Causes of Drug abuse
List of causes of Drug abuse
Following is a list of causes or underlying conditions
(see also Misdiagnosis of underlying causes of Drug abuse)
that could possibly cause Drug abuse includes:
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Drug abuse: Related Medical Conditions
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Drug abuse: Causes and Types
Causes of Types of Drug abuse: Review the cause informationfor the various types of Drug abuse:
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Alcohol-related disorder:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Numerous biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors appear to be involved in alcohol addiction. An offspring of one parent with alcohol-related disorder is seven to eight times more likely to become an alcoholic than is a peer without such a parent. Biological factors may include genetic or biochemical abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, endocrine imbalances, and allergic responses.
Psychological factors may include the urge to drink alcohol to reduce anxiety or symptoms of mental illness; the desire to avoid responsibility in familial, social, and work relationships; and the need to bolster self-esteem.
Sociocultural factors include the availability of alcoholic beverages, group or peer pressure, an excessively stressful lifestyle, and social attitudes that approve of frequent drinking.
More than 15% of American adults have a problem with alcohol use, and about 5% to 10% of male and 3% to 5% of female drinkers are alcohol dependent, accounting for about 12.5 million people. Alcohol-related disorder cuts across all social and economic groups, involves both sexes, and occurs at all stages of the life cycle, beginning as early as elementary school.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Substance abuse and induced disorders:
Causes
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Psychoactive drug abuse commonly results from a combination of low self-esteem, peer pressure, inadequate coping skills, and curiosity. Most people who are predisposed to drug abuse have few mental or emotional resources against stress, an overdependence on others, and a low tolerance for frustration. Taking the drug gives them pleasure by relieving tension, abolishing loneliness, allowing them to achieve a temporarily peaceful or euphoric state, or simply relieving boredom.
Drug dependence may follow experimentation with drugs in response to peer pressure. It also may follow the use of drugs to relieve physical pain, but this is uncommon.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Alcoholism:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Numerous biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors appear to be involved in alcohol addiction. An offspring of one alcoholic parent is seven to eight times more likely to become an alcoholic than is a peer without an alcoholic parent. Biological factors include genetic and biochemical abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, endocrine imbalances, and allergic responses.
Psychological factors include the urge to drink alcohol to reduce anxiety or symptoms of mental illness; the desire to avoid responsibility in family, social, and work relationships; and the need to bolster self-esteem.
Sociocultural factors include the availability of alcoholic beverages, peer pressure, an excessively stressful lifestyle, and social attitudes that approve of frequent drinking.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Drug abuse and dependence:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Drug abuse commonly results from a combination of low self-esteem, peer pressure, inadequate coping skills, and curiosity. There is also evidence of familial patterns of addiction.
Most people who are predisposed to drug abuse have few mental or emotional resources against stress, an overdependence on others, and a low tolerance for frustration. Taking the drug gives them pleasure by relieving tension, abolishing loneliness, allowing them to achieve a temporarily peaceful or euphoric state, or simply relieving boredom.
Drug dependence may follow experimentation with drugs in response to peer pressure. It may also follow the use of drugs to relieve physical pain, but this is uncommon.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Heroin Intoxication:
Heroin Intoxication - pathophysiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- Well-absorbed from gastrointestinal (GI) tract, nasal mucosa, pulmonary capillaries, and SC and IM injection sites
- Oral dose less potent than parenteral because of 1st-pass hepatic metabolism
- IV heroin peaks in <1 minute; intranasal and IM heroin peak in 3–5 minutes.
- Very lipid soluble; crosses blood–brain barrier within 15–20 seconds
- Extensive distribution into skeletal muscle, kidneys, liver, intestine, lungs, spleen, brain, and placenta
- Rapidly crosses the placenta, entering fetal tissues within 1 hour
- Crosses into breast milk in quantities sufficient to cause addiction
- Excreted in urine as morphine
- Receptor types:
- Mu (or OPLocated in CNS, GI tract, and sensory nerve endings
- Effect: Analgesia, euphoria, respiratory depression, physical dependence, GI dysmotility, miosis, pruritus, bradycardia
- Kappa (or OPLocated in CNS
- Effect: Analgesia, miosis, diuresis, dysphoria
Delta (or OPLocated in CNSEffect: Spinal analgesia, modulation of mu receptors/dopaminergic neurons>
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
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