Drug addiction is one of the criminal acts that is being in practice for decades. Many people have lost their precious life because of drug and alcohol addiction. Drug abuse hot line is seen every where in the world. A recent research shows that drugs have gathered attention right from child to elder people. Drug abuse and child and drug abuse in teen is the most shocking hot news now days. Every one wonders how a child and teen get attracted to the drugs. Childhood and adult stages are the transitional stage and more vulnerable victim for drugs. Hare is a question to the readers how many of you are aware about drug addiction and its consequence? If most of the answer is yes then why drug addiction is increased day by day and every year?

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Addiction to gambling and drugs is the greatest concern all over the world. It has been reported that gambling and drug addiction will destroy one’s life when left untreated. Addiction can be cured by the existing medication for the treatment. Have you noticed the casino table, players will be playing with drinks in a hand. Gamblers are offered with free drinks to enjoy the game. Automatically gamblers are getting addicted to gambling, drugs and alcohol. The stimulants for both gambling and drug addiction are the same located in the brain. The pleasure pathway is triggered to become addict in both the cases.

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As you look into the world of drug addiction varieties of drugs are discovered for various euphoric feelings. Drug addiction possesses multiple side effects leading to the destruction of the user’s life and character. Federal governments with the joint action of certain anti drug programs have implemented several drug testing programs. Drug testing programs aids in the recognition of drugs in the drug abusers by variety of testing procedures. Drug testing programs includes single drug test and multiple drug tests in a single step.

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Amphetamines were discovered in the end of the 19^th century. But it was marketed for therapeutic use only by the beginning of the 20^th century when it was found that it is capable of dilating the air sacks in the lungs. It shows structural similarity to the intrinsic hormone adrenaline in our body and proves to be a boon for the people with respiratory distress especially asthma.

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A person addicted to drug often look at his/her friends and family members as aliens. Drug addiction affects the abuser surroundings and put up a shutter to the relations. Dealing and understanding of the drug addicted person by the family members seem to be very difficult. It is the situation where the friends and family members should cope up with the addicted individual. The main decisive factors that affect the family by the abuser are isolation and economic loss.

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Nowadays a lot of employees are addicted to drugs which greatly affect the company’s productivity and the rate of compensation the company pays for injurious is alarmingly more. It is accepted that the illicit drug abuse by the workers are not new. It impairs the quality, efficiency of worker. The problems created by drug addicted workers in work place are reduction in job performance, illness, non attendance, illegal activities, drug consumption during work hours and coworkers are affected.

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One of the most popular psychotropic drugs is MDMA or 3, 4 methylene- dioxymethamphetamine. It produces excitation in such a pleasurable way that it is very popular by the name ecstasy. It is basically a stimulant with hallucinogenic properties. A dose of 75 to 100 mg produces symptoms within half to one hour. In addition to the general symptoms of stimulants, it also produces spasm of the muscles of mastication referred to as trismus and the grinding of teeth referred to as bruxism.

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Methamphetamines are derivatives of amphetamines which has similar mechanism of action and comparable physiological, pharmacological and pharmacodynamic properties. They are therapeutically effective as anti depressants. It acts on the neuronal junctions and increase the concentration of the neurotransmitters mainly dopamine at the synapses.

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Drug addiction greatly affects the central nervous system. Treating the drug addiction is reasonably difficult because it affects the frontal cortex of the brain by the negative mechanism which acts as the site for decision making and behavior. Cognition and behavior of a person is controlled by the frontal cortex of the brain. It is found that the frontal cortex is weaker due to drug addiction whereas the normal individual brain was healthy. Drugs take over the activity of brain and alter them and they do not substitute the occupation of the brain.

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Opium is the naturally occurring sedative which is extracted from the opium poppy. The tremendous role of this drug is to control the pain. Opium is prescribed to treat fevers, coughs and diarrhea. Moreover it is also used to treat patient’s pain in wide awake state itself. Opium addiction is the unmanageable longing to abuse on a habitual basis. Some people become addicted to the opium even their condition has resolved. They try to abuse illegally for the euphoric state. As the person becomes habitual their body develop tolerance to the drug thereby they require increased amount of the drug to compensate the recreational feeling.

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