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Personal, Health, Effects
- heart attacks and high blood pressure e.g cocaine
- some can hurt your lungs, liver e.g Alcohol
- Smoking can cause diseases such as cancer, lung infections and coughing
- Drugs that slows you down e.g Heroine and painkillers can make you stop breathing.
- Inhalants can hurt your lungs and airways and stop your breathing
- Drugs such as cocaine and heroine can hurt your kidneys when they failed to function can cause you die.
- Infecting drugs can hurt your veins, using dirt niddles can transmit HIV/AIDS
- All drugs affect the brain hence can make you feel high, low, fast, slow or make you see things that aren’t there
- Drugs can cause poor reproduction especially importance in men
Economic effects
- Economically this manifests itself in prevention and treatment costs, health and hospital costs. establishment of rehabilitation centres requires a lot of money
- impact on public safety – people under influence of drugs pauses major safety risks and costs to people around them and the environment e.g causing accidents
- Relationship with crime. People steal to get money to buy drugs
- Lost labour. The work place suffers decreased productivity, increased sick time and frequent firing.
- poor reproduction especially in impotence men
Social Effects
a) Drugs don’t just hurt the person taking them everyone connected to the person can get hurt; friends, husbands, wives, girl friends, boy friends and family members.
b) drug abuse can hurt people at any age from any background, rich or poor
c) fighting and violence in and outside the home
d) Trouble at work, loosing jobs, (Decrease productivity at work)
e) Troubles in relationships
f) child Abuse, neglect
g) Driving accidents (roads, home)
h) arrest and jail
i) Drug abuse puts a lot of stress on parents, brothers and sister or anyone who is part of the home.
marto answered the question on May 7, 2019 at 08:32