Drug Abuse - learn about it and how to protect yourself from its effects

Greetings, I feel delighted to write this fantastic enlightenment post concerning drug abuse.

Drugs are vital to human life today since we face many health challenges and they are used to cure these ailments and restore our normal health. Sadly, some people today abuse drugs.

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Drug abuse

Drug Abuse refers to the intake or usage of drugs whether soft or hard without the doctor's prescription, advice, or recommendation. Self-medication is also involved in drug abuse. Regular intake of addictive items like marijuana, cigarette, alcohol, and Indian hemp is also a form of drug abuse.

In what ways have you observed people abuse drugs?

Today, I have seen many people misusing drugs in so many ways. This involves:

Taking in drugs once they feel ill, without consulting a physician.

Taking hard drugs

Taking drugs outside the timetable given by the doctor.

Taking more than the doctor has prescribed. (Overdose)

Taking in drugs through the wrong source. (Some drugs are meant to be chewed or swallowed, but some people smoke or inject them).

Reasons why drug abuse is common

Lack of Orientation: Many people today do not know the negative effects of drug abuse, that is why they have given in to such acts.

Peer Pressure: Most youths today take hard drugs today because they see their mates doing so. They take these drugs for them to feel among and in turn, they become addicted to them.

Ignorance: Ignorance is a very deadly disease that is also affecting many drug abusers. Many people know the effects of drug abuse but they purposely have decided to continue with the abuse.

Depression: Some people take hard drugs when they feel downhearted or depressed so that they can get high or feel happy again. Sadly, intake of hard drugs is not a cure for depression.

What are the harmful effects of drug abuse?

It is addictive

Drug abuse weakens the immune system which increases the risk of illness and infection.

When injected drugs are abused it can lead to heart attacks, collapsed veins, or blood infections.

Drug abuse results in abdominal pain, which can also lead to loss of weight and appetite.

Drug abuse strains the liver and this makes a person prone to liver failure.

Drug abuse can lead to Seizures, stroke, or brain damage.

Addictive drugs especially can make daily living more difficult because they affect a person's way of thinking and decision-making.

Drug abuse increases the body temperature and then results in other health problems.

Ways of preventing or even eliminating drug abuse

It can be prevented in so many ways like:

Enlightenment: Some people have limited or even no knowledge about the harmful effects of drugs, therefore, they need to be taught about it. This will stop them from abusing drugs.

Government ban: The government should ban those addictive or hard drugs and stop people from selling them. In this way, the drugs will not be available for those abusers to see them and consume.

Punishing Law offenders: After banning the drugs, proper action should be taken to enforce it by punishing people that still sell and take these hard drugs.

What else can you write about drug abuse?

Many cases of mental disorder in the world today is caused by the intake of hard drugs. Therefore, drug abuse is never the right thing to do. In cases of depression, a good meal or discussion with good friends can help relieve the body of thoughts and not alcohol.

Additionally, some drugs or addictive items like alcohol should not be sold to people who are not mature or old enough to take them. This precaution will help to stop young ones from getting to take alcohol when they are not eligible to do so.

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