Senior Citizens, Culture, and Substance Abuse

According to the aging process of Erik Erickson, it can be better explained by despair of self-integrity. In the comprehension stage it is easier to understand why people look to drug abuse rather than dealing with the living life you live in. In many cases desperate people become panic, their lives end, and they may be dissatisfied with their life. Other people in the field of integrity maintain their lives and good relationships and often do not regret as to whether they did.

Drug abuse usually means drugs and alcohol. This is two fields that we usually do not connect with elderly people, but elderly people such as young people sometimes use their legal and illegal drugs and alcohol for self treatment, which is serious It leads to health results. In addition, elderly people may use alcohol intentionally or unconsciously by mixing drugs. Because of the stereotype concerning the elderly, many medical staff can not ask the elderly about the possibility of drug abuse. 11% to 15% of AIDS patients in the U.S occur in elderly people over 50 years of age. Between 1991 and 1996, the incidence of AIDS in adults over the age of 50 years was more than twice that of young people. Elderly people are less likely to use condom, the immune system naturally decreases with age, symptoms of HIV (fatigue, weight loss, dementia, rash, lymph node swelling) resemble the symptoms of the elderly. Likewise, the stereotypes of aging in sexual activity and drug abuse make this problem hardly recognizable.

Substance abuse, usually related to alcohol or drugs, is more common in the elderly than done. According to the National Aging Committee, by 2020, the number of elderly people with the problem of substance abuse is expected to double to 5 million people. Because many people do not associate drug abuse with the elderly, they are often overlooked and overlooked by physical examination. In addition, elderly people are often prescribed multiple times for long-term use. The National Institute of Pharmacology found that drug abuse is usually caused by mental disorders or drug therapy received by other patients because they can not pay for their own drugs.

Drug abuse is very common in today's life. There are many substances called abuse, the most common substance of abuse is street drugs. Other abused substances include alcohol, followed by medicines and prescription drugs. If you drink too much, everything may be misused. This may include drugs. Drug abuse is identified by abnormal behavior, so drug abuse is restricted. There are two types of drug abuse, they are a normal, boring way of using substances without indulging them, and these people cease to use them, or ultimately to them It will be addictive. The second category is people who are addicted to these substances. People usually think that they can get rid of poisoning at any time, this is not to happen. People get addicted and they feel that they can not survive without it. This is the stage of losing complete control and can not be recovered at this stage without external support. Usually, one can get control from time to time, and this rule continues to change attitude, and there is a turn between control and non-control.