Effect of drug abuse
Drug abuse
Drugs are substances that affect the normal functioning of the body system. The elements may affect the bodies either negatively or positively according to the medication used, and this drug includes; alcohol, marijuana, khat, cocaine, heroin and morphine. Drug abuse has the following effect to the user; addiction, relationship breakup, health complication, loss of jobs and financial problems.
Short term health effect of the drug may include the change in eating mood of a person this may cause by loss of appetite, increase and decrease in heart rate, increase in blood pressure, increase in the possibility to heart attack, stroke, and may also lead to death. In contrast, long term effect may include mental illness, cancer, heart disease, hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Addiction is the main effect of drug abuse on use. After using a particular substance for a certain period, the user may be unable to do without the drug or the body stop generally working without the use of the drug. The substance that is taken by injecting it to the body increases the risk of infection, mostly infected diseases by this means are; hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and bacterial infections by use of contaminated needles. Alcohol abuse causes change to brain chemistry since this substance is processed in different body part leading to more damage spread(Yohn et al., 20115). These may cause permanent damage to the user.
Substances that are taken orally such as alcohol may cause damages to the digestive system or also oesophagus thus makes it painful when eating. Increase in a particular substance level in the liver may cause increases in its metabolic works resulting in damage of the liver tissue. Kidneys filters toxins in the bloodstream thus may be affected by a large amount of drugs in the blood. Other drugs may cause a reduction of oxygen reaching the kidney hence causing damage to the kidney(Jones et al., 2016).
Most drugs affect the brains, affecting it negatively. The mind is adopted to repeat experiences that make it feel better.use of substances for an extended period can lead to a change in brain chemicals; hence cannot do without the substances. These substances may lead to loss of memory or even impaired judgment to the addict. Evolution of brain chemicals may change how the brain works and also interferes with the individual capability to make choices(Levran et al., 2018).
A relationship where partner as an addict to the drug is more likely to experience family disputes which may lead to a breakup. Children with parents who are addict to drugs are left wit the duty to take family responsibilities. These may result in lack of noT basic needs such as food, education, health care and even shelter hence living a difficult life. Substance abuse increases the rate of losing child custody since the parent is not responsible enough to give the child the basic needs. Most drug addict strain in their particular workplace, this may cause a decrease in productivity due to use of drugs during a working period or from the hangover from, the drugs they gad taken before reporting in their works. Drug addict gives their Prtiners extra responsibilities at the workplace to increase productivity .they also work for more hours to cover the work of the addict who never showed up in work to take the drugs. Substance abuse may lead to demotion or loss of a job to the drug addict(Knopf, A. 2018).
The more a person uses a drug, the more addictive he comes and the more he uses the money to acquire the substance.this may lead to use long a period and final results to financial problems in future leading to involvement in a crime.
Drugs abuse has a close relationship with crime. Most drugs addict depends on crimes to get the money to buy and pay for drugs. Most crimes have a relation to drugs; such crimes are prostitution, drug trafficking, drug smuggling and even theft. Since most addicts are not entitled to a specific job and need the money to pay for the drugs, they end up involving themself to crim,e to pay for the drugs. Addiction leads to an increase in poverty crime activity and even poverty to the community. Most drug 0ffeders end up in prisons to pay for the crimes. Driving under the influence of drugs is unsafe since the like hood of being involved in an accident is high. Driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol causes reduced reaction time, decreases coordination, causes impair judgement and altering attention on the driver. Drugs may also be aggressive hence leading to reckless driving. This effect on the driver increases the risk to cause an accident(Knopf, A. (2015).
Substance abuse increases the risk to pregnant mothers, and the unborn babies Drugs has substances wish dangerous to the unborn fetus. Increases the probability of a premature baby or giving birth to a low weight baby. It may also lead to congenital disabilities,poor nutrition and learning and behavioural problems in the future.
This may also increase the probability of the child to abuse drugs in the future.
Drugs abuse has adverse effects which are a disadvantage to the user. An addicted person his life becomes useless since his priority is the drugs. Addiction makes the use of undependable to the family and even the society surrounding him.
References
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Levran, O., Correa da Rosa, J., Randesi, M., Rotrosen, J., Adelson, M., & Kreek, M. J. (2018). A non-coding CRHR2 SNP rs255105, a cis-eQTL for a downstream lincRNA AC005154.6, is associated with heroin addiction. PLOS ONE, 13(6), e0199951. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199951
Jones, C. M., Lurie, P. G., & Throckmorton, D. C. (2016). Effect of US Drug Enforcement Administration’s rescheduling of hydrocodone combination analgesic products on opioid analgesic prescribing. JAMA Internal Medicine, 176(3), 399-402.
Yohn, N. L., Bartolomei, M. S., & Blendy, J. A. (2015). Multigenerational and transgenerational inheritance of drug exposure: the effects of alcohol, opiates, cocaine, marijuana, and nicotine. Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 118(1-2), 21-33.