10 Drug Abuse Facts

Drug abuse means such a chaos that is caused by excessive use of really harmful substances or you can say by the regular use of some narcotic drugs. The most affected people by means of drug abuse lie in the category of young generation. They not only use many stimulant drugs, but also become addict of it.  Ultimately, they suffer the consequence in the form of weak concentration and memory loss. In addition, we cannot ignore the health losses as well. Here are some key facts about drug abuse.

1. Physical Drug Addiction

Physical drug addiction is the most harmful type of drug abuse and its bad impact appears in the form of both psychological as well as physical disorder. With the time being, the demand of taking drugs become more and people cannot live without using it.

2. Psychological Drug Addiction

Psychological drug addiction falls in the category of subjective feelings. People, who become addict of such drug addiction, feel pleasure by subjective use of drugs.

3. Way of Drugs Influence

Drugs affect the human body in two different ways. In first way, they disturb the chemical messenger process of brain and in second case, these drugs over stimulate the reward circuit of human brain.

4. Death Rate by Drug use

The death in America by the direct use of drugs is estimated 16,000 annually. However, in indirect cases, the use of drugs become the cause many other diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis etc. So, this indirect affect also become the cause of more deaths annually.

5. Who People are mostly abused

The people, who have been found greatly involved in drug abuse, belong to either food or construction business.  The other people that are found to be highly involved in drug abuse are like labors, auto-mechanics, drivers etc.

6. Signs of Drug Use

If you want to estimate the symptoms of drug use, you must examine the level of anxiety, depression, hopelessness etc. These are the most widely appeared symptoms in case of drug abuse.

7. Reason behind children motivation

Parents, who are used to be drug abuse, cannot pay full attention towards their children. The result comes out in the form of poor school performance and vulgar activities.

8. Community Largely Reported

It is reported that the community largely affected by excessive drug use, belong to Africa and America. While, ethnic group of people are found to be less affected than Africans and Americans.

9. Cause of Car Accidents

Another bad impact of excessive drug use appears in the form of more card accidents. It is estimated that almost 10-22 percent of road accidents have been caused by means of extreme drugs use.

10. Women Drug Addiction Rate

The use of drugs in women is also not very less as compared to men. According to a recent survey, almost 1.8 million older women use alcohol, 2.8 million use narcotic drugs and 4.4 million women smoke cigarettes.