What is Drug Abuse?

● The use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other
than those for which they are meant to be used, or in excessive amounts.

● What is Drug Addiction?

● Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person's brain and
behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medicine.
Substances such as alcohol, marijuana and nicotine also are considered drugs.

● effectss

● Each drug causes different physical reactions, depending on the type of drug. Some will make
you feel more awake, alert and energetic. Others will give you a calm, relaxed feeling. Some alter
your perceptions and can cause hallucinations. Others may make you feel numb.

● Long-term use and larger doses have negative effects that can seriously harm your health, even
cause death, including disease risks from sharing needles, and permanent damage to the brain
and other organs.

● Mental health

● Studies show that drug use increases your risk of mental health issues such as anxiety,
depression and psychosis. People with mental health issues also have a higher rate of drug use
problems.

● Financial issues

● Some drugs can be very expensive – the street price of illicit drugs depends on availability and
demand. If you have become dependent on a drug, you could end up in financial trouble.

● Illicit drug use causes a significant burden to the Australian economy. For example, the estimated
total social costs for methamphetamine alone are around $5 billion annually – through crime,
loss of productivity and increased health care costs.

● Relationships

● Because drugs can change your behaviour, they can affect your relationships with family and
friends. There is an increased risk of injury and/or assault to both yourself and other people.

● Legal issues

● Many drugs are illegal and you can be fined, or sent to prison, for having them. If convicted of a
drug offence, you could end up with a criminal record – this can make it harder to get a job,
apply for a loan, or travel overseas.

● Sports

● Sports people and professional athletes who use illegal substances risk damaging not only their
physical health, but also their reputation and the integrity of their sport.
 ● Drugs and driving

● Alcohol and other drugs can seriously affect your driving skills. You are more likely to have an
accident, injuring yourself and/or others. The crash could be fatal.

● OPIUM WARS

● The roots of the Opium lay in a trade dispute between the British and the Chinese Qing Dynasty.
By the start of the 19th century, the trade in Chinese goods such as tea, silks and porcelain was
extremely lucrative for British merchants. The problem was that the Chinese would not buy
British products in return. They would only sell their goods in exchange for silver, and as a result
large amounts of silver were leaving Britain.

● In order to stop this, the East India Company and other British merchants began to smuggle
Indian opium into China illegally, for which they demanded payment in silver. This was then used
to buy tea and other goods. By 1839, opium sales to China paid for the entire tea trade.

Chinese resistance

● The Chinese wanted to stop the trade. Although opium was valued as a medicine that could ease
pain, assist sleep and reduce stress, by 1840 there were millions of addicts in the country. Illegal
opium imports were also eroding what had once been a favourable balance of trade.

● Chinese efforts to end the trade were initially successful. In May 1839 they forced the British
Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, Charles Elliott, to hand over the stocks of opium at
Canton for destruction. This outraged the British, and was the incident that sparked conflict.

MEXICO WARS

● The illicit drug industry in Mexico primarily targets foreign markets, but the industry's
socioeconomic and political effects within Mexico have led to corruption, militarization, violence,
and unintended victims.Mexico's drug control policies gravitated toward prohibiting production
and interdicting smugglers. At first, Mexico tried to exercise a semblance of control over U.S.
border and drug agents. In the latter phase of prohibition and interdiction, Mexico attempted to
deal not only with aggressive U.S. agents but also with a smuggler counterstate growing on
Mexican soil. U.S. prohibitionism created an extremely profitable climate for drug smugglers to
use Mexico as a country for the production of marijuana, heroin and cocaine. While
socioeconomic and political costs of drug consumption have mounted, Mexico's policy initiatives
to reduce these costs have simply aggravated rather than solved the drug problem. Drug
trafficking and control policies have particularly affected Mexico's criminal justice system. Courts
and jails are full of drug cases, limiting the system in terms of what can be accomplished in other
areas of domestic law. The Mexican criminal justice system has concentrated the bulk of its
resources on enforcing drug laws, even though domestic drug use in Mexico is relatively low.

ROBERT CLIVE
 ● Robert Clive was a great military genius Of the East India Company and won the battles of
Plassey, Buxar etc. He was made the Governor of Bengal after winning Battle of Plassey. He was a
courageous and resourceful Military commander, who ultimately became an Imperial Statesman.

● After winning the battle of Plassey, Robert Clive was made Governor of Bengal but his opponents
in Britain carried out an investigation into his behavior in India. Although he was not found guilty
of the charge of “Plundering India”, the disgrace coupled with his addiction to opium, caused
him to take his own life in 1773.

● Opium was brought by the EIC from China and was brought to India through Portuguese Ships
and the East India Company established a monopoly on opium cultivation in the Indian province
of Bengal, where they developed a method of growing opium poppies cheaply and abundantly.

THE MAFIAS

● The Mafia is behind all the sales of the small drugs like cigarettes and vapes, this is the main
reason why they are still seen around the world, the countries are scared of the mafia. The least
what they can do is tell them to not smoke and write effects of them on the boxes to spread
awareness, but they can not stop their market. For example, many cigarette boxes are seen in
Pakistan markets and the common thing in all of them are that they warn the smoker.

