Wednesday, July 1, 2009

6) Does the drug have a medical use? If so what is it?

-It can be used to cure migraines and cluster headaches
-it has a 45% success rate in curing alcoholism versus therapy's 12%
-therapists have had success in giving it to mental patients and taking it themselves to better understand schizophrenia.(Brain disorder)

12) Is the character physically or psychologically addicted to the drug and explain why?

-The Character is physically and psychologically addicted to drug. He used drug to feel euphoria and decrease feeling of dyphoria when he felt stresses.

24) Create a small quiz of 10 questions for your peers to take to test their knowledge or a link to one already. You should know all the answers and b

1) True or False. LSD was first made in 1938 by the chemist Dr. Albert Hoffman in Switzerland.
2) True or False. LSD is lysergic acid diethylamide.
3) True or False. LSD is expensive and hard to find.
4) List 3 short term effects of LSD
5) List 1 long term effects of LSD
6) List 2 methods of taking LSD
7) List 3 reasons why people take drug
8) Which drug class LSD involves?
Narcotic/Stimulants/Depressants/Hallucinogens/Inhalants/Cannabis/Anesthetics
9) If your friend takes drug, what is good way to stop him from taking drug?
10) What is JIS’s drug tolerance?

11) Close your eyes and imagine a drug abuser, then breifly describe him or her. Then imagine a drug misuser and briefly describe him or her. Finally

Character:
27years old man
Vietnamese
Inoccupation
Likes: reading
watching movie
dancing
singing
drinking alcohol
Dislike: getting bad grade
some teacher
Favorite food: Vietnamese
Not popular
Not wealthy

Story
He was born in poor family in Vietnam. Hoping to escape from his poor condition, he tried his best on his school work to be successful in the future in order to take care of his family. His hard work paid back by letting him to enter Harvard University. Fortunately, he graduated Harvard University with the top grade. Then he began searching for a good job. On the last day of school, he went to the club with his friends. In the club he saw his friends taking drug, LSD, and he was asked to try it once. He tried it, yet worrying about the bad outcome he might have, because he wanted to be popular, or be the ‘cool guy’ among the society. Still, he thought he would be able to quit drug without any struggles. However, obviously, addiction of LSD was powerful thus making him to be a heavy drug user. Regardless of the fact that he was a drug user, he found a good job by not telling his drug use. However he was very stressed because of hard work and lack of sleep. Thinking he would get rid of those stresses, he took drug every night after his work was done. While taking drug, he wasn’t able to feel any dysphoria. Thus he finally became tolerant to a drug, elevating the drug doses dramatically. Using more drugs let him to experience euphoria. Few years later, his body became very weak and he knew that his illness was from overdose of drug. However knowing that didn’t help him to withdraw it. The finally one of his office partners found out that he was a serious drug user, accusing him for taking illegal. drugs. He happened to get fired from his work, go to hospital, and lose his dream that he wished to come true when he was a real ‘cool guy.

22) We may think the following of abusers, “Why don’t they just make themselves give up on drugs? All they need is willpower.” Please think of things

It is extremely hard to give up drug especially who takes drug for long period of time. However, some people might think that it is easy to quit the drug. They might feel this way because it is not his/her problem. We need to think in drug abuser’s perspective. For example, if someone ask you to stop playing games or stop eating your favorite food, probably most people can’t quit easily. Moreover, drug addiction is harder to quit because it involves physical and psychological effects. Therefore, close family or friend need to take care of him.
For example:
-give some informations about result.
-meet someone who quits using of drug.
-meet someone who fails to quit.
-change/decrease the amount bit by bit

20) How do you help a drug abuser who does not want to quit or even acknowledge that there is a problem? There is something important the abuser must

-If someone is taking drug, you need to take him/her to nurse or hospital to give information about drug to drug abuser. Especailly about result of taking drug.

18) How would your family be changed if a family member started abusing drugs or was addicted? How would your family deal with the individual.

-Financial problem
-no enthusiasm in job
-caution (chance to spread drug to family member)
-no accusation to protect family member
-one whole family looks immoral
-his/her friends look immoral
-mistrust

-make drug user to take medical treatment
-ask help from anti-drug organization (UNAD)