Substance abuse disorder is the one that knows more than one addiction, its causes, and how it affects the individual and society.

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SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER

2. content
1. Introduction (SUD,drugs & types).
2. What is addiction?
3. Types of substance abuse.
4. Incidence rate.
5. Causes of drug addiction.
6. Clinical picture.
7. How to overcome drug addiction?
8. Substance abuse and society.

3. • substance use disorder (SUD) is a treatable
mental disorder that affects a person's brain and
behavior, leading to their inability to control their
use of substances like legal or illegal drugs,
alcohol, or medications.
what is SUD?

4. what is drug?
• any substant, other than food, used in the
prevention, diagnosis, alleviation or treatment
of a disease is called a drug.

5. Types of drugs
Type of Drug Examples Effect
Stimulants (uppers) • caffeine (coffee, tea)
• nicotine (cigarettes)
• amphetamines
• cocaine
• diet pills
• speed up the brain and central
nervous system.
• make a peron more wakeful, alert and
active, cause excitment.
Depressants (downers) • alcohol
• beer, wine, vodka
• heroin
• sleeping pills.
• Slow down the brain and central
nervous system.
• give feeling of calmness, relaxation,
drowsiness.
Hallucinogens • LSD
• ecstasy
• magic mushrooms
• marijuana.
• These drugs alter the user's state of
consciousness. (Distort auditory and
visual sensations).
• alter thoughts, feeling and
perceptions.

6. what is Addiction?
• Addiction is the habitual, psychological and physiological
dependence on a substance or practice. Which is beyond
voluntary control.
• Drug addiction is A chronic disease affecting the brain, and just
about everyone is different.
• Drugs affect different people in different ways. One person can
take and abuse drugs, yet never become addicted, while another
merely has one experience and is immediately hooked.

7. what is Addiction?
• Addiction is not limited to drugs and alcohol. People can be addicted to
many things, such as food, gambling, shopping, or most anything that
gets in the way of a healthy lifestyle. When things get out of hand, and
people behave compulsively, regardless of the consequences.
• When the person is no longer in charge of their life, regardless of the
triggering mechanism, they are addicted. The addiction can take over a
person's entire life. Nothing else matters.

8. TYPES OF SUBTANCE ABUSE
• Alcohol dependence.
• Opioids.
• Cannabis.
• Sedative and hypnotics.
• Cocaine.
• Caffeine and other stimulants.
• Hallucinogen.
• Volatile solvent.
• Anesthetics.

9. Incidence Rate

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11. CAUSES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE
A. BIOLOGICAL FACTOR
B. PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR
C. SOCIAL FACTOR

12. BIOLOGICAL FACTOR
• GENETIC FACTOR= Family history of
substance use disorder.
• BIOCHEMICAL FACTOR= for example role of
dopamine and non epinephrine have been
implicated in cocaine, ethanol and opioids
dependence.

13. PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR
• Sense of inferiority.
• Poor impulse control.
• Low self-esteem.
• Desire to escape from reality.
• Pleasure seeking.

14. SOCIAL FACTOR
• Peer pressure.
• Urbanization.
• Unemployment.
• Over crowding.
• Poor social support

15. How drug addiction Begins?
1. Curiosity
2. Friend's pressure
3. Frustration and Depression
4. Desire for More Work
5. Looking for a Different World
6. Relief from Pain
7. Family History
8. Excitement and Adventure

16. How drug addiction Begins?

17. How drug addiction Begins?
STAGE 1
• CURIOSITY IS THE
MOTIVATOR
• LEARNING TO
TRUST/MISTRUST
THE DRUG
• "HIGH" IS STILL A
NEW FEELING
STAGE 2
• USER IS THINKING
MORE ABOUT DRUGS
• PREVIOUS
RELATIONSHIP
BECOMES DIFFICUt
• USER USES WHEN
ALONE
• USER STILL THINKS
THEY HAVE CONTROL
STAGE 3
• SEEKS OUT THE
"HIGH"
• HAS CONFIDENCE
IN USING THE DRUG
• USER THINK THE
DRUG WON'T HURT
THE
• PEER GROUP
USES
STAGE 4
• CAN NO LONGER
GET HIGH
• USER USES THE
DRUG TO AVOID
BEING SICK
• DRUGS BECOME
THE CENTER OF
THEIR LIFE

18. clinical picture
Alcohol
Malaise.
Dyspepsia.
Depression.
Increase incidence
of infection.
Deniar of problem.
Anger.
OPIOID
Apathy.
Bradycardia.
Hypotension.
Subnormal
temperature.
Insomnia.
AMPHETAMINE
Cardiac failure.
panic.
insomnia.
paranoid hallunatory
syndrome.
COCAINE
pupillary dilatation.
trachycardia.
sweating.
nausea.
hypertension.
anorexia.
seizure.

19. BUILD A MEANINGFUL DRUG FREE LIFE
• Pick a new hobby
• Adopt pet
• Get involved in your community
• Set meaningful goals
• Look after your health

20. OVERCOMING DRUG ADDICTION
• Lean on close friends and family
• Build a sober social network
• Consider moving into a sober living home
• Make meetings a priority
• Make break with old drug buddies
• Avoid bars and clubs
• Use caution with prescription drugs

21. COPING WITH DRUG CRAVINGS
• Get involved in some distracting activities
• Talk it through
• Urge surf
• Challenge and change your thoughts

22. Substance abuse and society
• Spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C
through sharing needles.
• CRIME

23. questions

24. prepared by
Zeinab Emad younis Abdel-Rahman
Faculty of medicine
King Salman International university, EGYPT
E-mail: zeinabemadwahdan@gmail.com
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