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The Allure of Drugs

The Allure of Drugs. “Why do people use drugs?. Reasons for beginning to use drugs Altered Conscious Experience Have a good time, feel good, relax, decrease boredom, relieve physical and emotional pain, seek greater awareness Change in thinking, feeling, perceiving, & behaving

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The Allure of Drugs

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  1. The Allure of Drugs

  2. “Why do people use drugs? • Reasons for beginning to use drugs • Altered Conscious Experience • Have a good time, feel good, relax, decrease boredom, relieve physical and emotional pain, seek greater awareness • Change in thinking, feeling, perceiving, & behaving • Increase awareness • Decrease awareness • A drug for every ailment

  3. Definitions • Risk factors • Individual or environmental factors that increase a person’s risk of drug use • Vulnerability • Idea that some people are differentially at risk • Resistance factors (Counter measures) • Lowers a person’s risk • Religion, academic success, good relationship with parents, contentment

  4. Demographic Age/gender Family structure Income Education Employment Sociocultural – TV, movies Adolescence Curiosity Personality/Coping Changes & Conflict in Society Heredity Predisposing Factors

  5. Enabling Factors • Availability • Accessibility • Social & Institutional Deficiencies • Laws are ineffective • Personal & Professional Deficiencies • Don’t have skills to cope with pressures & insecurity • Peculiar Effects of Drugs • Psychoactive effects • Enablers • People who unknowingly support drug problem

  6. Reinforcing Factors • Pleasure • Positive reinforcement – Table 2.2 p. 33 • To avoid bad sensations • Negative reinforcement – Fig.2.2 p. 34 • Functional needs • Improve performance • Social / Peer Group • Advertising / Media

  7. Public Health Model Theories • Agent-related etiology • Drugs cause dependence or addiction • Host-related etiology • Factors within the person cause drug use • Environment-related etiology • External factors lead to drug use • Multi-factorial – two or more of the above

  8. Influence of Media • Advertisements • Celebrities • Sports • Movies

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