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    This document discusses drug abuse, its causes and effects, signs of drug abuse, and government efforts to prevent it. Drug abuse, also called substance abuse, is defined as the compulsive and excessive use of habit-forming drugs or substances leading to addiction, dependence, serious psychological or physical harm, or death. Drug dependence develops when drug use becomes compulsive, the drug becomes the main focus in a person's life, and they feel the need to continuously use it to avoid discomfort from its absence.

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    This document discusses drug abuse, its causes and effects, signs of drug abuse, and government efforts to prevent it. Drug abuse, also called substance abuse, is defined as the compulsive and excessive use of habit-forming drugs or substances leading to addiction, dependence, serious psychological or physical harm, or death. Drug dependence develops when drug use becomes compulsive, the drug becomes the main focus in a person's life, and they feel the need to continuously use it to avoid discomfort from its absence.

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    This document discusses drug abuse, its causes and effects, signs of drug abuse, and government efforts to prevent it. Drug abuse, also called substance abuse, is defined as the compulsive and excessive use of habit-forming drugs or substances leading to addiction, dependence, serious psychological or physical harm, or death. Drug dependence develops when drug use becomes compulsive, the drug becomes the main focus in a person's life, and they feel the need to continuously use it to avoid discomfort from its absence.

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    1. 1. Drug Abuse and its Prevention By: Frenz A. Delgado Jr.

    2. 2. Objectives • Cause and effects of drug abuse • Signs and symptoms of a drug abuser •
    Government campaigns to prevent drug abuse • Laws on how to stop drug addiction
    3. 3. Drug abuse • Also called substance abuse. • Compulsive, excessive, and self-damaging
    use of habit forming drugs or substances, leading to addiction or dependence, serious
    psychological injury (such as damage to kidneys, liver, heart) or psychological harm (such as
    dysfunctional behaviour patterns, hallucinations, memory loss), or death.
    4. 4. “ ” A state, psychic or also sometimes physical, resulting from the interaction between a
    living organism and a drug, and characterized y behavioural and other responses that
    always include a compulsive desire or need to use the drug on a continues basis in order to
    experience its effects and/or avoid the discomfort of its absence. Drug Dependence • Is the
    situation or condition that a person finds himself in which he uses or abuses a drug to the
    point that the drug becomes the main focus of his life. Taking a drug becomes a compulsion ,
    a neces

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