Thursday, July 3, 2014

One of the World's Two Hundred People Use Drugs

Information data from the UNODC said, the prevalence of drug users around the world with an age range 15-64 years to reach 243 million people. Meanwhile, the number of adult drug users about 27 souls, or 0.6 percent of the adult population worldwide aged. That is, there are about one in two hundred people around the world use drugs.

Yury Fedotov delivered demikain, Executive Director of UNODC, at the International Day against Drugs in Vienna on Thursday (26/6). On the occasion, Yury noted the importance to focus on health and human rights approach to drug users, especially injecting drug users and those who have been affected by HIV/AIDS.

According to Yury, drug users are still having trouble getting access to health services. According to him, only one of the six drug users who can get health care.

In response to the increasingly complex problems of drugs, Yury asserted that the ideal drug treatment is an attempt to balance supply and demand. In the context of a reduction in demand, he requested that such efforts should be based on concrete evidence that the response is focused on integrated prevention and rehabilitation. 

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

More Electric Cigarette Smoking Dangers Of Fair?


The assumption that during these states electric cigarettes are healthier than regular cigarettes was wrong, electric cigarettes as dangerous as regular cigarettes burned.

The content of propylene glycol, glycol and glycerin dieter as solvent nicotine was found to cause cancer.

"Maybe people think electric cigarettes contain only nicotine, and regular cigarettes when there are other materials," said Chief BPOM Kustantinah Indonesia in Jakarta, Friday, August 13, 2010.

Kustantinah explains the electric cigarette liquid nicotine contained the solvent propylene glycol, glycol or glycerin dieter. If nicotine is heated and then the solvent will produce nitrosamines. "Nitrosamine compound that causes cancer."

Kustantinah added, all electric cigarette circulating in Indonesia is illegal and harmful to health. Around the world, he also revealed that there is no single country that approved the electric cigarette. Even in some countries such as Australia, Brazil and China cigarette electrically prohibited.

"Though China that find electric cigarette in 2003. However, the Chinese government has banned the circulation," he explains.

For that BPOM with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Industry and Trade Ministry will examine more deeply about the electric cigarette. "Electronic Cigarettes will never be registered, approved and will be banned in Indonesia," he said.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Definition of Drugs


Narcotics and Drugs (drugs) or Narcotics, Psychotropic Substances and Additives (drug) is a substance/substance that can affect the mental condition/psychology person (thoughts, feelings and behavior) and can cause physical and psychological dependence.

Narcotics are substances or drugs derived from plant or not plant either synthetic or semi-synthetic that can cause degradation or alteration of consciousness, loss of taste, reduce to eliminate pain, and can lead to dependence.

Psychotropic substance or drug that is natural and not synthetic psychoactive drug that is efficacious through a selective effect on the nervous system and causes typical changes in mental activity and behavior.

Listed below are the types of drugs included:

A. Opium (Heroin, Morphine)

Derived from the opium, the juice of the opium poppy.  In quintessence right opium from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) and distilled to make morphine, codeine, and heroin. Opium used for centuries as a pain reliever (preventing cough, diarrhea, etc.).

Symptoms of symptoms arising from the use of opiates:
1. Feeling calm and happy
2. Indifferent (apathy)
3. Lazy move
4. Drowsiness
5. Nausea
6. Speaking lisp
7. Pupils narrowed (widened if overdose)
8. Impaired attention/memory


B. Cannabis
Cannabis is known to trigger psychosis, especially for those who have a background (genes). Marijuana can also trigger and mixing between anxiety and depression

Symptoms of marijuana use:
1. Sense happy and unhappy
2. Relaxed and weak
3. Indifferent
4. Eyes red
5. Increased appetite
6. Mouth dry
7. Temperance and less concentration
8. Depression and frequent yawning/sleepy


C. Amphetamines (meth, ecstasy)
Ecstasy (methylene dioxy methamphetamine)/MDMA is one type of drug that is illegally made ??in a laboratory in the form of tablets. Ecstasy will encourage the body to perform activities that exceed the maximum limits of the power of the body itself. Lack of body fluids may occur as a result of high exertion and time, which often leads to death.

