The Effects Of Drugs on Social, Mental And Physical Health

Introduction

In this modern age, people are exposed to lot of stress on a daily basis. We interact with more people. go to new places facing a lot of difficulties and challenges situations etc. Many youngsters, teenagers and even grownups become victims of drugs. From small doses of prescription drugs to stimulant based drugs all cause harm the social mental and physical health of an person.

Each year more and more lives are getting ruined by drug abuse and addiction. This is mainly due to people's ignorance about the ill effects of the drugs. While many awareness camps are spreading knowledge and awareness about stimulant based psychoactive chemicals they don't cover the ill effects of store brought over the counter medications like painkillers and others drugs. Research has proven that they are equally harmful to people's social mental and physical health.

The most typical social symptom is sedentary behavior. Addicts usually tend to spend most of their time to themselves. Youngsters especially show more violent traits like picking up fights unnecessarily, increased temper and anger towards all etc. The most profound and damaging mental symptom is person's addiction to particular drug. They become so dependant that they will do anything to get what they want. Their sense of reason and ethics diminish. Without rehabilitation their entire sanity is at risk.

Physically, these drug damage the nervous system, heart, kidneys and other vital organs. Fits and seizures are also common in people with drug abuse. Once the social mental and physical health of the person is compromised rehabilitation is a very long tedious process. While all the three aspects social mental and physical health are interrelated mental and physical health have more damage. While it has been seen that some drug addicts can still function properly at a social level their mental and physical heath will surely degenerate.

Some believe such drug abuse is highly common only among celebrities and rich but statistically it has been proved that its incidence is more or less even in all kinds of people. The most common risk factor is high stress.

Rehabilitation and time it takes is solemnly dependent on the extent of the damage the drugs have caused to social mental and physical health of the person. It can take anywhere from few months to even a year or more in serious circumstances. But most of the physical damage done can be reversed over a course of time with medicines and treatment. But mental, emotional and social damages will need a longer time. It must also be noted if the patients do not complete their treatment properly they have a high probability of returning to their old ways. There are many drug rehabilitation centers opened around the world for helping drug addicts. The center we choose must be specialized to handle the particular addiction and must have experience of similar cases.

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