Social Consequences Of Drug Abuse

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SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG ABUSE

First of all, what is drug abuse? According to ("Substance Use", 2017) , drug abuse is the continue use of alcohol, illegal drugs or the misuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs with negative consequences. These consequences may involve: problems at work, school, home or interpersonal relationship and problems with the law. As we all know, abuse of drug and alcohol is a widespread issue that seriously alarming the government around the world. Especially in the half-urban country like India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand and Pakistan or even non-urban country such as Thailand and China as well. The drugs usually abused are Heroin, Hallusinogens, Inhalents and Amphetamines. Based on the ( ' …show more content…

Drug abuse doesn 't just effects the addict, it also has a far-reaching impact which comprise with the person around you which is family, fellow, hirer and community as a whole. The person who is addicted in drugs may have difficulty in communication or even prone to mood swings to their life partner. Such situation will be more difficult to deal with if they have children. Relationship always cannot compete with euphoric sensibleness of substance use, the user will generally not to put more time to retaining the relationship, let other damaging components to happen to surface. And at last, it lead to damage the relationship with their love one. Besides, over depend on substance abuse affects the sentimental, financial, and also psychological with family. For teen who have drug abuse will escape themselves from family activities, or will have bad relationship with their siblings, because when one take drugs, they will get anger easily, anxiety , thay cannot concentrate on one thing, and their they will become really judgemental and picky on everythings to their family and more critically, they perhaps will steal from parents or sibling to get money for …show more content…

Their brain already damage by the drugs, they can 't concentrate on school work, the brain system will make them slow in motion and thinking , and they are more likely to commit in crime. So , school will think of to kick out the students who take drugs to prevent crime happen in school and also community. No doubt that one who having drugs will begin to have financial problem, and drugs abuser will start to sell all their belongings such as phone, cars, jewelry and even house to buy more drugs. Regarding on workplace, it 's necessary for workers, manager and supervisor to aware that the effects of drug abuse at workplace. According to ("Substance Abuse And Work Productivity", 2017), in the US, the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that nearly 75% of all illicit drug users were employed. Back then, this equated to a total of around 13.4 million people, which indicates that there was a fairly high chance of actually working with someone who abused drugs, reference from ( ' 'Substance Abuse And Work Productivity ' ', 2017). Also an information from ( ' 'substance Abuse And Work Productivity ' ', 2017), In Australia, the 2004 National Drug Strategy Household Survey found that 4.4% of all employee went to work affected by alcohol and around 2% went to work affected by illicit drugs; on top of that, 6% of survey participants stated that the workplace was