The symptoms of amphetamine use
1. Vigilance increased
2. Pumped
3. Taste happy/unhappy
4. Dilated pupils
5. Pulse rate and blood pressure increases
6. Difficult to sleep/insomnia
7. Loss of appetite


D. Cocaine


Cocaine is one addictive substance that is often misused. Cocaine is an alkaloid obtained from the coca plant Erythroxylon shrub, a native of South America, where the leaves of this shrub plants typically chewed by the locals to get a stimulant effect, such as to increase endurance, stamina, reduce fatigue, and hunger for euphoric effect.

Symptoms of cocaine use
1. Restlessness and increased pulse
2. Euphoria/elation excessive
3. Lot of talk and increases alertness
4. Seizures and blood pressure increases
5. Sweating and easier fighting
6. Blockage of blood vessels
7. Dystonia (neck muscle stiffness)


Drug Abuse

very great danger, not only damage the body, but also the future. Drug abuse cause damage to organs but it also poses a dangerous disease difficult to cure, such as cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and even mental illness


DRUG ABUSE CAUSE FACTORS
Factors that encourage

1. Weak self control
2. Conditions of family life
3. Temperament difficult
4. Experiencing behavioral disorders
5. Likes alone and struggled
6. Achievement lower school
7. Not accepted in the group
8. Befriend users



1. Factors individually
Most started as a teenager, because adolescents are changing biological, psychological and social rapidly. The characteristics of adolescents who have a greater risk of drug use, such as lack of confidence, easily frustrated, aggressive, moody, shy, reserved and so forth.

2. Environmental Factor

Environmental factors include family factors and unfavorable milieu around the home, school, peers, and society, such as parent and child communication is not good, parents are divorced, married again, parents are too busy, indifferent, authoritarian parents and so on .


Drug Abuse Prevention
1. Role of Youth, skills training, alternative activities to fill free time, such as sporting events, arts, etc..
2. Role of Parents
3. Creating a healthy home, harmonious, harmony, love, affection and open communication.
4. Parenting, good parenting.
5. Becoming a good example.
6. Becoming a good watchdog.

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 What Are the Effects of Drug Use

Monday, June 30, 2014

What Are the Effects of Drug Use


For example, for the people in the interior of Sumatra, consuming cannabis (Cannabis or Marijuana) as a spice in cooking is a natural thing. Because, as the tree grows wild in the remote forests of Sumatra, such as Aceh, of course, can be used by local residents for family cooking material that serves as a flavoring.

Or when we go to the hospital, the morphine type drug often used the medicine for drug resistant. If there is an operation for a patient, like it or not the hospital or the medical team will provide injectable numbness (immune) so as not to feel pain during surgery.

Actually, by definition drug itself is a drug derived from a plant or not plant, either synthetic or semi-synthetic, so it can cause a decrease or change in consciousness, as well as reduce pain for the user.

For it should only be used by the medical or medical teams and researchers in particular are useful laboratories to report the results of his research on the wider community. But unfortunately, sometimes even abused illicit drug use by a particular person or party other than interests

Just as an example, that marijuana should be for the positive, because abused even become negative and not at all helpful. Therefore, marijuana is used for fun or euphoric moment to suck it like a hand-rolled cigarette made​​. Due to the broader irregularities committed, especially among teenagers, making marijuana included as a prohibited substance that is in a class with heroin.

Almost similar to marijuana, drug use such kind of white powder heroin, cocaine or morphine are used for fun moment. Through the side effects that cause euphoria and hallucinations, drugs like it even makes its like an unconscious person.

Or in other words, taking drugs is the same as the wearer plunged in obscurity future. Because the only happy moment obtained, but the effect is addicted to danger latin mental damage if consumed continuously would deprive the wearer.

