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ADDICTIONS

KINDS OF ADDICTIONS

There are tliree main addictions - drag taking, alcoholism and smoking cigarettes. CONSEQUENCE

Ali of them cause illness, threaten our Health and even bring about early death. Some of them ruin careers, happy family life and lead up to conflicts with the other members of family and sometimes also to their addictions.

WHY YOUNG PEOPLE START?

Young people think that they look morę maturę when they are holding a cigarette. Teenage girls replace food with a cigarette because they think tliat it helps them in slimming. Some of people start smoking cigarettes because of a stress, a failure, a dissatisfaction or a boredom. A smoker also says that a cigarette calm down him.

Teenager are particularly exposed to the threat of drug-taking. They look for some supematural experience or hope to find a sense of life. When they are in pleasant and happy condition it isn’t noticed for them how quickly they fali into addiction.

PREVENTION

The most difficult is to overcome those liabits. Tlie best way is never to start, but if the habit already exists we must be very strong willed to stop. There are special clinics for alcoholics where well-trained staff help them get rid of drinking. But even when the person recovers, there is never 100% certainty that he will not drink again. There certainly should be morę educational films, books and leaflets distributed among people to show the real threat brought on by smoking, drinking alcohol and taking drugs. If the results of addictions were described in schools and clinics by teachers, doctors, sociologists and psychologists the young would be morę aware of die danger and be much morę careful.