What is drug?
A drug is any chemical you take that affects the way your bodyworks
Heroin, alcohol, ecstasy, caffeine and nicotine are all forms of drugs.
A drug must be able to pass trough your body and into your brain, allowing brain cells to be changed by interfering with the brains chemical signals.
Meaning of addiction
Addiction is the habitual, psychological and physiological dependence or practice, which is beyond voluntary control.
How drug addiction begins?
Curiosity, friends pressure, frustration and depression, desire for more work, looking for a different world, relief from pain.
History of drugs
When chinese immigrants came to California in the 1850's to work in gold mines and on the railroads, they brought opium smoking with them.
During the 1960's addiction of drugs like marijuana and cocaine came on the scene.
Drug addicts before and after
Here are some drug addicts who are cosuming drug for years and they became addicted to drugs, you can see their transformation.
Sings someone is using drugs
To hang out in school with kids who use drugs
sleep a lot ( even in a class)
Most commonly used addictive drugs
Heroin – proccessed directly from the extracts of the opium poppy.
Cocaine – its obtained from the leaves of the coca plant
Crack cocain – freebase from cocaine that can be smoked
LSD – produced in crystal form in illegal laboratories.
Hard and soft drugs
Hard drugs are physically addictive and may be easy to overdose on
soft drugs are not physically addictive
Death from drugs
Drug abuse kills about 200,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new United Nations (UN) report. Global treatment for drugabuse would cost $250 billion per year if everyone who needed help received proper care
What can you do to help
The best thing to do is to tell an adult that you trust (parent, other relative, teacher, coach)
The person might need professional help to stop using drugs. A grown up can help the person find the treatment he or she needs to stop using drugs
Understanding drugs and why they are dangerous is a good step for a kid to take.