The following are some types of narcotics, psychotropic and addictive substances or drugs that are circulating in the community at large, namely:

1. Cannabis / Maryuana / Cannabis Sativa
Plants such as these are widely used parts such as leaves, flowers, seeds and stems, initially serves to overcome the poisoning seasoning and flavoring. However, after much abused, a joint or gele is in the community known as slang meaning that marijuana, used as a compound for hand-rolled cigarettes.

The characteristics of the new people who use cannabis for the first time are:

- The eyes look red
- The body was limp and looked exhausted
- Eyeball be great
- Thoughts like dizzy
- There is an uneasy feeling, but from the outside looks happy

Meanwhile, the ill effects of consuming marijuana are:

- Comprehension reduced brain nerve
- Vision eyes feel blurry and vague
- Lack of concentration
- Supply of blood circulation to the heart is reduced
- Often seen awkwardly in the activities undertaken

As for addicts who feel comfortable in consuming marijuana, looks like:

- Sense of excessive joy (euphoria)
- Confidence is increasing rapidly
- The sense of hearing is more active and sensitive

2. Morphine

Morphine is a kind of substance which is a blend of compounds extracted from opium by certain chemical substances for pain relief for patients suffering from certain diseases. Indeed, morphine can minimize pain, reduce cravings, and stimulate coughing.

It's just the side effects caused is no less bad that according to the results of the study were suffering from sleeplessness (insomnia) and nightmares. Today, the use of morphine in the medical community has been replaced with other drugs that have similar usefulness but friendly to the wearer.

3. Heroin

Can be referred to as descendants of morphine or opioda semisintatik the chemical processes that can lead to dependence and addiction is doubled compared to morphine. Heroin is widely used by pecandunya by injecting heroin into a muscle or vein / veins in the skin, due to ignorance or a deliberate act to cause effects such as euphoria and hysteria.

4. Cocaine

White crystalline powder obtained from the extraction of the leaves of the coca (coca erythoroxylon) can create a stimulus to the nerve connections by mouth or mix it with a drink that used the medical team in the world of medicine.

However, after arriving at the general public, it is being misused cocaine into a kind of substance or stimulant drugs by injection into a vein or inhaled from the nose with a small pipe. Similar to what is done by the Indians in the Americas, by locals used to obtain cocaine stimulant effects in the fight to his enemies.

Due to the use of cocaine according to research just felt a little while, which is not until fifteen minutes which includes a sense of fun, confident, excited, and increase energy and stamina. It's just a quarter of an hour after that, the good feelings will disappear instantly and turn into prolonged fatigue. In addition users can also experience mental depression and addiction to use it again, again, and again until death.

Psychological or mental effects obtained from the use of cocaine is:

- Hypertension
- Difficulty sleeping
- The eyeball becomes small
- Appetite is lost which causes the thin
- The heart beats faster
- Feelings of uncertainty and so on.

5. Shabu-shabu

A kind of name that is synonymous with Japanese cuisine, but methamphetamine is called methamphetamine, is a white crystalline powder. Originally created in the late 20th century for people to treat hyperactivity disorder, ie a person who can not sit still.

But over time, even abused methamphetamine with aberrant usage. The world itself many celebrities, athletes and musicians whose career was destroyed by taking drugs of this type. Methamphetamine itself actually is shaped pill, but because many abused becomes the use powder using aluminum foil is burned and the smoke is inhaled through the nose using custom-made glass bottle called a bong.

Some of the consequences resulting from Shabu-shabu is:

- The heart was pounding
- Temperature rises
- Can not sleep until pale face
- Incurred high euphoria to hallucinations
- Appetite disappears
- Teeth become brittle due to calcium deficiency
- And, prolonged depression

From the explanation of the five examples of the type of drug, should be to avoid its use. In order, lest future generations later fall into darkness because it has become addicts that can damage the mental and moral.

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