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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Are You Drug Addiction?

Drug addiction can be take place to every body who use whether to legal or illegal drug. It,s makes anybody use drug and drug again to meet his or her addiction of one drug addiction cause. When you stop taking it, you may have unpleasant physical reactions.

Many drug group such as narcotics and cocaine are cause drug addiction then are other drugs. The addiction drugs people could affect to himself or herself to doing negative social behaviour such as embarrassment, depressions, and other negative social behaviour can be do.
Breaking drug addiction is difficult, but not impossible. You may need support from your family, relatives, close friends, doctor and other who have been stopped from drug addiction . It,ll be helpful to you. If you have high motivation to stop it, certain you will be succes to quiet from it, and you will enjoy from your life again. Freedom yourself from these drgus.

What are signs and symptoms of drug addiction?
Before we go to sign and symptom of drug addiction, better first if we know, what are group of drug cause adiiction . These are drugs to which you can become addicted is wide, including:
  • Canabis compound: These compound are found in marijuana and hashish

  • Central nervous System Depressant: Barbiturates and benzodiazepines are examples of central nervous system depressant. Phenobarbital, amobarbital (Amytal) and secobarbital (Seconal) are examples are barbiturates. Benzodiazepines include tranquilizers such as Diazepam (Valium), Alprazolam (Xanax), Oxazepam (Serax), Lorazepam (Ativan), Clonazepam (Klonopin)and Chlordiazepoxide (Librium).

  • Central Nervous system stimulants : This class of drugs includeamphetamines, methaphentamines,cocaine, and methylphenidate (Ritalin).

  • Designer Drugs: Synthetic compounds such as Ectasy, which has both amphetamine- like and halluginogenic effects, are include in this category.

  • Hallucinogens: Incluse the group are LSD, phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine (special K) are examples are halucinogens. Hallucinogens effect incluceed in this category.

  • Inhalant: Glue, paint, solvent and nitrious oxide can all be used as inhalant drugs.

  • Opioids: Opioids are narcotic, painkilling drugs product naturally from opium or mada shyntetically. This class of drugs including heroin, morphine,codeine, methadone and oxycodone (Oxycontin).


  • General signs and Symptoms
    Addiction to any drug may include these general characteristics:
  • Feeling that you need the drug regulary and in some cases, many times a day.

  • Making certain that you maintain supply of the drug,

  • Failling repeatetedly in your attemps to stop using drug

  • Doing thing to obtain the drug that you normally wouldn't do, such as stealing

  • Feeling that you need the drug to deal your problems.

  • Driving or doing other activities that place you and others at risk of physical harm when you're under the influence of the drug.


  • The particular signs and symptoms of drug use dependence vary depending on the type of the drug.
    Canabis compound signs and symptoms:
  • A sense of relaxtion and happiness.

  • A heightened sense of visual, auiditory, and taste perception

  • Poor memory

  • Increase blood pressure and heart rate

  • Red eyes
  • Decrease coordination

  • Difficulty concrentration

  • Increase appetite

  • Slowed reaction time

  • Paranoid thinking


  • Central nervous system depressant: Signs and symptoms:
  • Drowsiness

  • Slurred speech

  • Lack of coordination

  • Memory impairment

  • Confusion

  • Slowed breathing and decrease blood pressure

  • Dizziness

  • Depression


  • Central nervous system stimulant: Signs and symptoms
  • Euphoria

  • Decrease appetite

  • Rapid speech

  • Irritability

  • Restlesness

  • Depression as the drug wears off

  • Nasal congestion and damage to the mocous membrane of the nose in users who snort drug

  • Imsomnia

  • Weight loss

  • Increase heart rate, blood pressure and temperature

  • Paranoida


  • Designer drug: Signs and symptoms:
    Sign and symptoms of using designer drugs vary depending on the drug. You might be able to tell that a family, member of friend is using or abusing a drug base on the physical and behavioural signs and symptoms assosiated with the drug. Ectasy produces a mild hallucinogenic effect and a feeling of euphoria. It also cause an increase heart rate, overheating, high blood pressure, kidney and liver toxicity and memory promlems.

    Hallucinogen: Signs and symptoms:
    Use of hallucinogens produce s different signs and symptoms depending on the drug. The most commond hallucinogens are LSD, PCP, and ketamine, a so-called"club drug".

    Signs and symptoms of LSD use include:
  • Hallucinations

  • Greatly impaired perception of reality, for example, interpretating input from one of your sense as another,such hearing colors.

  • Permanent mental changes in perception

  • Rapid heart rate

  • High blood pressure

  • Tremors

  • Flashbacks, a re-experince of the hallucinations, even years later


  • Signs and symptoms of PCP use include:
  • Hallucination

  • Euphoria

  • Delusions

  • Panic

  • Loss of appetite

  • Depression

  • Agresive, possible violent behaviour


  • Signs and Symptoms of ketamine use include:
  • Increase heart rate

  • Nausea and vomiting

  • Numbness

  • Impaired motor funtion

  • Loss of memory


  • Inhalants: Signs and Symptoms:
    The sign and symptom of inhalant use is vary depending on what subtance is inhaled. Some commonly inhaled subtance include glue, paint thinners, corretion fluid, felt tip marker fluid, gasoline, cleaning fluid,and household aerosol products. Whwn inhaled these products can cause brief intoxicication and a decreased feeling of inhibition. Long term use may cause seizures and damage to the brain, liver,and kidneys. Inhalants use can also cause death

    Opioids: Signs and symptoms:
  • Reduce sense of pain

  • Sedation

  • Depression
  • Confusion

  • Constipation

  • Slowed breathing
  • Needle mark (if injection drugs)


  • Source of news from CNN.com

    1 comment:

    Prince K. said...

    Thanks for visiting!!!
    I'll surely exhange...
    Nice blog you've got here... a blog with a message!!!
    DRUGS SHOULD BE BANNED IN THE WORLD!!!