Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Prevention is the frontline response to…

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Prevention is the frontline response to drug use. Effective interventions address the underlying conditions contributing to drug use, such as alack of connection to family or community, instability, insecurity, trauma, mental health issues, etc. When addressed, these factors can effectively prevent the initiation of drug use and the progression to drug use disorders. Study the few key figures of drug use given below and answer the questions that follow.

  1. What do you infer from the figures in Table No. 1 about the people with drug use disorders, 2022 (in million)? State any two of your observations.
  2. How are Hepatitis C and HIV related to drug use disorders by people, as shown in Table No. 2? State the correlation between the two.
  3. (i)Give the scientific name of (p) shown in Table No. 1.

Solution

  1. Number of men taking treatment was higher than women/1 woman out of 18 was treated/1 man out of 7 was treated/1 in 11 persons was addicted to Cannabis sativa or Papaver somniferum/drug user have increased by 20%/ 292 million people were consuming drugs in 2022
  2. Contaminated needles sharing between drug addicts transmits diseases like Hepatitis B and HIV. Both diseases are primarily caused by viruses.
  3. (i) Cannabis sativa

Asked in: 2025

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