drug abuse effects

by ezzat amier

Drug abuse is rife in many countries. Billions of dollars are spent internationally preventing drug use, treating addicts, and fighting drug-related crime. Although drugs threaten many societies, their effects can also be combated successfully. This essay looks at some of the effects of drug use on society, and suggests some solutions to the problem. Marijuana, Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamine all these are dangerous drugs can harm our body part and also cause of death.

        Drug abuse, also called substance abuse or chemical abuse is a disorder that is characterized by a destructive pattern of using substance that leads to significant problems or distress. Teens are increasingly engaging in prescription drug abuse. It leads to significant problems that use of substance can cause for the sufferer, either socially or in terms of their work or school performance. If the drug is suddenly stopped, the addict suffer from painful and uncontrollable depression and various other.

        It has become a social problem to family, economy and the society. The treatment of the drugs abuse is expansive because we need the special medical and the professional treatment to help the individual using drugs lead a normal life back. This thing can drain the family financial because the treatment is more than one year. From a study case that I have read, individual that use drugs because of the stress daily live and from the peer pressure around them.

       Aside from that, drugs abuse also effect on the society and the economy for the country. From AADK (Agensi Anti Dadah) statistic, drugs abuse has disruptive social effect and our body health. If we continued using drugs in our daily live, we can addicted severe and will cause us to think insane to get drugs. Because of that, many tragic events occurred such as child murder of mother, child stabbed father for money to buy drugs that we often read in the newspapers. The amount of the drugs they buy can used for the established of business buy a thing that we want or something else. Drugs abuse also may turn people in poor quality works due to absence and inability to function normally. This thing can make the country poor because they don’t have a people to work and get the profit.

        Like the majority of other mental-health problems, drug abuse and addiction have no single cause.The use of drugs is related to the occurrence of unsafe sexual behavior that places adolescent at risk for pregnancy of contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The effects of using drug and covering up for the abuse can lead to behavior that causes difficulties at home and in society.

       Drugs abuse substantially reduces sober time available to a person. Further, that time will be spent in heroine and establishing the necessary contacts. The family is destroyed, personality is stunted, and emotions become intense and distorted. In order to help and take drug abusers out of this habit, government must take concrete steps to stop the smuggling and illegal entrance of drugs in the country. The drug dealers must be ostracized and avoided like devil’s agents. Debates and programs must be arranged and telecast on T.V to familiarize the people with the danger of drugs. Further, a campaign must be initiated to control and catch the drug traffickers.

       In conclusion, although the problem of drugs may seem impossible to eliminate, there are concrete steps that can be taken to weaken the hold of drugs on society. The danger from drugs is too great to ignore for us and our children. The government and NGO should strengthen their campaign to stop the drugs abuse to save the community and the whole people from drugs.