Man has always remained malleable to temptations. In childhood and adolescence, on the path to becoming a healthy, full-fledged personality, each of us is more or less faced with bad habits. Drinking alcohol, smoking packs of cigarettes and even trying drugs, teens are not fully aware of the likely consequences of imitation of adults.
Drugs are Russia's misfortune
Being one of the most acute problems of Russian society, the illegal sale of narcotic substances poses a threat to the country's population, especially to its younger age group. Criminal clerical work on the sale, storage and distribution of synthetic drugs in different parts of the country are huge. Moreover, every year the situation is aggravated by the emergence of new hazardous substances.
A few years ago, the so-called spice - smoking mixes appeared on the territory of post-Soviet countries. Signs of use must be known. This will help parents prevent the multiple negative consequences of children who succumb to weakness in a timely manner. Such mixtures consist of natural herbs and synthetic fibers.
Why is spice dangerous?
To say that spice negatively affects human health is not enough. Smoking such mixtures destroys brain cells, reflecting on the psycho-emotional state of the user. Their effect on the body can be safely equated to the use of potent drugs (heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, etc.). In addition to the clinical “side effects” of smoking spice in the form of nausea, vomiting, dizziness, their lovers often suffer from hallucinations, feelings of anxiety and panic fear. Often addiction leads smokers to a psychiatric hospital.
In addition, it is impossible not to mention which damage to the liver, lungs, kidneys and other organs occurs even after a short or irregular use of agents such as the spice smoking mixture. Signs of use (photos of patients with addiction will clearly help to recognize them in an adult or child) to confuse with the use of something else is quite difficult.
Mental instability as a sign of spice
There are several symptoms that should always be alarming calls for family members. Spice smoking mixtures, the signs of use of which are described below, can cause irreparable harm to a growing body.
Decisive action must be taken if the child has often experienced sudden unreasonable mood swings. The absence of real reasons for that, not related to any circumstances, situations, is the first symptom that a teenager tried spice. Smoking mixtures (signs of use must be known to every parent who is worried about their child) affect the psychoemotional background intermittently, resembling peculiar “waves” of mood. At the same time, they are capable of varying in extreme limits for a rather short period of time: unbridled fun and joy are instantly replaced by apathy and a depressing outlook on life. Such cyclicality has no connection with current events or related news.
Awake at night, and sleep during the day
Violations of biological rhythms in a child who liked the spice also become noticeable to the naked eye for parents. Smoking mixtures, the signs of use of which are clearly evident, affect the shift in the phase of wakefulness and sleep. For example, during the whole day the teenager was lethargic, sleepy, unhurried, and in the evening, after a walk or meeting with friends, he became energetic, active. Such a child can sit in front of a TV or computer all night, listening to music or watching movies.
The next day, the retardation of action returns, and there is completely no desire to stay awake.
Hunger attacks - evidence of spice
The first signs (the use of spice becomes noticeable in stages, and it is unlikely to be able to immediately detect all manifestations) include in your list a symptom such as a failure in the meal regimen. Changes in appetite become noticeable immediately. As a rule, a child becomes hungry in the late afternoon. But during the day, the desire to eat at least something from him is completely absent. Parents should be surprised that after meeting with their mates the largest adult serving of food may seem insufficient.
It should stop on the manner of eating food. Often it is she who catches the eyes of shocked family members: the child seemed to eat nothing for a whole week, he eagerly grabs and bites off every huge piece.
What can happen to spice smokers?
By the way, these signs of spice use by adolescents are also characteristic of people using other narcotic substances. For example, having smoked marijuana or being in a state of getting out of intoxication, a person feels almost the same. Basically, only addicted to the so-called mixes, the teenager tries to return home only after sobering.
It is important to understand how spice smoking mixtures have a poisonous effect. Signs of use, consequences for children should be known to all parents. Sophisticated synthetic compounds present in smoking formulations have a devastating effect on a child’s health, sometimes even leaving no chance for rehabilitation and restoration of organs and systems affected by toxins.
Negative consequences after using smoking mixtures
The harm from smoking mixes for children is as follows:
- The destruction of brain cells occurs, as a result of which its functions may be partially or completely lost. This is due, first of all, to the occurring hypoxia of the brain during the use of the substance. It is the result of the protective function of blood vessels trying not to miss harmful microcomponents. The result of oxygen starvation is the death of neurons.
- The process of puberty in boys buying spice is inhibited. Smoking mixtures, the signs of their use with timely recognition will be a saving signal to the start of treatment, discourage young men from the opposite sex.
- For girls, the consequences are no less deplorable: when using smoking mixtures at an early age, menstruation may not occur at all for girls. Perhaps the development of infertility, menstrual failure, the complete disappearance of reproductive function.
The most common health problems after spice
Cardiovascular diseases can occur not only after prolonged use. First, the heart rhythm shifts, arrhythmia appears, tachycardia becomes almost constant, blood pressure rises. The risk of cerebrovascular accident (stroke) is high. It is peculiar, as a rule, to elderly people, but spice is able to accelerate the onset of this disease. Multiple inflammatory processes in the liver, lungs, the development of oncological processes - all this is found, unfortunately, often, leaving an indelible mark on the health of the smoker.
Short-term memory loss, which increases over time, can also be called a side effect of drug use. In addition, smokers are not only a danger to themselves: their behavior can be a real threat to others. Mental disorders are quite common with regular use of spice.