People use drugs for several reasons, including peer pressure, thrill-seeking, and to self-medicate emotional needs. Addiction is now recognized as a chronic relapsing brain disease, characterized by compulsive drug use despite negative consequences. It progresses through stages as tolerance increases and brain changes persist for years after drug use. While drugs can have medical benefits when properly used, drug abuse has significant health and social costs, including increased crime and family problems. Education and treatment aim to prevent misuse and support recovery from addiction.

2. WHY PEOPLE USE DRUGS
• Peer pressure
• Need to belong and be accepted
• Makes one "feel good"
• Thrill seeking behavior
• Experience new things

3. Historically, addiction has been viewed as a
moral failing. Addicts, it was thought, lacked
willpower and gave in to their baser desires.
As understanding about how the brain works
improved, however, data started to support a
disease rather than a moral model of
addiction. The disease model itself has not
remained static. It’s most basic aspect — the
definition of addiction — has undergone full-scale
revision over the decades.

4. THE NEW DEFINITION • Accordingly, a newer definition developed that holds
that the essence of addiction is “compulsive drug seeking
and use, even in the face of negative health and social
consequences.”5 Addiction is also described as progressive.
It gets worse over time because of the way tolerance
intensifies. Finally, addiction is a “chronic relapsing
disease,”6 because experts say long-term drug use alters
the brain’s structure and function. These brain changes
remain “months and years after the last use of
drugs,”7 helping to explain the high rates of relapse after
treatment.

6. • The difference between addicts and casual drug users
(people in recovery call them “normies”) is that addicts
use drugs as medicine while “normies” use drugs for fun.
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of addicts:
“normies” who become addicted; and “born addicts.“ The
first become get addicted from excessive drug use over of
time (though they may have a genetic predisposition that
makes drugs particularly beneficial emotionally). Over
time, excessive drug use causes their brains to
develop tolerance as a defensive reaction to the
overstimulation of their Limbic “reward” systems that
drugs cause.

7. • “Born addicts,“ on the other hand, come pre-pickled.
They use drugs compulsively from
their first introduction to them. For “born
addicts,” the emotional payoff is so immediate
and profound they feel they’ve found the
antidote to their previously unmet emotional
needs. They too use drugs as medicine, they
just do it right from the beginning. They also
tend to be 2nd or 3rd-generation addicts who
have inherited an addict brain.

9. Why people caught into Drugs?
• Peer Pressure
• Curiosity
• Ignorance
• Alienation
• Absence of Good Guidance
• No Job and No Aim in Life

10. ADDICTION “THE DISEASE”
• Rehab referred to addiction as “the Disease.” It was
portrayed as a brain parasite able to manipulate one’s
very thought process.
• The disease has three phases: severity of consequence

11. THE FIRST STAGE…….
• In its earliest stage, people drink for relief, saying things like “I
need a drink,” and meaning it quite literally. They may suffer
blackouts, pick up a DUI (or two) and lose control over their
use but don’t know it. At this stage, some can lead seemingly
normal lives, successfully shielding themselves from terrible
consequences despite their their daily drinking. These people are
termed “maintenance” or “functioning alcoholics,” because they
can maintain the veneer of normality. Others may be ”binge
drinkers,” who get loaded regularly but whose potential for
addiction is masked by the fact that they don’t drink every day.
But eventually, because of the progressive nature of addiction,
the pretense of maintenance drinkers’ normality breaks down
and binge drinkers binge more often.

12. NOW COMES THE SECOND STAGE………
• In the second stage the consequences escalate. Addicts
in this phase suffer “psycho-social problems,”
losing jobs, friends and families as a result of
their erratic behavior. They often suffer worsening
legal problem; divorce, more DUIs, and such, and
worsening living standards, sometimes sinking to
homelessness. This is usually the point where their
families attempt interventions.

13. AND FINALLY THE LAST STAGE……
• The final stage was characterized as “body rot,”
involving multiple organ failures (liver, kidney,
pancreas, etc.) and death.
• There aren’t any bright lines separating these stages
and addicts don’t see the progression of the disease
from one to another because they’re in denial, part of
the mis-working of the addict mind.
• Rehab instructed us that addiction was a “shame-based
disease,” in which addicts give themselves what they
think they deserve. They diagrammed the ”cycle of
shame” to which addicts fall prey as they descend into
slow-motion suicide.

14. THE FEAR
• Addicts are extremely fearful people. What do they fear? Just
about everything.
• They fear running out. They fear running low. They fear having
to go places where they won’t have access to the drugs or
alcohol they need, which leads to overwhelming fear of detox.
• They fear others will find out how much they’re drinking or
using and how low they’ve sunk to assure they won’t run out.
• They fear getting caught in all the lies they tell and all the
cheating they do.
• They fear they’re weak and unlovable, deserving all the
calamities that befall them. Eventually, when addiction enters
its final stages, they may even fear waking up.

