Cannabinoid Abuse And Misuse: Its Connected Impact On Health And Well-Being ebook

CANNABINOID ABUSE AND MISUSE:

ITS CONNECTED IMPACT ON HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. .

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Copyright © IBRAHIM N.A

First Published, 2023

ISBN: 978-1-312-44256-6

Noogul Digital Publishing

Edited by:

Ishaku Usman Gadzama PhD

Senior Lecturer,

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences,

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State

Nigeria

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Okoosi Sunday Adegoke

Human Physiologist

Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria.

Kaduna State, Nigeria

Email: [email protected]

Preface

Cannabinoid Abuse and Misuse: Its Connected Impact on Health and Well-Being is an abridged version of Substance Abuse and Substance Use Disorders: A Global Pandemic among Teenagers and youths: Implications for Counselling. This book made clear how to deal with today's substance-related problems. Abuse of substances and drugs, along with the accompanying physical, social, and mental diseases, has emerged as a global issue. The "Innovative Substances" disclosed in this book have given the issues with drugs, particularly socio-demographic borders, new dimensions.

For the benefit of his broad target audience's reading and understanding, the author has imaginatively categorized cannabinoids in this book using the most comprehensible typology. The book dedicates each Section and Unit to a class, offering a brief history of the class, its Chemical Structures, forms, kinds, and pathogenetic sequences, as well as how to identify symptoms and treat misuse and addiction as well as diseases that are associated to them.

The book should appeal to readers because of its simple layout. The book will be of great use to professionals in the social sciences, education, health, and other helping professions..

Additionally, every family should read and maintain a copy.

Emmanuel Ejembi Anyebe PhD, JP.

Associate Professor,

Mental Health Unit, Department of Nursing Sciences,

Faculty of Clinical Sciences,

College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin

Ilorin 240001,Nigeria.

Mobile: +2348036422771

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Preface

SECTION ONE

DRUG MISUSE, DRUG ABUSE AND ADDICTION

Introduction

Drug Misuse

Drug Abuse

Drug Addiction

Progression In Drug Use

Drug Use Initiation and Progression Phase

Experimentation Phase

Frequent Use Phase

Risky Use Phase

Dependence Phase

Addiction Phase

Crisis / Treatment Phase

Summary

SECTION TWO:

CANNABINOID ABUSE AND MISUSE: ITS CONNECTED IMPACT ON HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Cannabinoids

Classes of Cannabinoids

What do Cannabinoids do?

How are they used?

Effects of Cannabinoids

Cannabinoids and other Drugs

Health and safety

Dependence and tolerance

UNIT ONE:

BUTANE HASH OIL

Chemical Structure of Butane

Other names

How is it used?

Effects of BHO

Long term effects

Withdrawal

UNIT TWO:

CANNABIDOL

Chemical Structure of Cannabidol

What does it look like?

Other Names

How is it used?

Effects of CBD

Long-term effects

Mixing CBD with other drugs

UNIT THREE:

CANNABIS

Chemical Structure of Cannabis

Other Names

Historical Antecedents of Canabis

How is it used?

Effects of Cannabis

Long-term Effects

Using cannabis with other drugs

Withdrawal

UNIT FOUR:

MEDICINAL CANNABIS

Chemical Structure of Medicinal Cannabis

The Endocannabinoid System

Types and forms of medicinal cannabis

Why smoking cannabis for medical purposes is not recommended

Side effects

What can medicinal cannabis be used for?

The Side Effects of Medicinal Cannabis Treatment

General Cautions

UNIT FIVE:

SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS?

Chemical Structure of Synthetic Cannabinoid

What do synthetic cannabinoids look like?

Other Names

How are synthetic cannabinoids used?

Effects of synthetic cannabinoids

Set and Setting

Overdose

Long-term Effects

Tolerance and Dependence

Mixing synthetic cannabinoids with other drugs

Withdrawal

Health and Safety

Summary

SECTION ONE

DRUG MISUSE, DRUG ABUSE AND ADDICTION

Introduction

Addiction, drug abuse, and misuse are all major public health issues. Many individuals frequently use these phrases interchangeably since they all relate to the use of illicit drugs as well as the improper use of legal substances (such as cigarettes, alcohol, and prescription medications). But each issue's interventions differ substantially from one another. The importance of accurately diagnosing a person's drug use is due to this. Medication on prescription has a lot of positive impacts. They can make us live longer, healthier lives when used properly under medical care. However, these same drugs have the capacity to have fatal results and serious adverse effects, particularly when overused or abused. Prescription drugs should only be taken by the individual for whom they are designed and exactly as directed due to this risk of damage.

Drug Misuse

Prescription medications are commonly related with drug misuse. Prescription medications are intended to be taken exactly as prescribed by doctors. This is because these medications might have negative side effects if the instructions are not followed.

Drug Misuse occurs when these drugs are used for purposes that are not in accordance with legal or medical norms.

The FDA (2019) defines prescription medication MISUSE as failing to follow medical directions, although the individual using the medicine is not intending to "get high." If a person is unable to fall asleep after taking a single sleeping tablet, they may take another pill an hour later, reasoning, "That will do the job." Alternatively, a person may offer his headache medicine to a buddy in agony. Those are examples of drug abuse because, according to the FDA, the individual is treating oneself but not in accordance with the recommendations of their health care professionals. Prescription medication abuse can include: taking the wrong dose; taking a dose at the wrong time; forgetting to take a dose; and discontinuing medicine too soon, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

Drug Abuse

Drug abuse occurs when any psychoactive substance, including alcohol, illegal narcotics, and prescription medications, is used improperly to get high or hurt oneself. Since drug user’s exhibit profoundly changed thinking, behavior, and bodily functioning, it is also known as substance use disorder (SUD). According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA, 2019), prescription drug abuse is the use of a medicine without a prescription, in a manner other than as directed, or for the experience or sensations it produces. For instance, drug abuse occurs when someone consumes a prescription medication in larger dosages than recommended in order to "get high" or have a pleasant or euphoric feeling.

The primary distinction between someone who misuses drugs and someone who abuses drugs is their purpose. The former consumes a medicine to cure a specific condition, whereas the latter consumes a substance to provoke specific emotions.