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Consequences of drug use on human health
Addiction develops rapidly and is accompanied by absorption of large amounts of drugs. Course of the disease in these cases is difficult, and it ends, usually catastrophically.
Drugs have on the human body is extremely pronounced effect. Nerve cells under the influence of drugs lose their function, sharply lower the body's defenses. Affected virtually all organs and body systems. Deep strain exposed person's identity, often develop a serious mental illness.
Processes of life with regular anesthesia occur under conditions of continuous presence of the drug in the body, and the termination of its acceptance violates these processes.
Signal the need for drugs, which has already become a vital, is physical attraction. In early disease attraction to the drug expressed frustration mental functions (irritability, depressed mood, inability to focus), and then there are signs of physical impairments: sweating, palpitations, dry mouth, muscle weakness, trembling of the limbs, pallor, dilated pupils.
If the drug does not enter the body more than a day, developing a withdrawal syndrome - a painful condition associated with severe mental and physical disorders, in some cases life-threatening.
On the background of the indomitable desire arise excitement, restlessness, anxiety, fear, often alternating with thoughts of hopelessness.
Depending on the type of drug in abstinent period may have seizures and acute psychosis with loss of consciousness, the influx of hallucinations, delusions. Disrupted the function of all body systems. Increased blood pressure, heartbeat quickens dramatically. Muscles tense, there are severe muscle aches and trembling, twitching and convulsions. Characterized by restlessness, which alternates with severe weakness and immobility. Disrupted digestive system: there is vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, and in the course of bowel, no appetite, disturbed sleep.
As the disease occurs deep exhaustion, falls tolerability of the drug, previous doses cause severe poisoning. Without the drug state of weakness so strong that he may die. Often, when this care is provided without result.
Death threatens not only the addict in advanced cases, it lies in wait for him since the first weeks of the disease. Patients die from an accidental overdose from receiving unknown, untested substances from infection with injections.
Mental exhaustion defines deep emotional disorders areas: developing depression during which committed suicide. Weakening of the body contributes to the development of infectious diseases; even non-severe disease can lead to death. Addict, drunk easily become a victim of an accident.
Addiction - a disease that develops when substance abuse and are expressed in the craving for this substance, growing uncontrolled abuse.
One of the signs of addiction - uncontrollable urge to euphoria achieved by taking drugs; ability to euphoric sensations with the development of the disease is reduced. For drug activity of human body is maintained at a certain level only when continuous use of narcotic substances. Abrupt discontinuation of the drug is a violation of many body functions - abstinence.
With regular use of the required dose of the drug the patient's condition improves, so formed Drug addiction.
Attraction to the drug - a symptom of a very stable, so long the addict is not able to critically evaluate their condition, and, as a rule, he does not want to be treated. Therefore addicts treated compulsorily.
Society is struggling with drug addiction and prevent its spread. In all countries of the world are subject to criminal penalties persons producing or distributing illegal drugs. In most countries, the criminal punished addict, deviating from the treatment.
Drug addiction involves a strict criminal liability for violation of the rules for handling drug imprisonment: the illegal manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation or shipment with the aim of life, as well as the illegal sale of drugs; inducement to consume drugs for up to 5 years, and if the offense is committed in respect of two or more persons or a minor, it shall be punished with imprisonment up to ten years.
For stealing narcotics entrusted deposited in connection with the official position with the deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities.
At present the negative impact of the human environment is manifested in the development abiological trends in the organization of life (smoking, drugs, alcohol, etc.), increase the proportion of chronic diseases, the development of occupational diseases, etc.
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