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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

Phenobarbital is a type of barbiturate that was used as sedatives, anti anxiety medicines, and hypnotics. Now it has been widely replaced by newer drugs. But Phenobarbital is still abused worldwide. Usually the victims are men or women who have started this for beating stress and anxiety but in the long run have started using it more and more often and finally ending up in addiction. (more…)

One of the most commonly used samples for drug testing is the urine. The reason why urine is preferred over other samples is that it is the main excretory pathway for all the drugs. Moreover the method of collecting urine is also non invasive and takes only few minutes. The drugs can also be detected in urine long after the drug has left the blood. In spite of these positive aspects, urine testing has its negative aspects too. First of all, you need to provide the candidate with a restroom with adequate privacy or else the entire process of urine collection would become embarrassing. (more…)

Amphetamines are psychotropic drugs that act on the neuronal junctions increasing the levels of dopamine and thereby produce excitement. It can be taken orally either in the form of smoke or sniffed. On repeated usage of amphetamines, tolerance develops and it leads to the tendency of increasing the dose. (more…)