Abstract
Drug use and abuse is an old as mankind himself. Men have always had a desire to eat
or drink substance that make them feel relieved stimulated or euphoric. Drug abuse is
the use of illicit drug resulting into physical or psychological harm. Drug users who take
drugs to seek instant remedies to their depression, frustration and anger suffer
physically, economically, emotionally as well as socially. Drug use particularly injection
drug use, puts people at risk of overdose death relapsing dependence, and medical
conditions which are different and costly to treat. The risk for problems with drugs often
goes hand in hand with risk for others social problems. The researcher has presented
under a broad overview of general measures of intervention and specifically harm
reduction approach to drug control in terms of its definition principles stages and a
practicing model which can be adopted in other areas and cities where the problems
exists Dead people cannot recover from addition. Therefore, it is important to provide
knowledge and awareness of effective interventions to minimize the negative
consequences of active drug use and dependents.
Syeda Farhana Sarfaraz. (2013) DRUG ABUSE AND MEASURES OF INTERVENTION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HARM REDUCTION APPROACH, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 52, Issue 1.
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