DRUG ADDICTION AND WAYS TO PREVENT/MANAGE IT

 Drug addiction is otherwise called substance addiction, is a very complex situation or disease that is very difficult to manage or cope with; in most cases is a compulsion usage of substance. It is a product of habitual, psychological or physiological dependence on a substance. These substances could be legal or illegal. Some of the legal substances are alcohol and Nicotine. Though, the excess usage of them can also be referred to as addiction. The illegal substances are those that are prohibited by the government. They include heroin, cocaine and the like.
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Drug addiction and drug abuse are two different things. It is the misappropriate usage of drugs like pain killers, while drug addiction is habitual taking of drugs that jeopardize one’s life.

Drug addiction has both clinical and psychological effect. Clinical effect are effects that require medical attention, sometimes urgent or a gradual management or therapy. The most common of all is mental health problems, such as seen in psychiatric hospitals, psychosis where people begins to run mad, some manifest as a result of depression. Because of the way this drugs are used, you see some people injecting themselves and these are avenue for contracting HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B which has become rampant today. As a result of drug addiction, some people become sexually arouse because they no longer have control over themselves.
 Psychological effect can lead to careless driving which might lead to fatal accident and the result becomes death. Another effect is that it ruins relationship thereby leading to breakup in marriages, indiscriminate and unprotected sex and abusing the spouse and neglecting of children. It also prompt the victim into stealing and involving in other violent act.
 The management of drug addiction is very complex but treatable and recovering differs with individual for one to recover fully/ and living a normal life while others requires additional care. The ultimate goal is to is to help every individual manage their own substance and in helping individual to abstain from drug addiction, you don’t just cut the individual immediately from it you have to reduce the substance that the individual have been addicted to overtime, improve his ability to perform and minimize the medical and social medication of such disorder or substance abuse. And the management is usually according to the substance, either alcohol, tobacco, drug you manage it around that line, you abstain with advocate abstinence from that substance in its entirety, gradual reduction in the use to the point that the drugs does not interfere anymore with the normal activities of such person either in the family, educational setting, in the work place or whatever area the person is involved.

There is need for you to think about your future and consider the consequences and dangers therein. Being addicted makes you become useless to your family and society at large. Engage yourself into meaningful activities and that makes you responsible to the society. It is better prevented than no as they sat “prevention is better than cure” “obedience is better than sacrifice”