2.2 Influence of drug addiction and toxic substance abuse on life activity of a person

Social and economic difficulties in the country resulted both recession of vital potential and increasing of negative and extremely dangerous phenomena in society. One of such phenomena is drug addiction expanding. Drug addict is a person, who looks for a way to escape from life difficulties. Frequently young people and children become drug addicts.

The only general parameter is that the reason of drug addiction is to be searched in social development. The law-enforcement struggle with drugs, in particular with their illegal trade. The mental dependence on drugs means that only with the help of them it is possible to gain emotional stability and keep the nerves under control. While using drugs a physical dependence appears; it is much worse, because the mentioned mental attraction to drugs is accompanied by physical sufferings. Drug addicts, as the matter of fact, unable to have a regular work commit crimes for living and satisfy growing need for drugs.

The most widespread drugs, which cause physical and mental dependence, are of opium type (opium, morphine, heroin, codeine), and also partly barbiturate, tranquilizers and vekaminos. Drug addict rehabilitation is possible only in conditions of special in-patient treatment. However, even after a long-term treatment relapse is possible. If a drug addict can't quit this «hell», nothing can help his dying.

Recently in many countries including Ukraine toxic substance abuse has spread (toxin means poison). Toxic substance abuse attracts youth, mainly scholars of higher classes and students of technical training colleges. Intoxication is achieved spraying light poisonous substances, which are absorbed by lungs and penetrate fast in brain while inhalation. Aerosol, as well as alcohol, detains supplying of blood with oxygen, brain and central nervous system can't manage without. Multiple aerosol intoxication can cause death. People drop out of the balconies, get under the transport, and choke under spray affecting.

Treatment of drug addict is very hard and outcomes are not always successful. The term of treatment depends on time one used a drug. The longer it is, the more complicated and prolonged process of treatment is. For example, to eliminate narcotic influence of a drug addict who had used drugs for one year takes 3-4 months of intensive in-patient treatment.

Social danger and harmfulness of drug addiction:

• drug addicts are bad workers, their work capacity, physical and mental activity is strongly reduced, they always keep thinking of drug - how to get it;

• drug addiction brings significant material and moral losses, is the reason of industrial, transport and private accidents, injuries, diseases and various criminal offences;

• drug addicts make insufferable condition for their families which turn out to be out of livelihood, commit crimes as to their children, because poor health of parents passes to the children;

• drug addicts degrade physically and morally becoming a burden for the society, involving in the dirty business new people, first of all young, and then prematurely die;

• using drugs is immoral. The essence of drug addiction consists in the ruining of healthy estimation of reality, moral standards which were created during education, goals and sense of life;

• drug illness in all its kinds is a social dangerous mental disease that threatens future of the nation, prosperity and health of the population of the whole country. This determines universal, global significance of the problem.