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Psychoactive Drugs; Depressants, Stimulants And Hallucinogens

There are certain drugs that alter moods, emotions, and perceptions, these drugs are called as the Psychoactive Drugs. Psychoactive drugs fall into three major categories; the Depressants, Stimulants and Hallucinogens.

Depressants have the capability to reduce the activity of the central nervous system. It slows down reactions and reduces the strength of response. It can also cause drowsiness; sleep or it can even cause death depending on the dosage taken. Drugs such as barbiturates, narcotics, minor tranquilizers and alcohol fall in this category. (ecmd)

There are serious social problems involving depressant drugs. These are the use of Alcohol and Heroin. The used of alcohol in beverages are widespread in our society. Many people are addicted to the point where these people suffer from actual physical reactions, sweating or tremors when deprived from using these drugs. Heroin is also a serious problem which causes misery, crime, and deaths from overdoses. This drug is used to relieve pain; it produces feeling of well-being and freedom from worry, exhilaration, and extreme physical pleasures.

Alcohol addiction can be cured by psychotherapy and some form of aversive conditioning. Heroin on the other hand can be cured through successful treatment that includes both physical and psychological approaches. Another method of treating heroin addiction is by maintaining the addiction to heroin or by substituting drugs like methadone. This drug cannot cure the addiction but it can eliminate the need to illegally obtain the drugs as well as it allows a gradual controlled reduction in dosage. Stimulants have opposite effect to those of the depressants. These drugs increase the activity of the Central Nervous Systems. It also speeds up reactions; produce a feeling of light headedness, alertness and euphoria. Drugs such as caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines and cocaine belong to this category.

Stimulant drugs have the capability to improve performance on many tasks as well as in keeping someone awake in a period of time. Continued use in these drugs may lead to a cycle of arousal. It will be then followed by depressions in the time that the effect of the drugs wears off. There are cases that individuals who take these drugs will develop increase dependence on the drugs making larger and larger dosage or intake as necessary.

Hallucinogens have the capability to produce perpetual and temporal distortions. The tropical morning glory plant, the psilocybin mushroom and cannabis hemp, all contain substances of hallucinogens; others have been produced synthetically. These drugs affect the perception and thinking by producing distortions. The distortion that is produce might be pleasurable or it may be upsetting and frightening. Hallucinogens cause negative psychological effects and anti-social behavior. Users of these drugs also face legal consequences.

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The History Channel : The World Of Illegal Drugs , The Physical Effects On The Human Body , Social And Legislative Impacts Of Marijuana , Methamphetamine , Opium , Heroin , Cocaine , Morphine , LSD, Ecstasy , And The Raves

Since the mid-19th Century, America has waged a “war on drugs.” Discover the substances at the center of this ongoing struggle. Four programs on 2 DVDs examine the history, effect and status of specific illegal drugs. Learn the telling history behind the criminalization of certain substances. Hear the opinions of advocates from both sides of the debate.

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Heroin: Its History, Pharmacology, and Treatment (The Library of Addictive Drugs)

‘A fully developed history, psychology, physiology, and pharmacology of heroin addiction.’ David E. Smith, M.D., Founder, President, and Medical Director, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc., and Richard B. Seymour, M.A., Managing Editor, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

‘Recommended reading for both the general public and addiction treatment professionals, providing a wealth of valuable information in understanding heroin addiction and treatment.’ Mark Parrino, M.P.A., President, American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence

This updated and expanded second edition provides new research into heroin’s effects on the brain, the changing attitudes and policies about methadone and medications, and the different approaches to treating heroin addicts. Included are studies of violence along the U.S.-Mexican borderwhichhas put heroin trafficking in the spotlightas well as a focus on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made opium a valuable commodity and a major source of funds for terrorists. Animated with vivid personal stories and vignettes, Heroin puts a human face on the long and complex story behind this notorious drug.

Written for professionals and serious lay readers by nationally recognized experts, the books in The Library of Addictive Drugs series feature in-depth, comprehensive, and up-to-date information on the most commonly abused mood-altering substances.

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Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-century Britain (Drugs and Alcohol Contested Histories)

Heroin, often viewed as the hardest drug , looms large in the popular consciousness. Heroin addiction in Britain first began to cause concern during the 1920s, yet while one group of doctors regarded the addiction as a disease which required treatment, other physicians viewed it as a vice which demanded strict control. The medical community and the government have debated both the definition of addiction medical condition, moral failing or social problem and the method of dealing with addiction medical treatment vs. legal controls.

In Heroin, Alex Mold examines the interaction of the different approaches to heroin addiction and argues that the treatment of the addiction as a disease and the control of heroin as a social problem could, in practice, rarely be separated. Treatment became a way of controlling the addiction and the addicts themselves, but debates about the nature of addiction treatment and the methods used resulted in politicisation of the topic. During the late 1960s Drug Dependence Units (DDUs) were established as a means to combine both medical treatment and social control. The British System essentially treated addiction as a disease and offered maintenance the administering of heroin or an opioid substitute on a long-term basis as treatment. Maintenance proved to be a source of tension between psychiatrists specialising in addiction treatment and private and general practitioners who operated outside the DDUs. This conflict manifested itself in heated disputes on the pages of medical journals, in government committees and in disciplinary hearings before the General Medical Council.

