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Effects
of Drug Addiction
The effects of drug addiction are far reaching and go way beyond just affecting the life of the addict. Drug
addiction has an effect on families, companies, schools, and friendships. It also has an effect on the body of the
addict and could possibly affect the health of those around the addict.
People who use drugs experience a wide array of physical effects other than those expected. The excitement of a
cocaine high, for instance, is followed by a “crash”: a period of anxiety, fatigue, depression, and an acute desire
for more cocaine to alleviate the feelings of the crash. Marijuana and alcohol interfere with motor control and are
factors in many automobile accidents. Users of marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs may experience flashbacks,
unwanted recurrences of the drug's effects weeks or months after use.
Sharing hypodermic needles leads to an increased risk of HIV and some forms of hepatitis. That, along with
increased sexual activity among drug addicts can greatly increase the incidence of people becoming infected with
AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.
There are over 10,000 deaths directly attributable to drug use in the United States every year; the substances most
frequently involved are cocaine, heroin, and morphine, often combined with alcohol or other drugs. Many drug users
engage in criminal activity, such as burglary and prostitution, to raise the money to buy drugs, and some drugs,
especially alcohol, are associated with violent behavior.
The user's preoccupation with the substance, plus its effects on mood and performance, can lead to marital problems
and poor work performance or dismissal. Drug use can disrupt family life and create destructive patterns of
codependency, that is, the spouse or whole family, out of love or fear of consequences, inadvertently enables the
user to continue using drugs by covering up, supplying money, or denying there is a problem.
Pregnant drug users, because of the drugs themselves or poor self-care in general, bear a much higher rate of low
birth-weight babies than the average. Many drugs (e.g., crack and heroin) cross the placental barrier, resulting in
addicted babies who go through withdrawal soon after birth, and fetal alcohol syndrome can affect children of
mothers who consume alcohol during pregnancy. Pregnant women who acquire the AIDS virus through intravenous drug
use pass the virus to their infant.
Drug abuse affects society in many ways. In the workplace it is costly in terms of lost work time and inefficiency.
Drug users are more likely than nonusers to have occupational accidents, endangering themselves and those around
them. Over half of the highway deaths in the United States involve alcohol.
Drug-related crime can disrupt neighborhoods due to violence among drug dealers, threats to residents, and the
crimes of the addicts themselves. In some neighborhoods, younger children are recruited as lookouts and helpers
because of the lighter sentences given to juvenile offenders, and guns have become commonplace among children and
adolescents. The great majority of homeless people have either a drug or alcohol problem or a mental illness-many
have all three.
Drug addiction has an effect on all parts of life for the drug user, the family, and society as a whole. The time
to get help for an addiction is NOW before its effects become so far-reaching, they cannot be recovered.
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