Drug Addiction

 What are drugs

Drugs affect the way your body and mind function; they can change how you feel, think and behave. People take drugs for different reasons and in different ways.

Drugs are substances that change a person's mental or physical state. They can affect the way your brain works, how you feel and behave, your understanding and your senses. This makes them unpredictable and dangerous, especially for young people. The effects of drugs are different for each person and drugs

                       How do drugs affect your mind and body

Different types of drugs affect your body in different ways, and the effects associated with drugs can vary from person to person. How a drug affects an individual is dependent on a variety of factors including body size, general health, the amount and strength of the drug, and whether any other drugs are in the system at the same time. It is important to remember that illegal drugs are not controlled substances, and therefore the quality and strength may differ from one batch to another.

Drugs can have short-term and long-term effects. These effects can be physical and psychological, and can include dependency.

Drug use can also result in long-term health outcomes that include: harm to organs and systems in your body, such as your throat, stomach, lungs, liver, pancreas, heart, brain, nervous system. cancer (such as lung cancer from inhaling drugs)

                   What are the various kinds of illegal drugs 

Many drugs can alter a person’s thinking and judgement, and can lead to health risks, including addiction, drugged driving, infectious disease, and adverse effects on pregnancy. Information on commonly used drugs with the potential for misuse or addiction can be found here

The names of various drugs which are illegal drugs:-

Cocaine, DMT, GHB, Heroine, Ketamine, Khat, Marijuana.

Some people under extreme pain get addicted to painkillers like Morphine, etc, which are very harmful and can cause accidental deaths 

                         Drugs and mental health 

The Harmful Effects of Drugs and Alcohol

*Brain Chemistry. The human brain is the most complex organ in the human body. ... 

*Health Complications. Drug and alcohol use impacts nearly every part of your body from      

 your heart to your bowels… 

*Infections. ... 

*Legal Consequences. ... 

*Financial Problems. ... 

Injuries and Death using drugs and alcohol can affect your mental health. It also explains how you can get help to stop using drugs and alcohol. In this section, ‘drugs’ means recreational drugs or alcohol, or prescription drugs. When someone with a mental illness also uses drugs, doctors call this ‘dual diagnosis’ or ‘co occurring diagnosis’

                          Drugs and physical health 

Drug use can affect short- and long-term health outcomes. Some of these health outcomes can be serious, and possibly irreversible.

Drug use can lead to risky or out of character behaviour. When affected by drugs:

•You are more likely to have an accident (at home, in a car, or wherever you are).

•You may be vulnerable to sexual assault or you may engage in unprotected sex. Either of these could lead to pregnancy and sexually transmittedinfection.

•You could commit a sexual assault or other violent act.

•You may find it hard to sleep, think, reason, remember and solve problems transmitted

Drug use can also result in long-term health outcomes that include:-

•harm to organs and systems in your body, such as your throat, stomach, lungs, liver, pancreas, heart, brain, nervous system

•cancer (such as lung cancer from inhaling drugs)

•infectious disease, from shared injecting equipment and increased incidence of risk-taking behaviours

•harm to your baby, if you are pregnant

•acne, or skin lesions if the drug you are taking causes you to pick or scratch at your skin

•needle marks and collapsed veins, if you inject regularly

   Should illegal drugs be taken, especially by young students and in which quantities  

People use drugs for many reasons: they want to feel good, stop feeling bad, or perform better in school or at work, or they are curious because others are doing it and they want to fit in. The last reason is very common among teens. 

Drugs excite the parts of the brain that make you feel good. But after you take a drug for a while, the feel-good parts of your brain get used to it. Then you need to take more of the drug to get the same good feeling. Soon, your brain and body must have the drug just to feel normal. You feel sick, awful, anxious, and irritable without the drug. You no longer have the good feelings that you had when you first used the drug. This is true if you use illegal drugs or if you misuse prescription drugs, The illegal drugs should not be taken, not be taken by everyone or anyone as they are habit forming and taken once, the quantity keeps on increasing day by day. 

  How do drugs be avoided and can stress be taken care of without taking drugs 

Talk to your doctor if you feel down or anxious, depression or stress, for more than several weeks or if it starts to interfere with your home or work life. Therapy, medication, and other techniques are there, rather than going into drugs 

                                  Conclusion

All the legal and illegal drugs are very harmful for health, if taken unnecessarily. One should try to refrain from going for these.

If one gets into one, and needs to quit these drugs, there are rehabilitation centres across the world to help people leave these drugs.