Drug addiction and substance abuse: problems of dealing with them, prevention. OBZhD

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After the collapse of the USSR, many of Russia's borders with the former fraternal republics became transparent and conditional. As a result, a flow of drugs poured from Afghanistan through Kazakhstan (the border with Russia is 7500 km) into Russia. As a result, the mass distribution and use of drugs of all kinds began, which took on the scale of a national disaster.

Drug addiction is a serious disease caused by the abuse of narcotic substances and the acquired pathological dependence of the body on calming, intoxicating, visionary substances (drugs). And having appeared once, the mechanism of dependence on drugs operates constantly.

Substance abuse is a disease characterized by a pathological addiction to substances that are not considered as drugs.

Drug addiction is a disease. Children of alcoholics are 4 times more likely than other people to become ill with alcoholism and drug addiction. The presence of heredity proves that in a sick person, in the process of drinking alcohol or drugs, changes occur at the biological level. Drug addiction or alcoholism cannot be cured by simply replacing the drug or alcohol with a drug. In the process of using drugs and alcohol, a person develops a mental defense that prevents him from seeing and correctly explaining what is happening to him.

The main defense against chemical addiction is denial. A sick person himself does not suspect what is happening to him, and even if he wants to stop using drugs, he cannot change what he has no idea about. The main change in the spiritual sphere is the loss of the meaning of life, the emergence of a sense of one's worthlessness. Drug addicts themselves note that drug use in itself becomes the only meaning of life. For them, this is more important than study, work, sex, relationships with loved ones and much more.

Most people who suffer from problems caused by drug use believe that it is enough to stop using them and life will get better. This is where the basic paradox of chemical addiction comes into play: in order to rebuild your life and recover, you must stay clean and sober, and the damage caused by drug use itself does not allow you to lead such a lifestyle. The most common consequences of drug use for physical health are diseases of the cardiovascular system and respiratory tract, hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver, psychosis, epilepsy, etc. Depression, feelings of guilt, impotence, hopelessness, resentment and indignation develop. Spiritual qualities are violated: apathy appears, the loss of the meaning of life, a person begins to feel the hostility of the surrounding world.

The social consequences of drug addiction are the dependence of a drug addict on a drug seller, obtaining money not by labor, and sometimes even by criminal means. Drug addiction, prostitution, murders, robberies, AIDS - this is a single anti-social tangle. The treatment of drug addicts and the maintenance of their sick children is a heavy social burden. Moreover, drug addiction treatment is a long and expensive process.

Authors: Ivanyukov M.I., Alekseev V.S.

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