Abuse of Drugs International Concern

Question: Discuss about the Abuse of Drugsfor International Concern. Answer: The topic on the use of the illicit and recreational substances in both Australia and internationally that may cause major health issues has been chosen. Illicit and recreational drugs are the key international concern. This can affect the health and the society in addition to the economy of various nations. Historical factors From historical perception, in the society, people were entrenched to the use of illicit drugs. This happens since long time before administration was able to control the usage. Harmful effects of the illicit drugs were seen since long time (Germov, 2014). From the time of colonization of Europe, dispossession history and socioeconomically exclusion guided the socioeconomic deprivation,. This is connected with the illicit and recreational substances. From the hypothesis of 1973, I became able to form my views. Firstly, I need to find the reason of using the illicit drugs by people and the effects on them. I need to consider the three determinants such as users attitude during usage, type of drug and impact of social and physical settings. Another depicts is the rituals and sanction improvement brings the illicit drug usage under control (Weinberg, 2012). To control the drug abuse, reformation of the social settings play important role. Cultural factors For this purpose, I had to work with the aboriginal people in Australia. I found that the tradition and ceremonies has a great impact on the abuse of drugs. From historical sources, it is seen the aboriginal people are ignored and deprived of education and employment as well as income. These factors influenced them to achieve unsocial behavior and misuse of drugs. Straussner (2012) mentioned that misuse of illicit drugs influence the poor family culture. Illicit drugs affect the personal and professional life that is poor performance level and personal relationships. As a result, they may suffer from mental and physical issues that may increase anxiety. This can make them depressed. Structural factors One of the key factors is the social factors that influence the misusage of drugs. It is seen that mainly the people of lower socioeconomic class and adolescents misuses the illicit and recreational drugs. However, drugs can reduce the stress temporarily. In such case, education plays major role to reduce the misuse of drugs. Misuse of drugs can hamper the lifestyle, awareness, employment opportunities and income of people (Glass, 2016). During working, I found that aboriginal people are at high risk as their education level is low. Social setting has great impact on them therefore; they are forced to leave schools at young age. To reduce the drug abuse, the rehabilitation centers can play significant role. The national legislative structure helped me to shape the knowledge of controlling drug abuse. Critical factors As a health care professional, it is my duty to promote the information about the negative effects of drug misuse. It is my duty to influence those people, who are already addicted to drug misuse and try to take them back in normal lifestyle. I need to build a strong relationship with them. Volkow, Baler and Goldstein (2011) mentioned that the health care professionals need to follow the government legislatives and to reduce the misuse of drugs. Therefore, I tried to apply a key strategy to reduce gaps of health care system and wellbeing of society including the backward people. It is necessary to make the criminal justice system strong globally. Historical factors From the criminalization and regulation, it is seen that most of the time the innocent residents get affected by the drug misuse. Criminal justice structure traps the people for the minor offence. Some of illegal drug suppliers that organize a crime circle threaten public health safety. As a result, sometimes the general people became victim of drug abuse and get punishment. Diversion and beneficial jurisprudence can include some drug initiatives in the criminal justice structure of Australia (Darcq et al., 2016). A balance between the various approaches is needed to maintain. The two approaches are the beneficial jurisprudence approach, correctional centers and drug court. These factors can vary as per the criminal justice continuum along the location. Sometimes, criminal justice structure includes the drug rehabilitation as a part to provide people chances to modify themselves. However, the drunken people needs modification too as for their rush driving many people lost their lives . They need to attend the Alcoholic Anonymous conference. This is a great opportunity for the persons who misuse drugs. The rehabilitate legal retort gives opportunities for addressing alternative way in using drugs misuse possession. According to the Marchman Act, people can get court order to attend the rehabilitation centers via the legislation of state (Preller et al., 2014). In such cases, I need to mention that the legislations and therapeutic justice can offer various opportunities to people to rectify themselves to lead a better lifestyle. Therefore, they need to modify their behaviors and avoid