Why do people take drugs?
according to some reports, people take drugs usually when they are feeling down.
The primary explanation for drug use, historically, has always been addiction - an account which was formulated by early psychiatrists such as Levinstein and Kraepelin and which was maintained as the sole motive for all illicit drug use by enforcement units like Harry Anslinger's US Narcotics Bureau. A significant part of the appeal of addiction theories is that they short-circuit any further discussion of motive: users take drugs simply because they cannot do otherwise. But its significant drawback is that addiction as a specific clinical syndrome (metabolic craving, tolerance and dependence) only accurately describes a small percentage even of long-term drug use, and clearly cannot account for experimental or recreational use.
In recognition of this, a second explanation for drug use has now become a standard account of motive: peer pressure. Drug education programmes typically identify this as the initial reason for drug use, and tailor their message to counter it: Just Say No. But peer pressure is also a motive which sits uncomfortably with the facts. Research in the UK by Exeter University Health Education Unit, supported by similar results in the US, demonstrates that experimental teenage drug users have higher than average levels of self-esteem - i.e. that they are less likely than average to respond to peer pressure. This suggests that a misidentified motive for drug use is producing policies which, though they may succeed in frightening parents or convincing them of government concern, are unlikely to be effective in their primary goal of prevention.
"Ice," is a colorless and odorless form of crystal methamphetamine, the stimulant commonly known as speed. Like crack cocaine, Ice is smoked to produce a euphoric high. A puff of crack buoys its user for approximately 20 minutes, but the high from smoking Ice endures for 12 to 24 hours. Ice can be manufactured in clandestine speed laboratories which are prevalent throughout the United States; consequently, the availability of this drug has a greater potential for abuse than crack cocaine.
Because it is odorless, Ice can be smoked in public virtually without detection. In solid form, the drug resembles rock candy or a chip of Ice. When lighted in a glass pipe, the crystals turn to liquid and produce a potent vapor that enters the bloodstream directly through the lungs. Ice reverts to its solid state when it cools, thus becoming reusable and highly transportable.
Ice users initially suffer weight loss and insomnia because of the stimulation from the drug. It may produce highly excitable and agitated behavior with symptoms of acute psychosis. Severe paranoia, hallucinations, and impaired ability to speak coherently make its addicts temporarily indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenics.
This drug has other street names besides Ice. These include: Batu, California Glass, or Crystals.
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