Social Advocacy

Substance Use:
Substance have different types smoking, marijuana, alcohol and other stuff like that which are
harmful for the mind, physical health, according to WHO (World Health Organization)
adolescence 10 to 24 years old children mostly use the drugs, tobacco and alcohol. In young
adults and adolescence an important development factor is to groom their personalities. One in
five boys and one in ten girls are smokers in 13 to 15 years of age as an example.

Substance is used because of social problem for instance social discrimination, family faces
some problems, individual have some their own problem mental disorder, stress, anxiety, and
some other particular problems that are poor health, any accident of some individual, any event
which cannot be lot in the individual mind, unemployment also main factor that individual uses
the substance. We have to take steps to stops this abuse in the life of adolescence life, so they
live their life happily. Now it had increase over past few decades, the use of substance abuse
impacts the endocarditis, increase the mortality rate, different drugs effects body different
ways, they have both physical and psychological effect on human long term and short term,
you cannot imagine the harmfulness of drugs and the drugs can affect you, when you start to
use the drugs. Illegal drugs cannot be stopped but we can stop it through the social advocacy

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and build the rehab center in the country. You will act, respond feel, and think differently if
you take drugs, maybe you can control it through actions and thought.

Drugs harm your body even you think that it cannot but it has harmful impacts on your body,
because of casual user you think that drugs won’t be bad effects, but the mostly victim can
faces bad results because the drugs taker consume more doses with the passage of time, for
instance drug user depend on the doses of drugs and in the long time the doses become more
and it effect the victim psychological and physical health and can also effect the social life,
there is no level of safe way to take drugs you have to remember in the mind. You have to take
care when take any kind of drug because every kind of drugs have bad on your mind and body.

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Different effects of different drugs:
Body’s central nerves system have drugs bad effects, there are three types of that drugs have
affected the mind feeling, behaving and thinking, and the three types are stimulants,
depressants, and hallucinogens:

Stimulus, the central nervous system boosts up the speed of mind, in this situation the mind
pick message receive and form the message, respond more quickly and more confident and
alert the mind.

Hallucinogens, change the naturally thinking, there are lack of hearing power and you see all
the things in negative ways.

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Depressant, in this situation the function of nervous system will slow, in small quantity the
message will go through your mind slowly and more than relax conditions, in consuming the
large quantity the it causes the vomiting, death depressant and unconsciousness, it effect the
ability of your respondent conditions, concentration and coordination, this type of person
cannot the operate the heavy machinery.

Drug-related harmful risk factors:

Effectiveness of drugs dependent on the quantity consume by the individual, how long it have
effects, the drugs power and types of drugs, the manufactured of the drugs how it prepared in
the labs, there are different consumption pattern of drugs for instance the injection and
inhalation are more likely to lead more then normal dose quantity. Injecting person faces HIV
and Hepatitis diseases. These are more harmful disease that effect mortality rate of patient.
There is specific alcohol which are very harmful for the mind, physical health, there are alcohol
and some other variety of drugs in the market which effect the individual in the society.

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Addiction effect the family system:
Whole family faces the circumstances of their addictive family members, but different family
have different structure for instance America have separate family and, in the Asia, there are
joint family structure, according to family structure the family effect differs or vary according
to structure of family. Different family respond according to their own personality traits, for
example if someone in the family the father is not use substance abuse the act like a “superhero”
or he will treat well with the children because the father is superstar of their children. Some
family need legal protection because their family members make many difficulties for them
who does substance abuse, family members feel anxiety, depression, guilt and embarrassment,
anger and fear. Coming generation also face the results. For example, if some child born in
substance abuse family his parents does not give autonomy to him because there is trust factor.
Children mostly saw their parents and they learn from home, some children father give money
to buy the pack of cigarette for them, it impact bad image on the children, they start to smoke
as well when they reach at the age of 13 to 15 to check the taste of the substance.

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Addiction effect the Neighborhood and surrounding:
Neighbor also face bad experience because substance abuse individual is not reliable, because
due to usage of this thing he can be solvent and ask money or any help from coworker, friends,
his coworker also keep distance due to his lack of productivity, his workload uplifted by his
coworkers. People who’re substance abuse they become isolated slowly with coworker,
friends, family and at the end society.

There are following characteristics that are describe by the Reilly that’re patterns of
interaction, that are represented by the family member child or may be someone in the
parents that does substance abuse:

Inconsistency of Parents: parents should set the boundaries because inconsistent enforcement
in rule and regulation by the parents lead children into stress, anxiety and depression so he
wants to overcome the depression use substance to satisfy.

Negative communication: The negative communication, any complain, any displeasure event
discussion and criticism among the elder family members should not be occur because it creates
the negative thought in the children, that lead to substance abuse.

Expression of anger miscarried: they repressed their anger when someone in the parents or
children who has fear to demonstrate the substance abuse.

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Self-medication: Whenever someone want to cure his depression, he or she substance abuse
to overcome it.

Unrealistic expectation: If we expect someone that he or she will compete all the condition
and you have more expectation to someone parents have expectation on children and the
children vice versa. In this circumstances people substance abuse mostly, because it’s in the
nature of men that they focus on that thing in which he or she have interest, someone
expectation damage may lead to substance abuse if he has lack of will power.

Social support recover substance abuse:

It plays vital role in the treatment of the individual who does substance abuse, they recover
individual by helping to create the value in society, make strength their place in the community
to make him family member, productive members on the workplace and in the community.
Relationship between peers also intervene in the treatment of the substance abuse individual.
Neighborhood also make positive drug abuse person that how much he or she have supportive
to their communities, through this they recover and make their treatment possible. Key role is
play by spouse, peer, family members, children and neighborhood. They focus substance abuse
without take them into account, and he will become recover.

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Advocacy cope up with addictive disease:
Play vital role to cope with the addictive persons there are rehab center they are playing their
role to cope with substance abuse individuals. Advocates can do treatment more professionally,
effectively and efficiently, for the long period of time, those who come from poor and
unhealthy environment they take more time span than who came from healthy environment.

The successful cases percentages increase Recently studies showed in Post-clinical advocates
and supports of networks. Accountability in long term and encouragement also provide the
support of external support, advocacy will also grow in the future. Now the number of rehab
center are increasing day by day.

In the advocacy center therapists, friends and family members, recovery interventionist, peer
advocates, support group and recovery center available for the treatment of drug abuser
individuals. In the recent years the most important role is peer advocacy considered in the
center.

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There are following services that peer and another rehab center providing:

❖ Rehab center identify the individual and contact with them

❖ Make themselves as a role model
❖ Medical appointment attendance
❖ Support of crises
❖ Educate about recovery of the individual
❖ Assist them more practical abilities and skills
❖ Educate for using public transport
❖ Build relationship in the society

Apart from this the friend and family also play important role in treatment, motivate the
individual for treatment, for taking medicine etc.

There is also another way for the treatment of the individual that’s called cognitive behavioral
therapy, through this the individual can be recover through re-framing the situations and
empower the patient.

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