Hello everyone, its @emmaboy23 and i would love to participate in this educative contest organised by @sahmie titled the dangers of drug abuse
EXPLAIN IN YOUR UNDERSTANDING WHAT DRUG ABUSE IS ALL ABOUT AND MENTION SONE COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS IN OUR ENVIRONMENT
Drug abuse refers to the use of drugs through self medication or without due medical prescription and administration. It can also be defined as the illicit use of hard drugs. Drug abuse has become a matter of constant discussion on radios, magazines, newspaper and social media recently. The high rate of drug abuse in our country has reached to a frightening level and it has pervaded every sector of our economy. Drug abuse is closely related to drug addiction, which is also know as compulsive drug -craving, seeking and use consequences. This has lead to several psychiatric cases round the country and this is because several youth take drugs such as heroine, cocaine, Indian hemp which affect their brain. They take these drugs ostensibly because they want to be in fashion and they want to be daring and bold. Consequently, most of them constitute themselves into nuisance to the society and end up in psychiatric hospitals.
WHAT ARE SOME COMMON DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE THAT WE SHOULD ADDRESS
They are many adverse effect of drug abuse to the user, family, community and the country at large. In fact many families have endangered the live of their family members through self medication. The dangers of drug abuse can be grouped as follows
1 physical/health consequences: it damages the body organs such as brain, liver, pancreas etc. It can also cause chronic cough, hypertension and heart attack. It also lead to mental disorder which makes one perpetually useless
2 psychological consequences: drug abuse leads to sleeplessness, anxiety, craving for drug of choice, and loss of memory. It also causes constant incessant anger against oneself, His family and the society
3 social consequences: drug abuse has a way to increase criminal act such as stealing, armed robbery, murder, rape, suicide and cultism. Drug abuse can render the user poor, brings Shame to him and his family making him useless in the society.
HOW CAN WE PROMOTE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE IN OUR COMMUNITIES
Drug abuse is a very serious social vices that leads to health and social problems. Therefore, the need to prevent drug abuse is paramount. Drug abuse can be prevented in the following ways
1 Advocacy and reorientation
2 Enactment and implementation of drug laws
3 Education.
4 youths should be encouraged to resist negative peer pressure.
5 Good knowledge of drugs by individuals and the public should be encouraged
WHAT ARE SOME EFFECTIVE WAYS TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH DRUG ADDICTION
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Individuals who suffer from drug addiction may be because of one problem or the other. We have to show understanding by encouraging the drug addict to speak freely to offload his mind, carefully listen to reasons why he/she get involved, explain why you feel that the usage of drugs are harmful and why he/she need counselling or treatment, assist and persuade him/her to seek help and provide moral support through different period of treatment and rehabilitation, and give the victim enough rest periods.
HOW CAN WE EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE IN A RELATABLE AND ENGAGING WAY
It is certain that drug abuse has posed a lot of dangers to our society and the government has to do something about it. Our people need to be enlightened about the dangerous consequences of drug abuse. Mass enlightenment campaign should be organised by the government. In addition, the government should promulgate a law which forbids the sake of drugs in the common open market and there should be a law which forbids a chemist from selling drugs to the public without prescription paper from a doctor or a pharmacist. Religious bodies also have a role to play in educating the public about the dangers of drug abuse
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Inviting @rogue22 @mesola and @radleking to partake in this contest