Drugs: the Impact and how to resolve

Assalamualaikum wr wb

Good morning,

First of all I would like to thank to the honorable Committee, honorable adjudicators and the
respectful audience.

I am Armeino Fadhlan Atana from SMA PLUS PGRI CIBINONG. In this occasion I would like
to deliver a speech on “Drugs: the Impact and how to resolve”.

Dear audience,

Talking about drugs, what do you know about drugs? Do you know the impact? Do you know how
to avoid it? Before we discuss more, I would like to tell you what drug is.

Based on the Oxford dictionary drug is a substance taken into the body affects chemical reaction
in the body.

Ladies and gentlemen,

There are 2 terminologies of drugs.

First, drugs as medicine

As a medicine, drug is consumed to treat a sick person, Reduce pain, and to maintain the body
fitness. The consumption must be under controlled by the doctor. Drug related with narcotic, such
as Morphine is used to reduce pain for wounded person.

Second, drugs related to narcotics.

Drug as narcotic is addictive drugs that reduce the user's perception of pain and induce euphoria

Nowadays Indonesia is not only a drug distribution market, but also has become a drug trafficking.
Even a place for drug production. As the data of Indonesian national narcotics board (BNN) in
2017, about 2,2% of the Indonesian total population as a drug abuse. Surprisingly more than
230Tons of meth or shabu and 119Tons marijuana are spreading all around Indonesia.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I will tell you what the impact of drugs are.

1. Health effects and risks

There are so many effects and risks if you consumed drugs. Like it will decrease your health
immunity, lowering the level of consciousness, affecting the brainwork so your brain will be
thinking using it more and more, and the highest risk when you overdose using drugs, you will
lose your life.

2. Social Effect

The social effect are you will ruin your family reputation, exile by the society, lost your future and
you will be sentenced to jail.

So this is our challenge as Indonesian young generation to stop and fight the drug abuse.

Dear audience,

How to avoid those impacts?

There are so many ways to avoid the impact, such as avoid ourselves from bad environment that
can influence a drug abuse, improving our knowledge about drugs, do other positive activities like
doing sport, hobby and even gather with your family, last the most affordable way is to assure
yourself to SAY NO TO DRUGS .

Undeniable, the addict may live together with us. If we happen this situation, what should we do?

Mental health experts have used several methods or strategies to help those drug addict to get rid
of their drug addiction.
1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

This strategy teaches that patients/victims have to increase their self control ability to stop drug
consuming.

2. Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)

This last strategy is to find what the patients motivation, to get help of a drug abuse from their own
motivation.

To conclude my speech today, there are two impacts if you consumed drugs health effect, and
social effect. There are also ways to avoid the impact, like avoiding ourselves from bad
environment and improving our knowledge about drugs. Last if someone has already been addicted
to way to help the recovery are by treating them in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and
Motivational Enhancement Therapy.

That’s all my speech today. The last words I want to tell is,

SAY NO TO DRUGS

Thank you very much for your attention.

Good morning,

Wassalamualaikum wr wb