Drug Use

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Drug Use

Drug use is part of life in the United States. Some people use drugs for
medical purposes and some use them to escape from reality or as a way to
cope with problems. There are two main types of drugs, medicines and
psychoactive drugs. Medicines are used to help the body fight injury and
psychoactive drugs are used to cause a change in the users brain activity.
Psychoactive drugs are very dangerous. They produce very powerful changes
in the body. What a drug does is called its action and unwanted effects are
called side effects. The side effects of a psychoactive drug can range from
uncomfortable to life threatening. Abuse of a psychoactive drug often results in
dependence or addiction where the body needs the drug to function normally.
Withdrawal happens when the body is reacting to not having the drug.
Withdrawal can be very painful. There are many risks of using drugs besides
what they do to you. You can get AIDS from sharing needles, it can cause
mental and physical problems in babies, family relationships can be strained,
there are sever legal risks, and there are major cost to society. There are
many reason why people us drugs. There are 3 major factors that contribute
to the risk of drug abuse in teens. Those factors are family, social, and
personal. A family risk factor is poor relationships with family members. If
teens have close relationships with their family member they are less likely to
experiment with drugs. But if parents do no guide their children and are not
supportive of them then they might alienate from the family and feel closer to
peers so they are more vulnerable to drug abuse. Social factors are peer
pressure. Your friends urge you to try a drug and you do it to be “accepted”.
Another factor is personal factors. These are stress, low self-esteem and lack
of confidence tha

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