STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DRUGS (50 marks)

Drug consumption has always been proposed as the first preventable cause of various diseases and deaths worldwide. Drug abuse is a non-adaptive pattern of drug consumption, which leads to frequent problems and adverse consequences, and includes a set of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological symptoms. Consumption of these drugs will have many side effects. Currently, a tenth of death cases around the world is caused by smoking and psychoactive drugs, which will be increased to one-sixth by 2030 (World Health Organization, 2010). Despite harm reduction programs, psychoactive drug use is increasing.Many people experiment with some sort of psychoactive substance at some point in their lives.

a. Define psychoactive drugs and explain the difference between the categories of psychoactive drugs. (8 marks)

b. Provide 3 ways in which a known psychoactive drug harm reduction program can improve their campaign in order to appeal to University students more. [select a drug prevention program that exists in the Caribbean] (12 marks)