Methamphetamine Assessment on Well-Being
HEALTH AS91461 3.1: Analyze a New Zealand health issue.
Drug use by young people in New Zealand
5 Credits
TASK 1: Why is the use of methamphetamine a health issue?
Methamphetamine is an illegal Class A drug that is used excessively in New Zealand by young people aged between 15-24years. They use this drug without knowing the implications it has on them, because they are at a vulnerable age. Its effects are those that no other drugs have. It has a more damaging effect on a person than any other drug has. It affects any person’s well-being and drives them into insanity and in worst cases, death.
Methamphetamine use is a health issue because it is a highly addictive stimulant drug that a person cannot lose the hold of, once consumed. It is so powerful that it captures the whole body’s organs and eats away at them over a period of time. It ruins a person in so many different ways; it economically drains them, physically; a person will start to look 10-15 years older and become anorexic and begin to appear deadly, their skin will start to dry up and there will be holes everywhere on their bodies from thinking that there are bugs crawling under their skin (scratchies, bugging), therefore they begin to dig at their skin with dangerous tools like tweezers, knifes and needles. This is exposure of sharp instruments to a person’s veins, if a vein is cut through, that is a person dead because of methamphetamine use.
This addiction that occurs drives them into consuming large doses of P, which could cause life-threatening conditions, such as renal and liver failure, heart attacks, hemorrhages, strokes and seizures. They consume these large doses because they want to feel that same high that they felt when they first consumed meth. It becomes a very expensive lifestyle with finances running out and young people not having the funds to provide for their basic needs so poverty and health issues increase (number of hospital cases increasing).
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Drug use by young people in New Zealand
5 Credits
TASK 1: Why is the use of methamphetamine a health issue?
Methamphetamine is an illegal Class A drug that is used excessively in New Zealand by young people aged between 15-24years. They use this drug without knowing the implications it has on them, because they are at a vulnerable age. Its effects are those that no other drugs have. It has a more damaging effect on a person than any other drug has. It affects any person’s well-being and drives them into insanity and in worst cases, death.
Methamphetamine use is a health issue because it is a highly addictive stimulant drug that a person cannot lose the hold of, once consumed. It is so powerful that it captures the whole body’s organs and eats away at them over a period of time. It ruins a person in so many different ways; it economically drains them, physically; a person will start to look 10-15 years older and become anorexic and begin to appear deadly, their skin will start to dry up and there will be holes everywhere on their bodies from thinking that there are bugs crawling under their skin (scratchies, bugging), therefore they begin to dig at their skin with dangerous tools like tweezers, knifes and needles. This is exposure of sharp instruments to a person’s veins, if a vein is cut through, that is a person dead because of methamphetamine use.
This addiction that occurs drives them into consuming large doses of P, which could cause life-threatening conditions, such as renal and liver failure, heart attacks, hemorrhages, strokes and seizures. They consume these large doses because they want to feel that same high that they felt when they first consumed meth. It becomes a very expensive lifestyle with finances running out and young people not having the funds to provide for their basic needs so poverty and health issues increase (number of hospital cases increasing).
It damages the love between