Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse

The term drug abuse is defined as the consumption of substances that produce a state of drunkenness or hallucinations acting stimulant and / or put the consumer in a euphoric mood.

Moreover, excessive consumption of alcohol, nicotine, and falls within the definition of drug abuse. In the narrowest sense is meant, however, the almost exclusively illegal consumption of drugs: opiates (opium, morphine, heroin), euphoric substances such as cocaine or khat, designer drugs (ecstasy, speed) and hallucinogens such as cannabis (hashish, marijuana), mescaline, LSD , Liquid Ecstasy.

Does the concentration of the drug in the body after, there will be depressed, sometimes aggressive moods. To get out of this unpleasant phase again, books by Dieter Wunderlich the person is hungry for a fresh intake of the drug. A drug addiction (the term “addiction” is considered obsolete) means that the dose must be increased to obtain the desired effect. Some drugs – opiates, nicotine, alcohol – lead to a physical dependence, but even if this is not the case, there is a risk of addiction, which is associated with other mental disorders – especially in less stable personalities. Help for mental problems of uncontrolled drug use in any case. A risk of drug abuse is also often available for non-established persons.

Drug addicts often neglect everything else: members themselves, school, work. Not only as a drug dealer but also as a drug user is guilty of an offense in many cases. If the available financial resources no longer for supplies to procure the necessary funds are drug addicts sometimes) by burglaries and other crimes (drug-related crime.

The global annual sales in the illegal drug trade is estimated at 320 billion U.S. dollars. Cocaine comes from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia; opiates are mainly grown in Afghanistan, but also in Burma, Laos and Thailand. West Africa is developing in recent years to the hub of drug trafficking. A portion of this money earned will be invested by the drug cartels) into legitimate businesses (money laundering. “Drug barons” dominate, especially in Colombia and Afghanistan, entire regions. Farmers who depend on poppy production and is dependent on the protection of these drug lords are, it must first be offered another opportunity to build their lives before they can win their support.

In the Fifties housewives took Valium to Nachkriegsverlogenheit with tolerable offset the hippies with LSD in flower, in the eighties yuppie life with accelerated speed, and the eternal youth of the nineties was dancing with ecstasy. (Christina Berndt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6 June 2009)

While there were once more adults who have resorted to drugs – soldiers, intellectuals, the rich and famous, Working under high pressure to perform – they are since the late sixties in the affluent Western societies especially young people. When the hippies cannabis was “mind. In the nightclubs and rave scene, ecstasy and speed to be swallowed in order to be able to dance all night.

Coffee and cigarettes were yesterday. Ritalin and Modafinil will soon be as widespread. The amphetamine-like Ritalin (known as “Vitamin R” trivialized) is actually prescribed for restless children with attention deficit disorder, students and managers to take it to enhance their concentration. And the drug modafinil, which was developed against the sleeping sickness narcolepsy, makes Healthy allegedly extremely awake, some enthusiastic users reported an almost euphoric rush job. Even drugs for heart disease, Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia to be taken to address or to devour the memory spice [...]
As the brain-doping in the long run makes with the brain, is unpredictable. Only the acute effects are clearly described. They range from headaches and nausea than concentrating, depression and irritability to anxiety.