● AMERICAS HISTORY

● In the later times, tobacco was used as a currency in America.

● Many people made a fortune from this business. What they did was that they stored many
pounds of tobacco in their houses and waited for it’s value to go up and when it did they sold it
to gain the profit.

● This has become unpopular now, but people still have it.

6,000 BC – Native Americans first start cultivating the tobacco plant.

1492 – Christopher Columbus first encounters dried tobacco leaves. They were given to him as a gift by
the American Indians.

1492 – Tobacco plant and smoking introduced to Europeans.

1531 – Europeans start cultivation of the tobacco plant in Central America.

1571 – European doctors start publishing works on healthy properties of the tobacco plant, claiming it
can cure a myriad of diseases, from toothache to lockjaw and cancer.

1730 – First American tobacco companies open their doors in Virginia.

1791 – British doctors find that snuff leads to increased risk of nose cancer.

1912 – First reported connection between smoking and lung cancer.

1924 – Over 70 billion of cigarettes are sold in the US.

1967 – Surgeon General definitively links smoking to lung cancer and presents evidence that it is
causing heart problems.

1970 – Tobacco manufacturers legally obliged to print a warning on the labels that smoking is a health
hazard.

1996 – Researchers find conclusive evidence that tobacco damages a cancer-suppressor gene.

When Prophet (S) Reached Jerusalem, Angel Jibrail Presented Him Two Vessels, One Of Wine And The
Other Of Milk, Prophet Selected Milk Vessel Later Angel Jibrail Disclosed That "If You Had Taken The
Wine Vessel, Your Nation Would Have Gone Astray."

It was narrated from 'Abdullah bin 'Amr that the Messenger of Allah (@) said:
"Whoever drinks wine and gets drunk, his prayer will not be accepted for forty
days, and if he dies he will enter Hell, but if he repents, Allah will accept his
repentance. If he drinks wine again and gets drunk, his prayer will not be
accepted for forty days, and if he dies he will enter Hell, but if he repents, Allah
will accept his repentance. If he drinks wine again and gets drunk, his prayer
will not be accepted for forty days, and if he dies he will enter Hell, but if he
repents Allah will accept his repentance. But if he does it again, then Allah will
most certainly make him drink of the mire of the puss or sweat on the Day of
Resurrection." They said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is the mire of the pus or
sweat? He said: "The drippings of the people of Hell."
ISLAMIC POV ON DRUGS

● Although drugs are haram and therefore prohibited in Islam, illicit drug use is widespread in
many Islamic countries throughout the world. In the last several years increased prevalence of
this problem has been observed in many of these countries which has in turn led to increasing
injecting drug use driven HIV/AIDS epidemic across the Islamic world. Whilst some countries
have recently responded to the threat through the implementation of harm reduction
programmes, many others have been slow to respond. In Islam, The Quran and the Prophetic
traditions or the Sunnah are the central sources of references for the laws and principles that
 guide the Muslims' way of life and by which policies and guidelines for responses including that
of contemporary social and health problems can be derived. The preservation and protection of
the dignity of man, and steering mankind away from harm and destruction are central to the
teachings of Islam. When viewed through the Islamic principles of the preservation and
protection of the faith, life, intellect, progeny and wealth, harm reduction programmes are
permissible and in fact provide a practical solution to a problem that could result in far greater
damage to the society at large if left unaddressed.

Effect of drugs on our religion

● By doing drugs, we Muslims may forget about who Allah is, and something that leads us to
forgetfulness about Allah, which is Haram and we should always avoid it.

● Although we will be given alcohol to drink in Jannah but that alcohol will be " Sharaban
Tahuran". Sharab means something which can be drunk. It is mentioned in the Quran. "Tahur"
means that which is itself pure and uncontaminated, and which also makes other things pure,
just as He says in the Qur`an, “We sent down purifying water from heaven.”

School Performance

• Students who do not take drugs are most probably going to get better grades than those who
take drugs. Students who take drugs cannot focus properly on their studies which results to bad
grades and behaviour. They only crave for drugs all the time and are mentally absent in class.
These students try to skip or in some cases bunk their classes in order to take drugs.

Economic Costs

The economic cost of drug abuse in the United States was estimated at $193 billion in 2007,1 the last
available estimate. This value includes:

• $120 billion in lost productivity, mainly due to labor participation costs, participation in
drugabuse treatment, incarceration, and premature death;

• $11 billion in healthcare costs – for drug treatment and drug‐related medical consequences; and

• $61 billion in criminal justice costs, primarily due to criminal investigation, prosecution and
incarceration, and victim costs.
Turnover and Absenteeism

• From 2002 to 2004, full‐time workers aged 18‐64 who reported current illicit drug use were
more than twice as likely as those reporting no current illicit drug use to report they had worked
for three or more employers in the past year In the same period, full‐time workers who were
current drug users were more likely to report missing two or more workdays in the past month
due to illness or injury, when compared with workers who were not current users. Full‐time
workers who were current drug users also were about twice as likely as non‐users to skip one or
more days of work in the past month.