Power point effects of drug abuse
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The document discusses the severe effects of drug abuse on individuals and their families, emphasizing its impact on health, including the brain and immune system, and the resulting behavioral changes in the workplace. It highlights cues for identifying drug abuse and the consequences on job performance, relationships, and family structures. The conclusion addresses psychological effects such as learned helplessness, depression, anxiety, and emotional constriction related to substance abuse.
Power point effects of drug abuse
- 1. EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE Deion Williams Private Security Coastal Pines Technical College April 21,2015
- 2. INTRODUCTION Drug abuse hurts the people who take drugs AND the people around them, including families, kids, and babies who aren't yet born. Drug abuse hurts the body and the brain, sometimes forever.
- 3. CUES TO DRUG ABUSE • The person appears to be intoxicated, but the smell of alcohol is absent. • The person is in a state of relentless, drowsiness, or exultation • The pupils of the person’s eyes are dilated or are not affected by changes in lighting. • The person walks rapidly
- 4. CUES TO DRUG ABUSE Heroin • Action- Sedative, euphoriant, analgesic • Characteristics of intoxication- Drowsiness, “nodding,” euphoria (happy giddiness) Cocaine • Action- Stimulant • Characteristics of intoxication- ↑BP, ↑HR, ↑temp,↑energy,↑paranoia,↓f atigue, ↓appetite, move bowels/urinate
- 5. INJURIES • Weaken the immune system, increasing susceptibility to infections. • Cause cardiovascular conditions ranging from abnormal heart rate to heart attacks. Injected drugs can also lead to collapsed veins and infections of the blood vessels and heart valves. • Cause seizures, stroke and widespread brain damage that can impact all aspects of daily life by causing problems with memory, attention and decision-making, including sustained mental confusion and permanent brain damage.
- 6. Effects On The Brain • All drugs of abuse - nicotine, cocaine, marijuana, and others - effect the brain's "reward" circuit, which is part of the limbic system. • Drugs hijack this "reward" system, causing unusually large amounts of dopamine to flood the system. • This flood of dopamine is what causes the "high" or euphoria associated with drug abuse.
- 7. DRUGS AND THE WORKPLACE Job Performance • Inconsistent work quality • Poor concentration and lack of focus • Lowered productivity or erratic work patterns • Increased absenteeism or on the job “presenteeism” • Unexplained disappearances from the jobsite • Carelessness, mistakes or errors in judgment Workplace Behavior • Frequent financial problems • Avoidance of friends and colleagues • Blaming others for own problems and shortcomings • Complaints about problems at home • Deterioration in personal appearance or personal hygiene • Complaints, excuses and time off for vaguely defined illnesses or family problems
- 8. DRUGS AND THE WORKPLACE • after-effects of substance use (hangover, withdrawal) affecting job performance • absenteeism, illness, and/or reduced productivity • preoccupation with obtaining and using substances while at work, interfering with attention and concentration • illegal activities at work including selling illicit drugs to other employees, • psychological or stress-related effects due to substance abuse by a family member, friend or co- worker that affects another person's job performance.
- 9. Effects of Substance Abuse on Families • Drug and alcohol abuse not only affects you, but also your family. Addictions often create interpersonal problems for all family members. 1. Jealousy: You can grow jealous of your friends, your partner, other family members and other people in your life. Your partner may also be jealous and resentful of you. 2. Conflict with Partner: You may have arguments, get/give the "silent treatment" or grow apart by putting your addiction first. 3. Conflict with Children: You may argue with your children and they may disregard your authority or be afraid of you.
- 10. FAMILY STRUCTURES • He/she live alone or with a partner: Both of you need help. If one of you has an addiction and the other doesn't, you'll suffer from issues of co-dependence. • He/she live with a spouse or partner and young children: Parents' problems effect children. Often, one parent has an addiction and the other protects the children or assumes more parental responsibilities. If both parents have addictions, the effect on children is worse. Your addiction is likely to pass down to your children. • The abuser has a step-family: Substance abuse impedes your step-family's integration and stability. • Abuser is older and have grown children: Family resources are needed to treat an older adult's substance abuse. Elder maltreatment may become an issue.
