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    Effects Of Drug Addiction

    The effects of drug addiction are far reaching and go technique 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 influence 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 reduce the feelings of the crash. Marijuana and alcohol obtain in the way of with motor control and are reasons in a lot automobile accidents. Users of marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs may experience flashbacks, undesirable 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, together with increased sexual activity among drug addicts can greatly increase the occurence 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 the bulk frequently involved are cocaine, heroin, and morphine, often combined with alcohol or other drugs. Many drug users partake in criminal activity, such as burglary and prostitution, to raise the wealth to buy drugs, and some drugs, especially alcohol, are related with violent behavior.
    The user's preoccupation with the substance, plus its effects on mood and performance, can lead to marital troubles 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 via withdrawal soon after birth, and fetal alcohol syndrome can influence children of mothers who consume alcohol during pregnancy. Pregnant women who acquire the AIDS virus via intravenous drug use pass the virus to their infant.
    Drug abuse affects society in a lot ways. In the workplace it's 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 bulk of homeless people have either a drug or alcohol problem or a mental sickness - a lot 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 aid for an addiction is NOW before its effects become so far-reaching, they cannot be recovered.

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