Brown Drug abuse is a major issue in many countries. Billions of dollars are spent worldwide preventing drug use, treating addicts, and fighting drug-related crime. Even though drugs can threaten societies, their effects can also be tackled successfully. The dangers of drugs can be fought. Education on drugs and their effects can be taught to kids at home. A second approach is to increase police manpower and powers to stop dealers and to enforce the law. Targeting users and guiding them to quit or seek help with their problems would help with decreasing the abuse of the substance. These are concrete steps that can be taken to weaken the hold of drugs on society.
Billions of dollars are spent on preventing drug use, like rehab clinics, school programs, and drug prevention meetings like AAA. All these programs focus on showing people the effects and getting them to help without judgment so people can get their life straight. In rehab, they have a therapist that will help you get through the problems that caused people to start drugs, but in rehab, people are still using drugs before they come, so they give them medications to stop the withdrawal symptoms. To go to rehab, people must admit they have a problem and want help; some people go to rehab because they are forced, or the court makes them. The school programs go around to different schools to talk to adolescents about drugs and the risk of using drugs and inform them on the effects and how to avoid drugs. The school programs to stop drug abuse has a great impact for example, "Past-year inhalant use by younger teens dropped significantly between 2007 and 2012, from 8. 3% of 8th graders and 6. 6% of 10th graders to 6. 2% and 4. 1%, respectively" (Drug abuse sourcebook 2014).
Treatment of drug addicts is very difficult, people come into treatment centers dependent on a drug, and when coming into the treatment center, they can no longer use drugs, so they go through withdrawal. Treatment on addicts can be brutal in deciding the right treatment plan for the addict, no treatment is the same for every user, and effective treatments attend to multiple needs of addicts. Medication plays a vital role in the treatment process they help establish normal brain function, relapse, and diminish craving of the drugs; medications can also help with withdrawal symptoms. Behavioral treatments help patients modify people's attitudes and behavior related to drug abuse; this treatment can also help the effectiveness of the medication...
