Effects of Drugs

What do these things do to you?

Drugs give users a short feeling of happiness, joy and euphoria. A feeling of being "spaced out". This "high" lasts for a certain period and then wears away.

These feelings are then followed by stronger negative feelings. Examples are depression, anxiety, sickness, vomiting, guilt, and a need for more drugs.

What do drugs do to your body in the short term?

There are many affects of drugs since they are all different. Most drugs affect your nervous system and brain.

Some drugs can cause immediate death or permeate brain damage. Side effects of cocaine are that they can give you heart attacks even though you are in total shape.

Sleeping is harder once doing drugs. Many drugs will increase breathing rate, heart beats per minute and blood pressure. They will make your hair and skin pale in color. Give you bad breath or stain your teeth. Drugs can also affect your sexual performance.

What do drugs do to your body in the long term?

Every time you take drugs, the dosage becomes less and less effective. This results in larger doses every time to get the same (or even less) effect of euphoria. Many people have drug overdoses (OD) and suffer from brain damage or death.

Drugs can cause problems from lung cancer, liver problems, brain damage, heart attacks and more.

Drugs begin to affect your own personal life. You begin to change in personality once you have taken drugs. Teens begin doing things they never thought they would ever do to feed the drug habits.

Many teens go into prostitution for their drug addiction. Some will steal or even kill. Every day they go through life wanting to get high.

Withdrawal is really hard for some people because their brains have become used to getting these drugs.

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