3. • In this project we focus on those drugs that are highly
abused by peoples, because they are pleasurable.
• Continuous use of a drug leads to dependence.
• The phenomenon of drug addiction is becoming
increasingly serious due to the growing number of
addicts among youth.
4. • Restoring a person to good health or a useful life
through support, therapy and education.
• Drug Rehabilitation Counselling takes rehabilitation
a step further because through counselling, the addict
is equipped to see the world through a new set of
lenses
5. The term now covers,
1. Use of drug to affect the mind & body for non-medical reasons
2. Using substance which are illegal
3. Excessive use of therapeutic drugs.
WHO has coined the term “drug dependence” to replace the
terms “drug addiction and drug habit”.
“Drug dependence is a state, psychic and sometimes also
physical, resulting from the interaction between a living
organism and a drug, characterized by behavioral and other
responses that always include a compulsion to take the drug on
a continuous or periodic basis in order to experience its psychic
effects.”
6. Confusion
Episodes
Glassy &
of
violence Symptoms red eyes
of drug
abuse
Needs
physical
appearance drug
regularly
7. Blood Test
& Urine test
CSF Test
General Signs
& Tests
Estimation
Physical
of
appearance
Behavior
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8. Have the general formula (R-OH)
Possess both hydrophilic & lipophylic properties
important to its pharmacological activity
Alcoholic beverages:
BEVERAGE PERCENTAGE OF ALCOHOL
By volume % V/V
Vodka 40-55
Whisky 40-55
Wine 10-12
Beer 3-6
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9. About 80% is absorbed from the small intestine & 20% in
stomach
Distributed throughout the body & rate of distribution
depends on vascularization
90% is oxidized in liver, the remainder being eliminated
through the lungs & in small amounts in the urine
90-98 percent of an ingested dose of ethanol is metabolized by
the liver. Most of the remaining 2-10 percent is excreted
unchanged in the urine & exhaled air
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20. • Cocaine is a drug found in leaves of the shrub Erythroxylon coca
• It exaggerates changes caused by at least two brain chemicals,
noradrenalin and dopamine, increasing alertness and causing
euphoria.
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22. Topiramate
Modafinil
Rehabilitation programs involving individual and group
psychotherapy based on the principles of Alcoholics
Anonymous and behavioral treatments
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23. • The study shows the severity of the various drugs
like alcohol, heroine, nicotine, cocaine, etc. on the
human health.
• Also these types of drugs are responsible for
Disturbing sociological aspects; therefore it is
necessary to take care about the use of such types
of drugs.
• Rehabilitation with detoxication is the best way to
treat an individual suffering from drug addiction.
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24. 1. DR. THAKARE CHARITABLE TRUST, MUMBAI
Thakare Hospital, Hare Krishna road, Chaitanya Nagar, I.I.T Market,
Powai, Mumbai – 76 Tel.: (022)25788699/ 25788657
[http://www.alcoholismindia.com]
2. Muktangan Rehabilitation Center
Address: Muktangan Rehabilitation Center, Mohanwadi, off Pune- Alandi
Road, Yerawada, Pune 411006, Maharashtra, India
Email: muktangancorporate@gmail.com
Phone: +91 (20) 6401 4598 / 2669 7605 Mobile +91 9922 028 366
[http://www.muktangan.org]
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25. • Barar F. S. K., Essentials of Pharmacotherapeutics, S. Chand
Publications, 2009, fifth edition, page no. 69-70.
• C.K. Parikh’s, Parikh’s textbook of Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic
Medicine & Toxicology, CBS Publishers & distributers, 2007, Sixth
edition, page no. 10.7-10.10.
•http://www.thedrugrehab.com/drug-rehab-blog/
•http://whyquit.com/pr/111906.html
•http://www.alcoholismindia.com/aboutus.html
•http://en.wikipedia.org
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