Save Generation from Substance Abuse
Journal Title: Journal of Enam Meical College - Year 2016, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Globally across cultures and throughout history man has taken substances that affect mind and alter the quality of consciousness. In the last 100 years unacceptable drug taking has been an increasing area of social concern. Drug taking behavior and its consequences have come into the domain of psychiatric illness. In 1950, WHO defined drug addiction as ‘A state of periodic or chronic intoxication detrimental to the individual and to society produced by the repeated consumption of a drug (natural or synthetic); characteristics include 1) an overpowering desire or need (compulsion) to continue taking the drug and to obtain it by any means; 2) a tendency to increase the dose; 3) psychic (or psychological) and sometimes physical dependence on the effects of the drug; and 4) a detrimental effect on the individual and on society’.1 In 1964, WHO recommended that ‘dependence’ was preferred term. But in 1967, ‘drug abuse’ was introduced finally by WHO.1 ‘Misuse’ is classified as harmful use in International Classification of Diseases-102 and ‘abuse’ in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV.
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Dewan AKM Abdur Rahim
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