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• High blood pressure leading to heart attack or stroke
• Loss of social perstige
• Economic loss
iii. Preventions of alcohol use
• Avoid bad companions
• Say ‘No’ to drinking alcohol
• Change the tradition of using alcohol
• Educate the people related to the effects of drinking alcohol
• Ban the advertisement of alcoholic products
• Declare the public places “Alcohol free zones”
• Manage rehabilitation services to the drunkards to quit alcohol
• Engage in recreational activities to utilize the leisure time properly

Drugs
Any chemical substance when taken into the body
changes the functions of organs and systems is known
as drug. Some drugs alter the functions positively and
some negatively. According to WHO, drug is defined
as “any chemical entity or mixture of entities, other
that those required for the maintenance of normal
health, the administration of which alters the biological Fig: 34
function and possible structures”.

People take drugs for various purposes. Some use it in the name of culture, some for
worshipping gods and some for fashion. When unspecified drugs are taken excessively,
they harm the user, such an action is known as Drug abuse.
But some people have the habit of taking drugs frequently. When drugs are taken
periodically and chronically, it is called drug addiction. These days, drug addiction has
become a world wide problem. The most common drugs used by the people are opium,
morphine, heroine cocaine, cannabis (hashish or marijuana), etc.

Fig: 35
Opium Morphine Cocaine Cannabis

a. Causes of Drug Addiction
• Lack of knowledge about the impacts of drugs.
• Peer pressure
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