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Lesson Drug Abuse
4.3

FACTS Drugs and narcotics badly affect our brain
to Understand and also deteriorate our whole body.

Any chemical substance that harms or damages our mind body organs or whole body
if taken without the prescription of doctors or over dose is a drug. Drug simply is
medicine which is given to the patient to cure any disease then a patient gets well.
The illegal intake of any chemical or medicine in high dose without the doctor's
prescription or someone is habituated to take any medicine illegally is called drug
abuse. Some of the harmful drugs are Marajuna, Hashish, Cocaine, Heroin, Brown
Sugar, etc.

Case Study

Meera is a class 9 student with the influence of bad friends, started
taking drugs. Sahil, feeling detached from family and kin, was
stressed and worried. Sahil's broken home, quarrelsome family and
loneliness encouraged him to accompany Meera. Shikha belongs
to a well to do family and has chosen the wrong role model. To be
modern and most civilized, Laxmi started imitating her role model's
bad practices and became a drug addict. Tashi and Sonam are the
only children of their parents and they enjoyed excessive freedom
and finally got addicted. They have stolen and sold valuable goods at
cheap price to obtain money to buy drugs. All of them have suffered
from various problems. When their parents realized what was
happening and then it was too late. Later they all were taken to the
rehabilitation centre. Health worker associated with NARCONON
came and help them to get rid of drug addiction.

Read the above case study carefully and answer the following
questions.

1. Mention the problems related to the students.
2. Who helped them to get rid of their problems?
3. What suggestions do you want to give to the people who are suffering
from such problems?

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