DRUG ABUSE

Drug Abuse

Drug Abuse

Introduction

Drug abuse is defined as the excessive usage of drugs. Drug abuse affects more than just the abuser. It can seriously damage any number of personal and professional relationships. Drug abuse affects all aspects of an abusers life. This can lead to loss of jobs, families being torn apart through violence or divorce, prison, and death for some. All of these have far reaching consequences. The drug abuser who receives no rehabilitation can be doomed to a life of low self-esteem and crime. It is like a cancer on our society and worthy of serious consideration. Drug usage and abuse is considered a social problem in many ways. A growing number of people in today's society are worried that drug use and abuse warrants grave public concern, and that there needs to be change in the approach to deal with and stop it.

Analysis

More recently the concern is forwarded to the rise in the consumption of the club drugs, such as MDMA, ecstasy, ketamine, GHB, and LSD. Ecstasy or MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a stimulant that blends the properties of methamphetamine or "speed" with mind-altering or hallucinogenic properties. Considered the most routinely utilised designer pharmaceutical, Ecstasy is a close derivative of methamphetamine and can be recounted as a hallucinogenic stimulant. LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic drug, also called a psychedelic. Ketamine is a powerful animal tranquilizer that causes hallucinations, nightmares, delirium, and violent irrational responses. All of the listed drugs have become popular nationally among teenagers and young adults especially at all-night dance parties called "raves" (Earleywine, 2002).

MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, GHB, and Ketamine are among the drugs used by teens and young adults who are part of a nightclub, bar, rave, or trance scene. Raves and trance events are usually nightlong dances, often held in warehouses. Many who join talks wildly and trances do not use drugs, but those who do may be captivated to the generally reduced cost, apparently advanced stamina, and intoxicating highs that are said to deepen the talk wildly or trance experience. Current research, although, is displaying change to critical components of the mind from use of these drugs. Also, in high doses most of these drugs can cause a sharp increase in body temperature (malignant hypothermia) leading to muscle breakdown and kidney and cardiovascular system failure (Schuster, C.R., Jaffe, J.H., Smith, B, 1971).

MDMA is a synthetic, psychoactive drug with both stimulant (amphetamine-like) and hallucinogenic (LSD-like) properties. Street names for MDMA include Ecstasy, Adam, XTC, hug, beans, and love drug. Its chemical structure (3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, "MDMA") is alike to methamphetamine, methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and mescaline these are synthetic pharmaceuticals renowned to origin mind damage. MDMA usually is taken in pill form, but some users snort it, inject it, or use it in suppository form (Roe, Benson B. 1998).

Many troubles MDMA users meet are alike to those found with the use of amphetamines and cocaine. Psychological adversities can encompass disarray, despondency, doze problems, severe anxiety, and ...