There are generally 5 risk factors that play an important role in the formation of drug addiction:

Troubled relationships – staying out late, negative examples from parents. Alienation – from family, from school, from people with the same age. Failure – the child does not see the right path to take. Not able to live up to – the expectations of family, society, and religion. To be lonesome – lack of emotional attachment to certain people.

TERMINOLOGIES

DRUG: a material (produced in either a naturally or a synthetically), which can change the function of organisms of the person who takes the drug.

NARCOTIC DRUG: a drug that people take to affect the function of their nervous system.

PSZICHOTROP MATERIAL: this term is being used for materials produced synthetically, and it has an important role in terms of legal issues.

DEPENDENCY: the stage where the person cannot live without narcotic drug, his body requires non-stop drug consumption.
There are two kinds of dependency:
Psychical: emotional needs,
Physical: in this case the lack of drug causes physical pain.

DETOXICATION: ending of the consumption of drugs: this 8-15 days period is necessary for a person so his physical addiction to drugs will disappear.

OVERDOSE: it has respiratory and cardiac symptoms, blackout, and death that can happen in a very short time.

NARCOTIC STAGE: reaching the poisoned stage after the non-stop take-in of one or more kind of drugs.

About the usage of drugs and recognizing their symptoms.

THE DISCO DRUGS
(the derivatives of amphetamine and LSD)

They are the most popular drugs in nightclubs and at parties. One can usually get them for cheap. ECSTASY, SPEED They wind you up and make you feel wonderful. The affects of the derivatives of amphetamine can show up in 10-30 minutes and last for 3-4 hours. Physical symptoms: > Body temperature can go up to 40 Celsius. > Dryness of mouth. One must drink 4-5 liters of fluid, otherwise; the person can dehydrate. > The danger is that the person only feels 1/10 of the true thirst. > Intensive heart rate, frequent respiration, and increase of blood pressure > Wide pupils, strong sweating, headache, dizziness, and trembling

Psychological symptoms:
> Euphoria
> Tiredness and hunger disappears
> The performance of brain and body improves
> More dosage leads to aggression and hallucination

ITS DANGERS !!!!!! It must not be taken with alcohol as it can cause heart problems and death. Neither the producer nor the merchant wants it to be a “clean material”. Because of this the Ecstasy can contain such materials that the body cannot process therefore, it will be accumulated (for instance the liver will be damaged forever) and it becomes easy for someone to depend on it.

LSD The LSD is the most pronounced type of hallucinogenic. Originally it was made out of ergot, but nowadays it is made synthetically. Usually people take it through their mouth, mostly by licking stamps. (Not to be mistaken with postal stamps!) Once it is in the mouth, it is easily absorbed through the mucous membrane. It cannot penetrate through the skin. It can affect someone in 30-45 minutes and can last for 8-12 hours. Physical symptoms: frequent heart beat, increase of blood pressure, sweating, salivation, wide pupils, dizziness, trembling, and vomiting. Psychological symptoms: visual, aural, and tactile hallucination, chimera, desire to fly, and disturbance in time and space ITS DANGERS! Aggressive behaviors towards others. Voluntary mutilation Suicide

What shall we do in case of life-threatening situations ?

If the worst situation occurs and you find your child in an unconscious stage, it is important that you know what to do.

You can save your child’s life by:

• making sure that the breathing is OK,
  
• cleaning out the mouth from materials blocking the respiratory tracts,
  
• turning the person onto his right-side therefore, avoiding choking,
  
• calling the ambulance,
  
• not leaving the person alone ,
  
• collecting the pills, or other drugs, and giving them to the paramedics!!!