15. CLASSIFICATION OF DUGS
Stimulants
Depressants
Narcotics
Hallucinogens
Cannabis
Inhalants

16. FINANCIAL IMPACT OF DRUG ABUSE
ON SOCIETY

17. Effects on Family and Society
• Gives Negative Influences
• Poor Relationship with Family and Society
• Divorce Cases
• Loss Trust and Respect
• Unemployment
• Spread Disease because of Care Free
Attitude

18. STIMULANTS
NICOTINE
CAFFEINE
COCAINE
AMPHETAMINES
METHAPHETAMINE

19. DEPRESSANTS
ALCOHOL
BARBITURATES
VALIUM

20. NARCOTICS
OPIUM
HEROIN
MORPHINE

21. HALLUCINOGENS
LSD
MESCALINE
PSIOLYCBIN
PCP(ANGEL DUST)
DESIGNER DRUGS(XTC,MDMA)

22. INHALANTS
 CHEMICAL SOLVENTS
 PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
 PAINT
 AEROSOLS

23. DRUGS ISSUES IN SOCIETY
• Increased crime results from drug use
• Increased violence results from drug use
What is the best solution?
• more education to not start?
• better treatment for addicted users?
• stricter enforcement?
• harder punishments for offenders?
• more efforts to reduce flow of illegal drugs?

24. THRILL SEEKING
• People classified as “novelty-seekers” or “high-sensation seekers,” are
more likely to use drugs and gamble than their personality opposites,
“low-sensation seekers.”1 Novelty-seekers have physiologically
different brains than cautious people, says Dr. Carl Schwartz of
Harvard. Thrill-seeking, such as bungee jumping, may be a way to
activate the reward system to overcome a lower base-line of natural
stimulation from a sluggish Limbic “reward” system, he says.2
• Thrill-seekers also have correspondingly higher electrical responses in
their brains as visual or acoustic stimuli increase, whereas low-sensation
seekers show less brain activity as the intensity of the
stimulus increases. This too may be because high-sensation seekers
have a lower base line of brain arousal and need persistent
stimulation to compensate.3
•

25. Drugs and Their Affect on Society
– Positive effects of drugs
– Negative effects of drugs
– Why people abuse drugs
– How to avoid the misuse of drugs

26. Benefits of drugs
• Drugs can be used to fight and cure disease.
• Some drugs are used as painkillers.
• Drugs can be used to overcome other physical
ailments a person may have.

27. Negative drugs: Cocaine
– What is it? Cocaine is an illegal drug that falls
under the classification of stimulants. It comes
from the coca plant which grows in many areas of
South America.

28. Cocaine
– What effects does it have on the body? Cocaine
speeds up the brain and nervous system. Heart
rate, blood pressure, and pulse all go up. It can
cause people to see things. It can also cause heart
attacks, strokes and seizures. Insomnia is a
common effect.
– It gives the user a feeling of well-being and
strength.
– It may make a person feel happy and excited.

29. Why do people abuse drugs?
• They don’t follow doctors directions.
• They have a low self esteem.
• They become addicted and then can’t stop.
• They are influenced by friends.
• They think, ‘nothing will happen.’

30. Positive Decision Making
• How to keep myself safe and
healthy?

31. What Are Healthy Decisions?
Get involved in
activities.
Participation in
sports.
Play in a band
or orchestra.
Choose friends
that are drug
free.
Learn how to
say “no.”
Have a trusted
adult you can
talk to.
Be honest with
yourself and
others.
Be aware of
consequences
and accept them.
Don’t drink and
drive.

32. Examples of Serious Health Effects
from Drug Use
• Brain damage: ice, heroin, PCP, inhalants, MDMA
• Convulsions/strokes: ice, cocaine, uppers
• Paranoia, psychosis: designer drugs, hallucinogens
• Heart and/or lung damage: PCP, marijuana
• Memory impairment: marijuana
• Liver and/or kidney damage: inhalants, alcohol
• Miscarriage, birth defects: cocaine, heroin, LSD
• Impaired immune system: narcotics, PCP

33. Effects of Drug Abuse
• Mentally : -
• Drug Addiction is a Brain Disease. All Drugs that
abuse act in Brain and produce negative effects
such as : -
• Loss of Memory, Attention, Decision Making
• Depression, Aggression, Paranoia and
Hallucination
• Brain Damage and Stroke

34. Effects of Drug Abuse
• Physically : -
• Develop Liver, Lung and Kidney problem
• Loss sense of Hearing, Smelling, Vision and
huge change in out looks.

35. SCARRY BODY OF AN ADDICT

36. HOW TO PREVENT FROM DRUGS
ADDICTION?
Supervising and monitoring skills
Caring, trusting relationships between parents and children
Warm child rearing style
Communication of positive family values
Setting age appropriate limits, rules and consequences
Praising children appropriately for their behavior and
accomplishments
Structured family life including having meals together
Parents involvement in the lives of their children

37. WHAT IS WORKING IN
TREATMENT
• Brief intervention
• Motivational interviewing
• Cognitive-behavioural therapy
• Contingency therapy
• Family therapy
• Vocational training
• Self help 12 step
• Therapeutic community method
• Long term opioid-agonists
• Slow release opioid-antagonists
• Medications for psychiatric comorbidity
• Integrated pharmacological and psychosocial therapy

38. WHAT IS NOT WORKING IN
TREATMENT
• Prison
• Punishment
• Pure re-education
• Working alone
• Spirituality alone
• Individual psychotherapy alone
• Detoxification without after-care
• Short-term therapy
• Symptoms therapy
• Treatment without assessment

39. REMEMBER 3’S
• Do not Start using drug, even out of curiosity.
• If you are drug user do not Show drug to
others.
• Stop using drug immediately and save your
future.