Alcohol and other drugs

Alcohol and
other drugs

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The person who in involved in any type of substance addiction face several challenges in daily
like. Because after taking substances it will be difficult for them to conduct their daily basis activities.
In simple term it can be said that, there mind stop work after some level which create difficulty for
them in conducting daily basis operations. Along with this, they also get engaged within any type of
harmful activities which can result in harm to own as well as other people also that can be family or
friends. People have different attitude towards the people who are substance taking as well as of the
characteristics of their addiction modulated stigma in the manner which are mostly consistent with
attribution. For instance, young age people and female with addiction of substance demised several
stigmatizing attitude i.e., greater duration of addiction as well as social influence to utilise drugs
increased them (Sattler, S. And et. al., 2017). Furthermore, characteristics of respondents modulated
stigma: women, younger respondents, and those with higher education expressed less-stigmatizing
responses in comparison of others.
For individual who use drugs or getting recover from problematic drug use, stigma may be
issue to several opportunities as well as rights. Moreover, people who are stigmatized for substance
involvement can tolerate labelling, stereotyping, discrimination, social rejection and many more. Even
when their drug uses have absence of any negative consequences related to the same. People don’t
like to help substance uses person than are people with physical disable or mental illness. According
to the research it has been identified that, mostly healthcare professional have negative as well as
stereotyped views for the people who use illicit drugs. In addition to this, stigma is one of the major
factor which prevent individual from completing as well as seeking substance addiction treatment and
also from using harm reduction services like syringe access program. Within vicious cycle it can be
said that social exclusion created through stigma which result in increasing need for variety of
services using. Apart from this, people who use have stigma towards each other is more common.
There are some AOD users who are the people use socially acceptable or legal drugs like alcohol.
Such type of people may also have negative prejudices against people who are taking illegal
substances like marijuana (Van Boekel and et. al., 2014). People who are using marijuana which is
soft drug have negative prejudices towards the people who are taking hard drugs like cocaine.
Moreover, it will be difficult for health care professional to provide assistance to AOD users.
There are 5 principles to be applied of people with traumatic and violent histories. From which
first is related to safety and security of patients according to which it is essential to develop or create
space for traumatic and violent patients so that they can feel culturally, physically and emotionally
safe. Along with this it will also help professional or doctors to understand about patient’s discomfort