HEALTHY LIFESTYLE VRS PERSONAL PLEASURE.

 

 

Would you change your healthy lifestyle for a personal pleasure which you would later regret in this beautiful life?  Beware of what you take inside your body. Nowadays there is the use of non-drug substances such as gasoline, to produce drug-like effects and it is gradually destroying people’s lives.

 
 The comprehensive definition of drug abuse is not based solely on the illegality of the drug that is used, on any specific amount used, time frame of use. As such, drug abuse does include the unwise use of a legal drug that results in public intoxication.

           

 One of the substances abused, among Senior High School Students include alcohol drinking. By definition, drinking is the consumption of beverages containing ethyl alcohol.

           

 Most Senior High School students used beers, and distilled spirits. Having originated spontaneously in nearly every culture, the phenomenon of drinking persists because individuals apparently like the effects it produces. Most students now consider alcohol as a social beverage. 

 
 Myths about alcohol still prevail- that everyone drinks; that drinking is sophisticated, that drinking is an essential part of a happy and successful life; that alcohol use improves thought, physical coordination and social performance as a necessary ingredient of masculinity.  Until such faulty perceptions are modified, efforts at promoting a more responsible approach to alcohol use are not likely to succeed.

 According to Freudian-based psychology, drinking is one way of satisfying hidden dependency needs that students (adults) are forbidden to express. As such, alcohol abuse could be a secret desire for support and care from others, while maintaining an appearance of adult sophistication and independence qualities often linked with alcohol use.

A more contemporary explanation of using and abusing alcohol focuses on the basic motivation of satiation or excessive satisfaction. Drinking becomes an antidote or countermeasure for psychic pain. Psychologically, binging on alcohol is an attempt to cut off negative feeling by reducing stimulation from both the internal or external environment.

Though cigarette smoking has been a popular and widespread practice in the recent past, smokers are now in minority among Senior High School student due to the popularity of alcohol. Smoking cigarette, cigars and chewing of tobacco are potentially dangerous practices leading to various ailments and severe disorders, from discoloured teeth and impaired breathing and fatal illnesses.      

               

These facts are widely known and even accepted by students who smoke. People cite many reasons for using cigarette, including pleasure. The primary addicting substance in cigarette is nicotine. But cigarette smoke contains thousand of other chemicals that also damage health.

           

Some of these drugs are taken as narcotic analgesic.  These pain-relieving drugs frequently used are considered as the very essence of the “drug problem” due to pharmacological and psychological effects of narcotics as well as on the history of their use and abuse. Most students take drugs base on the previous, prescription given to them. 

               
  There are factors in the secondary category that influence, facilitate, or make possible drug-taking behaviour and substance abuse.

The use of advert and media program through the audio visual medium, the promised benefits of taking drugs are familiar. They include a change in a pace or mood, relief from tension and boredom, or just plain fun. Such benefits are also frequently cited in the appeals of television commercials, films, magazines, which depicts drug users,

 and it makes the youth and children especially regard it as a good moral behaviour and therefore to their usage. Such beliefs are also portrayed on television and in motion pictures where characters drink alcoholic beverage more frequently than people in real-life situation.

            Peer group pressure also influence the youth and children to use or abuse drugs through deceit or force. In most cases, they are tricked into believing that drug abuse like smoking Indian hemp can make one stronger, wipe away all forms of fear, make the user more “guy” etc. In recreational or social setting, the power of peer-group influence is considerable among friends and acquaintances.

This is particularly true for adolescents and young adults who have doubts about their own self-identity and are concerned with affiliation. For lonely and emotionally isolated young people in need of belonging to something or someone, the only things they have to do is smoke, and drink.

If you think drug taking symbolises group identification then stop. Refrain from co-participation in an activity that is illegal and further yourself from interrelationships that enable the continuation of alcohol and other drug abuse.  Stay healthy.

Article by....................Patrick  Ansu