiates and the most abused. It is everywhere, in our communities, in our schools and its reach crosses all socioeconomic boundaries. It is highly addictive and all too often fatal. Heroin is a highly addictive drug, made from morphine, which is made from opium, a processed derivative from a natural substance harvested from the seedpods of poppy plants.