#drugsprevention

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Drugs and its various aspects

I’ve chosen the data set of NESARC.

The question I’m pondering over is whether the excess drug usage effects your performance at work in some form or the other and what are the steps taken by people to overcome the abuse.

I’m interested in exploring the relation between medicine (drugs) usage particularly cannabis and drug treatment utilization. I’ve particularly chosen this topic as I’m intrigued by the increase in drug usage in the world why the youth in certain countries want to get a particular drug legalised.

Cannabis aka marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in many developed societies. Its health and psychological effects are not well understood and remain the subject of much debate. However, accumulative evidence highlights the risks of dependence and other adverse effects, particularly among people with pre-existing psychiatric disorders.As with any material that is smoked, chronic smoking of marijuana will produce bronchitis; emphysema or lung cancer have not yet been documented. 

Psycho social stress at work was measured. Based on studies only modestly supports the hypothesis of a consistent association between work stress and health risk behavior. The relatively strongest relationships have been found with regard to heavy alcohol consumption among men, overweight, and the co-manifestation of several risks. There was a significant association between job satisfaction and self-reports of counterproductive behavior only among men 30 yrs old or older. Similar results were found for drug use at work. 

Physicians are therefore in a prime position to help patients who may have drug abuse problems by recognizing and diagnosing the addiction, helping to direct patients to a program that can meet their treatment needs.There are a lot of drug rehabilitation program e.g. Twelve-step programs, SMART recovery, relapse prevention etc. and mostly the results have been promising. In a DARP research results indicated that effective results had been attained.

In conclusion cannabis is not as harmful as compared to other drugs until proven otherwise. That doesn’t mean that taking it is alright as there are too many unknown variables which still need to be considered which may affect your health in some way or another.Regarding drugs and workplace there have been no concrete evidence that job stress leads to drugs. Alcohol and cigarettes have become the new norm in workplace and getting hooked on either totally depends on the persons’ history. It’s a totally different case that the person is not interested in the job and could takes steps to sabotage his/her own job.

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Youth Q.C Rep. 25th National Youth Congress #DrugsPrevention #Day1 #Blessed (at Baguio City)