Chapter 7 &8
Chapter 7
and 8 were very informative and I believe I learned quite a few things. I learned
about drugs I didn’t even know existed, like GHB and Katamine (club drugs). Drug
use is very dangerous weather ingested, injected or inhaled, no matter what way
you take a drug it’s dangerous. It is important to know what you’re putting in
your body and know what kind of interactions it can have, especially when taken
with other medications and or alcohol, there is also always side effects, so to
watch for them is also important. Many people abuse prescription drugs. It’s a
very common thing these days, yet very bad, people don’t understand what
they’re doing to themselves. Abusing drugs can cause not only bad health
problems and or death but drugs are very addicting. For someone addicted to
drugs life can just get very hard, they literally cannot function without them
and when trying to get off these kinds of drugs with draw alone is horrible and
dangerous. People need to really think before taking medications or illegal
drugs before they ruin their lives. Drugs have many effects on the body short
term and long term and once you damage your organs or brain you can’t take back
what you did (chapter 7).
I
learned about alcohol and tobacco and the effects, ingredients in cigarettes
and the types of tobacco as well as long term and short term effects that can ultimately
ruin your life. I learned about binge drinking along with how college student increasingly
binge drink by drink a lot of alcohol in a short amount of time and I learned
of the many treatments for alcoholics. There are 5 steps to quitting a tobacco habit
and using the letters START can be the beginning of the process (chapter 8).
In
discussion I learned about the reasons alcohol and tobacco will probably never
be band, due to the state and federal taxes. The amount of money made on these
is more important than people’s health. I learned of the many chemicals in
tobacco/cigarettes and the effects each chemical can have on a person. Below are
two sites I found useful.
I have learned a few words in these chapters
including psychoactive, ethanol, carcinogenic and dopamine
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