- 11. CONCLUSION 1. Learned Helplessness: A person loses the feeling that they can affect or change what’s happening to them. They give up and become “helpless” which can also affect other areas of life. 2. Depression: Unexpressed and unfelt emotion can lead to flat internal world – or an agitated/anxious defense against feeling internal pain. Or anger, rage and sadness that remain unfelt or unexpected in a way that leads to no resolution and becomes turned inward within the self 3. Anxiety: Free floating anxiety, worries and anxieties that have no where particular to pin themselves and may look for a place to project themselves or phobias, sleep disturbances, hyper- vigilance etc. 4. Emotional Constriction: Numbness and shutdown as a defense against overwhelming pain; restricted range of affect or lack of authentic expression of emotion.
- 12. REFERENCES • http://www.easyread.drugabuse.gov/drug-abuse-effects.php • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64114/ • https://ncadd.org/learn-about-drugs/workplace • http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/psychosocial/substance.html
Editor's Notes
- #4: As a person under the influence of drugs exhibits definite clues. Because some drugs act as stimulants and others as depressants, not all of the following clues will be present in each case and, in many cases, a person may be under the influence of a drug without exhibiting any of the clues. The following performance and behavior problems, however, are common to many employed individuals who abuse alcohol and/or other drugs.
- #6: More deaths, illnesses and disabilities stem from substance abuse than from any other preventable health condition. Today, one in four deaths is attributable to illicit drug use. People who live with substance dependence have a higher risk of all bad outcomes including unintentional injuries, accidents, risk of domestic violence, medical problems, and death.
- #7: Although initial drug use may be voluntary, drugs have been shown to alter brain chemistry, which interferes with an individual's ability to make decisions and can lead to compulsive craving, seeking and use. This then becomes a substance dependency
- #8: Drug use, abuse, or addiction among employees and their family members can cause expensive problems for business and industry, ranging from lost productivity, absenteeism, injuries, fatalities, theft and low employee morale, to an increase in health care, legal liabilities and workers' compensation costs.
- #9: The fact that some people use substances such as alcohol or illicit drugs, or that some people misuse prescription drugs is not new. The awareness that the abuse of substances may affect the workplace just as the workplace may affect substance abuse is, however, increasing in acceptance. Many aspects of the workplace today require alertness, and accurate and quick reflexes. An impairment to these qualities can cause serious accidents, and interfere with the accuracy and efficiency of work. Other ways that substance abuse can cause problems at work include: after-effects of substance use (hangover, withdrawal) affecting job performance
- #10: Drug and alcohol abuse not only affects the abuser and his/her life, but also the lives of family members. When recovery begins, your whole family should be involved when possible. Family therapy is a good option for recovery with substance abuse.
- #11: Drug and alcohol abuse affects different family structures in different ways. These family structures are adapted from The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services "Substance Abuse Treatment and Family Therapy" guide:
- #12: Families where addiction is present are oftentimes painful to live in, which is why those who live with addiction may become traumatized to varying degrees by the experience. Broad swings, from one end of the emotional, psychological and behavioral spectrum to the other, all too often characterize the addicted family system. Living with addiction can put family members under unusual stress. Normal routines are constantly being interrupted by unexpected or even frightening kinds of experiences that are part of living with drug use. What is being said often doesn’t match up with what family members sense, feel beneath the surface or see right in front of their eyes. The drug user as well as family members may bend, manipulate and deny reality in their attempt to maintain a family order that they experience as gradually slipping away. The entire system becomes absorbed by a problem that is slowly spinning out of control. Little things become big and big things get minimized as pain is denied and slips out sideways.