Some drugs are used in sustaining our health as a well being and some if abused endangers our social morality and mental health behaviours. That's the reason why children taught of substance abuse instead of drugs abuse because children can confuse the good drugs for prevention and treatment of diseases with dangerous ones. To avoid this confusion addictively abused drugs are taught as 'substance abuse'. The substance abuse also compries of other substance which are not necessarily drugs ,commonly abused by young children .Especially a peer rebel group which is against the social and school rules ,the means and goals. This group then formulated their rebel laws to take new 'wild' life. Since these rebel children don't normally employed so they abused inhalants readily available and sometimes very cheaper. These inhalants are also found in the household like solvents ,gasses and nitrites.
When these inhalants abused ,the abuser experience dizziness ,loss of balance ,slurred speech and vomiting. For example, Glue-niffers ended in sleepy ,unconscious condition. This mood, is the rebel children managed to condition their minds to live a 'wildy' life without home or any stable shelter ,but alternatively make use of streets,bridges or caves as a home.
The effectiveness of these inhalants ,intoxication to influence the brain depends with the amount inhaled ,otherwise some lasts several hours or a day. If these inhalants repeated for some time the abuser can easily lost the consciousness permanently which consequently caused to change the behaviours negatively as adopt anti-human attitudes , norms and values.
Substances like solvents or aerosol sprays usually sniffed has detrimental negative effects on heart problems and can result to death. Fluorocarbons and butane-type gases are the most dangerous substances.
The major symptoms found in the sniffers and are irreversible effects include loss of hearing,limb spasms,brain damage and bone marrow damage. However some deadly effects like liver ,kidney damage and blood oxygen depletion can be reversible.
A drug is a chemical agent which can treat or prevent diseases or can change the function of mind as it acts in brain and other body parts.These chemicals can be addictive if taken regulary without the instructions of medical practitioners and taking it regulary without limit leads to withdrawal problems. The addictive drugs are grouped into seven categories which are: hallucinogens,opates,nicotine ,amphetamines/cocaine,caffeine,cannabis and alcoholic related drugs.
World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a model list ,first issued in 1977 and updated three times with 220 drugs and vaccines used in the treatment and prevention of common diseases. Each state affiliated to WHO follow this list when stork all these medical supplies to serve the health needs of all its citizens. In addition some states established their research units to produce their own lists of esential drugs and beef up their storks. The use of list help for the health practitioners to give patients recognised drugs and avoid dangerous treatments.
Nevertheless most of the seven categories of the addictive drugs mentioned above can be abused.
Caffaine a legal drug found in tea and coffee is widely proved to reduce heart problems,suppress the addiction to nicotine ,satisfy hunger ,relieve pain and fatigue ,is also dangerous if consumed to access can cause health problems. As a result in tea and coffee beverages the caffeine reduced its concentration to avoid too much addiction and withdrawal problems.
Nicotine which found in tobacco cigarettes is one of the most addictive drug ,compaigned as,''Anti-tobacco compaign'' as WHO issued statistics which shows that nocotine related deaths are more than HIV&AIDS related deaths. The compaign resulted in banning of tobacco advertised in sports,cigerattes smoking in the public places especially transport and so on prohibited. The advertiser first give a health warning statement that ,''Tobacco is hazardous to health'' and other restrictive measures adopted ,The works of nicotine is almost the same with heroin ,both of them cause more health and social problems, which needs holistic approach to get comprehensive solutions.
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