2. Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that
affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an inability to
control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication.
4. Drug dependence occurs when you need one or more drugs to
function. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) used to
distinguish between dependence and abuse. Abuse was considered
the mild or early phase of inappropriate drug use that led to
dependence. People viewed dependence as a more severe problem
than abuse.
7. Drugs have different effects depending on the drug itself, the
person taking it and their surroundings. Learn how your body
processes drugs and about the short-term and long-term effects.
Taking drugs can affect not just your physical and mental health,
but your whole life. Just one pill can kill.
8. The effects of drug abuse
1. Aggressive or irritability
2. Emotional volatile
3. hallucinations
4. A weekend immune system
5. Nausea and abdominal pain
6. Mental health
Financial issues
Relationships
Legal issues
9.
10. 5 kinds of psychoactive drugs
Stimulants Increase central nervous
system activation.
Depressants Reduce central nervous
system activation.
Narcotics (Opioids) A substance used
to treat moderate to severe pain.
11. *Hallucinogens Hallucinogens are a large and diverse class of psychoactive drugs
that can produce altered states of consciousness characterized by major alterations
in thought, mood, and perception, among other changes.
Marijuana (Cannabis) is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant. Native to
Central and South Asia, the cannabis plant has been used as a drug for both
recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various traditional medicines for
centuries.
