The fact that the use of drugs adversely affects health, everyone has heard and known repeatedly, but despite this, the number of people using them continues to grow. Today we will figure out what harm this addiction can actually bring.
Harm of addiction
It is proved that the younger the organism, the greater the effect on it of toxic substances. The peculiarity of drugs is that their influence is detrimental at any age. In other words, a person in his entire life simply does not have time to develop immunity against these substances.
The danger of drug addiction is that narcotic poisons affect all organs and systems without exception. Remember that the first and one-time attempt at their use will inevitably lead to horrific disturbances in the life of the organism or even lead to disability.
What leads to drug addiction?
Addiction is a one-way road! This conclusion comes to many scientists engaged in research in this area. Regardless of gender or nationality, drug addiction leads to tragic consequences and destroys the destinies of young people in different parts of the world.
Young girls who use drugs deliberately deprive themselves of natural beauty. Their appearance becomes careless, the skin becomes dull with a yellowish tinge. The general appearance of such people is so painful that passers-by begin to follow their views with sympathy. Girls who have bad habits such as smoking or drug addiction to mask these shortcomings use excessive amounts of cosmetics, powders, blush.
Patients with drug addiction often lose weight quickly, due to which the skin loses its elasticity, which gives the person an even older look, the posture changes. Hair lose its natural sheen, become dull and brittle.
Lifetime with regular use of drugs is reduced by an average of 20-25 years.
Addiction in the family can cause such a phenomenon as codependence . The essence of it is that the relatives of the addict are subject to eternal stress and their personalities are deformed like the person of an addicted person. These changes can be traced at the physiological level, but the co-dependent himself usually does not pay attention to them, because he is puzzled by the care of the addict.
Psychological violations are more difficult to notice, especially considering that in society they are considered positive, among them such as: workaholism, perfectionism, sacrifice, endurance.
Female addiction differs from the male in that the woman most often resorts to taking drugs in a state of depression, and in men, depression results from the abuse of the same substances. Therefore, drug addiction is formed in girls much faster than in boys. This leads to the impossibility of fulfilling the main life goal - the birth of a child.
Even the use of such an "easy" drug as hemp can cause diseases of the female genital organs and the violation of the menstrual cycle, and frequent use of marijuana blocks ovulation.
The social consequences of drug addiction, is the loss of social activity associated with the fact that the addict loses his work capacity and loses the status of a full-fledged cell of society. The majority of drug addicts do not work anywhere and live at the expense of relatives or engaged in dishonest, criminal activities in order to obtain money.
Ways of preventing addiction
The organization of events of this type is built on the basis of targeted programs, united by a general concept of preventive work.
The objectives of this work are to create an environment in the society that prevents drug abuse and reduces the harm from their use, as well as a notification that drug addiction is treated and the provision of alternatives to narcotization.