The same debates, conflicts and tensions which have beset drug addiction treatment since the beginning of the 20th century persist today. Despite international laws and codes concerning addiction and treatment, there is much that is peculiar and significant about the British case. Drawing on government papers, private archival collections, medical journals, oral history sources and official reports, Mold presents the first detailed historical analysis on the subject. Historians, sociologists, addiction specialists and contemporary policy-makers can look to this groundbreaking study to learn from the past and shape the future response to heroin addiction.

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There are many ways to die from legal psychiatric drugs: through overdose, through illness occasioned by the devastating effects of the drug upon the body’s organs, through suicide and loss of impulse control (many psychiatric medications list such among their many adverse reactions) or simply through accidents that result from loss of judgment and reaction time on the part of persons driving vehicles or handling machinery whilst “high” on such medications. The dangers of driving, handling machinery or flying an aircraft, for example, while under the influence of even small amounts of one particular drug ? alcohol ? are well known. The same can probably be said for most street drugs: Nobody would want to be the passenger in a car or aircraft where the driver or pilot is high on marijuana and no airline ? I hope ? would employ a pilot found to have cocaine in his system. Why? For the obvious reason that these drugs impair judgment and reaction time and distort perception. But what about psychiatric medication? So far as I know, it is not illegal for someone to drive a motor vehicle while off his or her face on any one of a vast slew of mind altering psychiatric medications, yet if anyone cared to test these I guarantee they will find they have a debilitating effect on the user very much in the same league as alcohol, heroin, LSD or Extacy. Come to think of it, street drugs such as Extacy and LSD (popularized forty years ago by a psychiatrist ? the infamous Timothy Leary) were originally psychiatric drugs before becoming street drugs and many psychiatric drugs such as Temazepam are used by addicts! The incidence of road traffic accidents resulting from alcohol intoxication is well documented. But nobody is studying or keeping statistics on injury and death resulting from intoxication by psychotropic medication. Why? Do the pharmaceutical giants have more influence over government by any chance than the breweries and Columbian cartels? In my view a great deal more death and injury could be avoided if the rules applying to alcohol and street drugs were extended to psychiatric drugs. This would at least reduce the capacity of the psychiatric industry to kill and maim the general public ? not enough but a step, at least, in the right direction

• Title: Subject: Narcotics
• Year: 1951
• Run Time: 21 Minutes
• Audio/Visual: Sound, Color

Product DescriptionFamous filmmakers Denis and Terry Sanders made this dark and powerful educational film, which was used as a no-nonsense training tool for new police recruits in Los Angeles. Dry and hard hitting, the film provides a harrowing look at illegal drug use, particularly heroin use in 1950′s Los Angeles. It depicts in some detail drug use and the social problems it creates, as well as the effects of heroin and heroin abuse. Dual narrators ask and then answer questions about how to control and deal with urban drug use and substance abuse prevention for police officers training. Staged scenes of heroin junkies shooting up, going through withdrawal, and being arrested are also shown. Shot partially in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles before redevelopment, this film has great footage of that now lost area and serves as a small piece of the history of Los Angeles. This is one of those chilling police training videos that still shocks today.

1950′s Los Angeles Police Recruits Training Video for Narcotics & Illegal Drugs

The abuse of drugs has reached such a limit, that people often overlook the problems of alcohol addiction. Alcohol is generally used as a beverage nowadays; most people take alcohol daily; it cannot be considered as a harmful one. The boozing effect that alcohol causes attracts people towards it. Taking alcohol is safe till it is done as a recreational purpose or used as a beverage. But when anyone starts taking huge amount of alcohol daily to suppress any kind of pain or depression, the problem occurs. Taking too much alcohol everyday for suppressing pain or depression leads to addiction; people find that they are feeling better when they take alcohol. The effects of alcohol addiction cannot be noticed easily like the effects of drug addiction; but if neglected it can cause death. Alcohol addiction recovery is also much easier and faster than that of drugs; treatment of few months can easily help a person get rid of the alcohol addiction.

Alcohol addiction can lead to several problems in a person’s life as it has done for a long time. It can break relationships, cause problems in a person’s job site, social life, personal life, health and several more. Since alcohol has been accepted by our society, people do not care much when anyone takes too much alcohol. But when the severe effects of alcohol addiction show up, people get conscious and run for the alcohol treatment centers. When a person gets deeply addicted to alcohol because of mental or physical pain, it becomes very hard to make that person leave the addiction. Only proper treatment in an alcohol treatment center can help that person out. The withdrawal effects of alcohol addiction are much severe than that of drug addiction; it can easily cause heart failure and stroke if not taken proper care.

The medical staffs of the well known alcohol rehab centers take immense care of the patients when the withdrawal symptoms of alcohol show up. They interact with the patients very intimately when the effects show up. These experienced medical staffs provide immense mental support to the patients so that they can fight against the pain and overcome it. Besides, the alcohol addiction causes lot of physical problems like liver failure, heart blockage, higher blood pressure etc. So, when a alcohol addicted person is admitted in a rehab center, lot of physical exercises are prescribed so that they can get rid of these physical problems. The alcohol addicted people get a new way of life in the rehab centers. People, who lost all hope of their life, get to live a new life in the rehabs. The environment of the world class rehabs are extremely helpful for the patients who get admitted in the rehab centers, it helps them to stay calm during the treatment.

Thousands of alcohol rehab centers have grown up all over the world; and most of them are efficient in curing the alcohol addicted patients. If you know any person who is trying to get rid of the addiction, get him admitted in a rehab center. It is the only hope that he has got to return back to the normal life.

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