Transcript Drugs - IES Domingo Miral

Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
OF HUMAN LIFE.
Drugs
Drugs
Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
What we want
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We are keen on adventure.
We want to experience everything for ourselves.
We respect our peers´ opinions.
We follow those who know ‘where it’s at’.
AND
• Deep inside we know our parents anxiety isn’t
entirely stupid
What Teens Wish Their Dads Knew About Them
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Why do we take risks?
• We just want to have fun.
• We don’t want to think
about whether our liver,
lungs or brain will be
damaged.
• We think that those things
are not going to happen to
us.
• Anyway, we would rather
take the risks.
Why Teens Take Risks
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
An option to get what
we want may be
drugs (although,
of course, we don’t
agree)
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
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Drugs
There are medical and recreational drugs.
Recreational drugs may be:
• Legal or
• Illegal
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Legal and illegal drugs
Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Medical drugs
• Doctors prescribe drugs to their patients to help
them recover from an illness of a bad condition.
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Recreational drugs
Recreational drugs are used for pleasure or
relaxation of the body or mind. As a pastime
or for amusement.
They may be:
• Legal or
• Illegal
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
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Legal drugs
• Alcohol, tobacco and caffeine are legal in our
society.
• Nevertheless:
– Alcohol causes an enormous
number of deaths each year.
– Smoking cigarettes lead
to a whole variety of
life-threatening diseases.
– Caffeine increases the
level of stress that modern
society puts on us.
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Drugs
Alcohol effects:
• It is a central nervous system
depressant (even if most
people think the contrary)
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• It produces a lack of inhibition
and this is why we feel able to
do or say what we wouldn’t do
or say in normal condition.
• Most of the road accidents are
caused by alcohol.
Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Alcohol effects:
• The effects may vary
according to the age, sex,
weight, the quantity and
rapidity of consumption.
• False security feeling.
• IT is the drug that causes
most social (educational,
work, family) problems.
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
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• The most consumed drug in Spain
• The drug that causes more problems both:
– Social (vandalism, fights, economical and legal
problems, mistreatment and so on) and
– Sanitary (suicide, traffic accidents, deaths,
psychological illness, work and traffic accidents and so
on)
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Tobacco
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Skin-ageing effects
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• It is a nervous system
stimulant (although people
may think otherwise)
• The components are: Nicotine,
tar, carbon monoxide, irritants.
• It produces: wrinkles and rides
(ageing), you feel tired when
doing sport, it gives you bad
breath, it makes your fingers
and teeth yellow.
• It costs a lot of money we
could use in a different way
Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Illegal drugs
There are many. Some of them are:
• Cannabis
• Ecstasy
• Other drugs
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Social problems in our actual world
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Cannabis
• Even if many people campaign for its
decriminalization because it is:
– An anti-depressant, sleeping aid, painkiller
– Less harmful than alcohol and tobacco
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• Others think:
Cannabis Effects
– It isn’t physically addictive but one can
become psychologically dependent.
– It frequently causes unpleasant experiences like having
a hangover
– It can make people lazy, docile and it makes them lose
motivation.
• In fact, cannabis may cause psychotic disorders.
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Drug industry
The income of the ‘drug barons’ is amounts to $500,000
million a year: more than the American defence budget.
When they get into trouble, ‘drug barons’ are able to hire the
best lawyers, ‘buy’ corrupt governments and RAISE their
own private armies.
A person buying 2 grams is making a person like this even
richer.
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The dark trade
Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Drug Industry
The global drugs industry is responsible for many unfair,
unethical and damaging practices like dividing the dose
and mixing it with other substances to earn more money.
The business flourishes through a combination of greed and
vested political interests together with criminal operations
and society's demand for drugs.
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CIA drug trafficking
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Social problems in our actual world
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Black market
Poor tropical countries have little choice but to produce
drugs. The big market is in drug distribution.
We normally always buy
something at the lowest
possible prize, regardless
of the reason why it’s
cheaper.
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Would people accept to pay
more for cigarettes, coffee
and alcohol if it prevents
damage to their own
country’s economy?
Why Drugs Will Never Be Legalized
Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Marketing
Marketing is the weapon they
use and its influence is as
powerful as any form of
violence
People are invited to
consume through the use
of many different ways of
persuasion.
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The global drugs industry
knows our needs and
hopes and plays with
them using us to earn
more money.
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Social problems in our actual world
THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF HUMAN LIFE.
Conclusion
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Even if we are invited to behave
in a different way and even if it
isn’t easy, we should want to
take up the challenge.
We want to be free,
to try to decide by ourselves.
Would you like to join us?
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Now, we would like to discuss:
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• Do we really want to live our lives
as slaves of a substance?
• Do we want to make those
criminal people, who
abuse other people and
countries, richer?
• Do we realize the effects
that drugs cause at both
physical and
psychological levels?