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Addiction develops rapidly and is accompanied by the absorption of large doses of narcotic substances. The course of the disease in these cases is severe, and it ends, as a rule, catastrophically.

Narcotic substances have an extremely pronounced effect on the human body. Nerve cells under the influence of drugs lose their function, the body's defenses are sharply reduced. Literally all organs and systems of the body suffer. A person's personality is subjected to a deep deformation, and serious mental illness often develops.

The processes of vital activity with regular anesthesia proceed in the conditions of the constant presence of the drug in the body, and the cessation of its use disrupts these processes.

Physical attraction serves as a signal of the need for a drug that has already become vital. At the onset of the disease, the attraction to the drug is expressed by a disorder of mental functions (irritability, depressed mood, inability to concentrate), and then signs of a physical condition disorder appear: sweating, palpitations, dry mouth, muscle weakness, trembling of the limbs, pallor, dilated pupils.

If the drug does not enter the body for more than a day, an abstinence syndrome develops - a painful condition accompanied by severe mental and physical disorders, in some cases life-threatening.

Against the background of an indomitable attraction, excitement, anxiety, anxiety, fear arise, often replaced by thoughts of hopelessness.

Depending on the type of drug, convulsive seizures and acute psychosis with impaired consciousness, an influx of hallucinations, and delirium may occur during the withdrawal period. The function of all body systems is impaired. Blood pressure rises, heart rate increases sharply. Muscles are tense, there are severe muscle pains and trembling, twitching and convulsions. Characterized by restlessness, which alternates with severe weakness and immobility. The work of the digestive apparatus is disrupted: vomiting, diarrhea, pain in the stomach and along the intestines occur, there is no appetite, sleep is disturbed.

As the disease develops, the body becomes completely depleted, tolerance to the drug decreases, and previous doses cause severe poisoning. Without the drug, the state of weakness is so strong that he can die. Often, however, medical assistance is ineffective.

Death threatens the drug addict not only in far-reaching cases, it lies in wait for him from the very first weeks of the disease. Patients die from accidental overdose, from taking unknown, untested substances, from infection by injection.

Mental exhaustion determines deep emotional disorders: depressions develop, during which suicides are committed. Weakening of the body contributes to the development of infectious diseases; even a mild illness can lead to death. An addict intoxicated easily becomes a victim of an accident.

Addiction - a disease that develops with the abuse of narcotic substances and is expressed in a pathological craving for these substances, increasing uncontrolled abuse of them.

One of the signs of drug addiction is an irresistible craving for euphoria, achieved through the use of a narcotic substance; the ability to euphoric sensations decreases with the development of the disease. In drug addiction, the vital activity of the body is maintained at a certain level only under the condition of constant intake of a narcotic substance. Abrupt cessation of drug use causes a violation of many body functions - withdrawal.

With the regular intake of the required dose of the drug, the patient's condition improves, so drug addiction is formed.

Drug craving is a very stable symptom, so the addict is not able to critically assess his condition for a long time, and, as a rule, he does not want to be treated. Therefore, drug addicts are treated forcibly.

Society fights drug addiction and prevents its spread. In all countries of the world, persons illegally producing or distributing drugs are subject to criminal punishment. In most countries, a drug addict who evades treatment is criminalized.

The fight against drug addiction provides for strict criminal liability for violation of the rules for dealing with drugs by imprisonment: for the illegal manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation or shipment for household purposes, as well as the illegal sale of narcotic substances; for inducing the use of narcotic substances for up to 5 years, and if this act is committed against two or more persons or a minor, then it is punishable by imprisonment up to ten years.

For the theft of narcotic drugs entrusted to storage in connection with the official position with the deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities.

Now negative impact of the human environment manifests itself in the development of an abiological tendency in the organization of life (smoking, drug addiction, alcoholism, etc.), an increase in the proportion of chronic diseases, the development of occupational diseases, etc.

Authors: Alekseev V.S., Zhidkova O.I., Tkachenko N.V.

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