Transcript Drug Abuse and Misuse

Drug Misuse – the use of a substance for unintended
purposes or for intended purposes but in improper
amounts or doses.
Drug Abuse – the deliberate, persistent, excessive use
of a substance without regard to health concerns or
accepted medical practices.
A few years ago, my uncle started smoking pot. My grandma eventually ended up
kicking him out. He lived on the street for three months, and at some point during that
time, he started using meth. He was sent to the ICU because he had a hole burned in his
lung. On the second day in the ICU, he died. Thankfully, they were able to bring him
back, but they had to put him into an induced coma. He was in the coma for nineteen
days before they let him wake up. He was in the ICU for two more days before he went
to his regular room so that they could observe him for a few more days. Every one was
stressed out while he was in the hospital, wondering what they did wrong. When he got
out, my grandma put together a photo album with pictures of him in the ICU. He would
look back at those when he wanted to use the meth. He stayed off the drugs for four and
a half years before he snapped, and started using the pot again. He soon got tired of the
pot, and went back to the meth. He was arrested in May of this year with meth on him.
He is serving a six month sentence.
You would always being doing stupid
things, and after wards, you would feel
guilty, and you would have no one to
blame but your self.
 Your family would feel horrible, and
everyone would feel like a part of them is
dying with you every time they have to
walk into the hospital room and see a
bunch of tubes coming out of you, when
the tubes are the only things keeping
you alive.
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You would be jittery if you weren’t
regularly using the drugs, and if you
were, you could get cancer, or, like my
uncle, burn a hole in your lungs.
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If your friends were smart, they wouldn’t
hang out with you any more, because
they wouldn’t want to be tempted to do
drugs.
18 year old Amelia Sorich was injected twice with a mixture of drugs
known as a speedball by her supposed friend, Macall Aubrey Peterson.
Amelia passed out and didn’t wake up. Not wanted to get caught,
Paterson and her boy friend took the body and dumped it in the foot hills
of Bountiful. Person was taken to court, and admitted to every thing. "I
was very high and I wasn't thinking," Petersen tearfully told parole board
chairman Curtis Garner. "I was being completely selfish."
Mental/emotional:
You will be grumpy
unless you are using
the drugs, and if
you are using the
drugs, you could do
stupid things.
Physical;
1. Small
blood
spots on
your skin
2. Hyperexcitabilit
y
3. a faint
skin odoreither
sweet or
acrid
Social: Your friends will be stressed
out and not want to hang out with
you.