why is drug abuse a social problem?
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Abuse of alcohol and drugs is a worldwide problem. In countries of the South Asian region including Bangladesh, Butan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, the drugs commonly abused are heroin, cannabis, opium, and pharmaceutical preparations. Abuse of alcohol and tobacco in combinations with other drugs also is seen in these countries. Abuse of drugs not only poses a threat to the individual’s health but consequently gives rise to socioeconomic problems.
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To conclude, we must understand that narcotic addiction is a complex multi-faceted problem which has not responded to traditional rehabilitation approaches. There appears to be a need, consequently, for establishment of a variety of research programs geared to answer the outstanding questions, and for the coordinated efforts of community agencies to sustain the addict in the community by offering him a spectrum of services on a number of levels—to my mind—along the lines of the comprehensive community mental health center described earlier. We need to undertake socio-cultural studies to understand the addict in his own “tribal culture,” his outlook and private goals, resistances to abstinence and the “square” culture. An epidemiological, public health, and community psychiatry approach also appears indicated in order to study the etiology, manner of spread, prevention and control of narcotic addiction and the optimal points of intervention.
We are finally realizing that the problem of narcotic addiction has been oversensationalized rather than subjected to objective study and research. We are only now beginning to see it in better perspective as part of the far more pervasive and serious problem of drug abuse, which probably affects a much larger part of our population, including the middle class, than does the addiction to opiates and their derivatives. The concept of drug abuse implies that the use of a drug is dangerous or harmful to the user or to society, and that formal mechanisms of social control are justified. Although research and social evidence show that barbiturate and amphetamine use are harmful, we have been far more tolerant of them and quite irrational on the subject of narcotic use. The historic development of our national stereotypes and attitudes would in itself constitute a most worthwhile subject for study and undoubtedly shed light on the workings of our larger society.
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