ID: Class: 12 Subject: Biology Topic: Human Health and Disease Type: Case Study Year: 2025

Question:

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 a lack 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. [Table No. 1 and Table No. 2 with data on drug use disorders, people using drugs, and associated infections (HIV, Hepatitis C), and images (p) and (q) of plants are implied]
  • (a) 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.
  • (b) 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.
  • (c) (i) Give the scientific name of (p) shown in Table No. 1.
    OR
    (c) (ii) Give the scientific name of (q) shown in Table No. 1.