Question

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: Assignment

The use of alcohol tobacco and other drugs continue to take a toll on the economy, life expectancy and health care delivery system of the United States.

1. What are the 3 most common reasons individuals start using drugs?
2. Explain how “people, places and things” are related to continued drug use and explain what needs to be done regarding people, places, and things to start changing drug behavior.
3. Explain what happens in the brain when a person takes a drug. Include the terms neurotransmitters, synapse, axon, and dendrite in your answer.
4. Explain the science of how the brain can become addicted to a drug (chemical substance).

Answer 1

The use of alcohol, drugs and other substances are increasing day by day. The most 3 common reasons for individuals start using drug are

* Financial incentives

* Psychological instability like loneliness, depression, anger

* Cultural attitudes

The phrase 'people, place and things' refers to triggers. Triggers are problematic cues which obsess the person to become addicted and being a regular user of drugs and substances.

The people in the life triggers doesn't mean that the people who are presented at the time of usage, but also people who are responsible for your emotional stability.

Depending on your habits, type of substances used has role in place triggers which include bars or clubs, alleys or abandoned buildings, childhood home.

As the largest category, thing triggers include everything else that creates cravings. Things can be drug paraphernalia, a movie, an album, a certain day of the week, or a food.

Eventhough all these triggers has both negative and positive, it's up to the person whether to take the best or not. Accept the positive triggers, especially should start such kind of awareness training and demonstration from school level.

NEUROTRANSMISSION

Drugs has very important role to alter the way people think, feel or behave by disrupting neurotransmission, the process of communication in between neurons in the brain.

Normally, when drugs are not present, the cycle of release, breakup, and neuron re-entry maintains the amount of neurotransmitter in the synapse, and hence neurotransmission, within certain limits. In most cases, when an addictive drug enters the brain, it causes neurotransmission to increase or decrease dramatically beyond these limits.

A long-term drug usage leads to changes in the neural structure and thus permanent neurotransmission abnormalities.