The Worlds Biggest Unsolved Problem: Drugs
- What are they?
- Tranquilizers are a kind of medicine that helps you go to sleep. Tranquilizers are the most used drug in the world and are the most attempts in all sorts of accidents.
- A type of tranquilizer
- The benzodiazepines are used for medicine and drugs. The fist tranquillizer to be invented was the Librium, than the Valium was the next one until the early 1980’s. Benzodiazepines were the most popular in Britain. More women take them than men do. A lot of patients have become addicted to them.
- Why?
- When you try to make them into tea or cook them that’s what makes them a drug. Some people that use cocaine or other type of drug use tranquilizers to calm the down.
- What are the effects?
- Tranquilizers can be fatal when use with another drug. Tranquilizers inhibit to the mental activity, to the alertness, similar skills, and to the impair of the driving effects. If the tranquilizer is mixed with other drugs that can cause people to die. When taking tranquilizers or any kind of drug even thought you take only a little piece it’s diffidently dangerous.
- Tranquilizers can lower the use of the drug a little. The tranquilizers are only available if a doctor requires it, they are only in the class C. It’s an offence to just give them to another person, or to get them with out a doctors prescription. If the tranquilizer is injected to any kind of the person’s body then it becomes a class of drug under the 1971 act. Drug A is a very high drug. Some ways tranquilizers can hurt you are: you can lose your concentration, to your blood, to the heart, headaches, and you start to not know at all what you’re saying or who you’re hurting. It also can cause to your tensions, it could change your mood, toxic effects, and you can even have nightmares.
- When to get help?
- When you can get help is when your drug use is affecting your schoolwork. When you are having problems with family members or friends. When you use a variety of drugs and your brain is thinking that it’s time to get smart and think about drugs and the rest of your life.
- Street names
- Tranks, drawners, happy pills, mood modifiers, mood elevators, antianxiety agents (anxiolytics), and Bzd’s.
- Statistics
- 6.0 million persons were current users of psychotherapeutic drugs taken nonmedically (2.5 percent). These include 4.4 million who used painkillers, 1.6 million who used tranquilizers, 1.2 million who used stimulants, and 0.3 million who used sedatives. These estimates are all similar to the corresponding estimates for 2003.
- Side effects
-skin rashes
-nausea
- -dizziness
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