HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DRUG USAGE IN OUR LIFESTYLE

 

HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DRUG USAGE IN OUR LIFESTYLE

Reasons To Say No To Drugs

There are so many other activities such as investing in a career , bonding with family and your parents which are more interesting and fulfilling than abusing drugs.

Realize that abusing drugs and alcohol may not be fulfilling in the long run and sometimes leads to devastating events in people’s lives including prison, homelessness, serious medical problems and even death.

Examine all fulfilling activities broadly. Think about the compliments received from utilizing your skills, the rewards of pursuing an interesting career or how much love you receive from your self-esteem.

One Should Compare the results of his interests to the results (long-term and short) of abusing drugs and alcohol.

Realize that pursuing interests is more fun, cheaper (especially physically), healthier and easier than abusing drugs or alcohol.

Learn to Say no when friends, peers, or even strangers offer drugs or alcohol to you.

Try to associate with people who do not use alcohol and drugs.

Have a good friend who will provide you positive feedback about any situation where you are tempted to experiment

Remember that the future is full of hope and promise and that abusing drugs and alcohol might rob you of those beautiful promises.

Look at the list of successful people who have been destroyed even killed by drugs and alcohol.

How To Say No To Drugs

Be aware of your talents, skills and accomplishments so you can think of them when you feel worthless.

Realize that you can create your own “buzz” or happy feelings by caring about and building, your future.

Past accomplishments are key. If you succeeded before you can do it again.

Think about what you enjoy doing the most.

You can never look back at a substance-abusing episode with pride, but you can when recalling how you utilized your skills.

Seek medical and professional advice when stopping all substances as withdrawing from some drugs can cause health concerns.

What Government Surveys Say

A recent survey by Govt of India Health and Family Welfare Ministry shows that among the boys aged between 15-19, 28.6 per cent reported tobacco use and 15 per cent were addicted to alcohol. 5.5 per cent girls under the same age group used tobacco while 4 per cent were addicted to alcohol. Isn’t it shocking? Well, what is even more shocking is that when we as a society ostracize kids instead of helping and reforming them. We need to understand that any kind of addiction usually does not happen overnight. Rather, people who become addicted to any substance such as tobacco, alcohol, cocaine etc. are gradually introduced and desensitized to them over a period of time. They may initially enjoy the use of drugs in a recreational way, but it soon turns into a hard habit which takes them to a dangerous route. As their consumption of drugs rises, they become physically dependent on it to an extent that its absence makes them sick. Most of the drugs are illegal, so in order to have them continually, people get involved in criminal activities. Ultimately, they die a painful death with nobody besides them, remaining sad all along.

According to psychologists, most of the drug addicts are quite immature in nature and suffer from insecure personality. They lack confidence due to various psychogenic problems, especially those from their immediate family. Another surprising fact about such people is that most of them are aware that substance abuse would bring them intellectual impairment and substantive, cognitive and memory disturbances resulting in deterioration of their social and family relations. But unfortunately, their habit and dependency on these substances does not let them easily give up on its use.

A body of research proves meditation as an effective addiction recovery technique. Researchers who examined incarcerated substance abusers found that those who were taught how to meditate had lower levels of relapse and more positive outcomes after release than those who received only conventional recovery treatments. Hence, it would not be difficult to recognize the value of meditation for elimination of drug habits. It will also be beneficial to introduce this theory and practice as a subject in education so that the youth and children can be saved from dependence on drugs at a primitive level.

Many people may pose a question: why meditation? Well, the answer is that it has been proved that it rewires critical pathways in the brain thereby increasing self-awareness in a person which allows him/her to focus on things that demand their attention. Remember, calming the mind for a few minutes may provide the distance needed to make a reasonable and healthy decision about whether to light a cigarette or find a meditation center. So, all the young people, make the right choice of a healthy future by saying no to drugs and yes to meditation.

BY:MANSI BANERJEE