stigmatization. Cultural factors All over the world, various cultural practices accepts the drug misuse. In these cultures, the misuse of drugs is accepted as the tradition in the religion rites. The path and place of consumption get regulation via the self-control, consumption level and sociability. In some cases, the rate of alcohol consumption is higher wine and other beverages are considered as the source of amusement and aesthetic approval in some cultures. In a village of France, it is seen that people takes alcohol on daily basis and they pass the practice in their children too. The than other drug abuses. During the work, I found that in the history, alcohol like children are exposed to alcohol from the age of 2 or 4. However, it is necessary to modify the alcohol consumption of people as it may bring various health issues. Some of the cultures are trying to teach their community to modify their habit of drinking. Livingston et al. (2012) mentioned that the Italian and Jews practice moderate drinking and do not allow the aggressive drinking. Government can imply different legislation to reduce the harm, which develops from the alcohol consumption and misuse of drugs (Society Made Me Do It (Symbolic Interactionism) at Becca Latimer's Blog. 2013). In some cases, occasional drinking can be accepted but regular alcohol consumption is not allowed. Positive culture refers to the drinking control and suggests policies to educate the young people so that they can lead a healthy lifestyle by being a moderate and social drinker. Globally the consumption of the alcohol is popular and there are various cases that show that people are affected very much by the alcohol and drug. The brain and nervous system are very much affected by the drugs and alcohol (Quednow, 2017). Therefore, the society needs to be conscious about the misuse of drugs and alcohol and moderate their habits. Structural factors During focusing on the sociological standpoints, the correct structural factor is the symbolic interaction. This focuses on the abuse of drugs to explain the behavior by providing the motivating messages to the people, who misuses drugs and alcohol. It is necessary to know their views and learning in reality. For example, when a society marks someone as a drug abuser, he continued to misuse the drugs and became addicted to it. It is the duty of symbolic interaction perspective to investigate the reason of the attachment of people with drugs and change in their behavior. Cultural and social group can address the misuse of drugs as their religion part but they do not understand that it harms people. Usage of drugs is good for health at a particular range. When the range goes above the range it becomes harmful people. The social factors influence the behavior of people and leads to the stigma. As a result, various symptoms like anxiety depression are noticed. Government is trying to str engthen the criminal justice structure to reduce the issues of drug and alcohol misuse. In case of using drugs for the medical purpose government modified the rules to reduce the drug abuse. The health and social system is trying to support the care homes for counseling, behavior modification, personal assistance, client centered approaches. I found that harm minimization includes strong communication, positive relationship, empathy, education, support and support to prevent the stigmatization in criminal justice rules and legislation. Critical factors Big pharma plays significant role to raise the concern over the profit above the health care in Australia. MacRae and Hoareau (2016) mentioned that it is to make profit by telling the healthy people that they are sick. In such conditions, the pharmaceutical companies play vital role to define and sponsor the diseases to promote the consumers and prescribers. Pharmaceutical manufacture alliance, doctors, health care workers and service users use the media to frame the situation as the widespread and severe diseases. Such type of health care activities can enhance the cost of health care and increase the stigma for the health care services. The corporate funds can be replaced by the alternatives that are funded about the disease with the independent information. The help of the health belief model and its implementation in the health care practice system may reduce social fear and the stigma. In such cases, the health promotion practices plays significant role. The misuse of drugs is a cause of important health issue and the community apprehension that can affect young generation and hinder the career graph and growth. In Australia, the government and the community associations has esteemed the issues of the misusing the drug. The misuse of drugs became a global social and health issue. This generates an annual illegal marketplace with $6.7 billion. By filling the template, I gained in-depth knowledge of the topic the use of the illicit and recreational substances in both Australia and internationally that may cause major health issues. I came to know that how to work collaboratively during the locating, analyzing, synthesizing, organizing and evaluating various information. 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