Drug Effects on your Health

It’s no secret that drugs, both prescription and illegal, have a negative effect on your health. Each and every time one uses and abuses drugs, their body is going through a plethora of emotions and sensations which can stimulate one’s mood but at the same time, are harming the body and mind. Prolonged drug use can lead to irreversible health complications that have the potential to stick with you for your entire life.

Drug use can result in:

• Cancer
• Lung disease
• Liver disease
• Heart disease
• Stroke

High blood pressure

When a person is under the influence of drugs, they are more willing and likely to partake in dangerous activities that can affect their health. This, in turn, can lead to car accidents and other hazardous mishaps that can negatively affect your health and life. Drugs influence your decision to make bad choices and in fact, enhance your likelihood of doing so which alternatively effect your health.

There are many effects that are related to the lifestyle and side effects of certain drugs. For example, heroin and painkillers such as opioids can essentially stop you from breathing as it drastically slows down your heart rate. Even something that may seem insignificant to a drug user, such as throwing up after getting high, is taking a negative toll on your health.

Drugs Affect Your Ability to Enjoy Things

Drugs and alcohol have the ability to alter your state of mind and change the chemical balance in your brain, causing you to feel high or drunk. Drugs also affect your habits and hobbies. Where you used to enjoy one hobby, such as hanging out with friends, drugs have taken so much control over your life that you no longer enjoy them.

Those who have a drug dependency issue are more likely to have an existing mental health issue as well. Some of these include:

• Anxiety
• ADHD
• Depression
• Personality disorders

Mental health problems along with drug abuse can be treated through a dual diagnosis treatment plan. This sort of treatment works to help the patient manage and cope with both the mental disorder as well as the addiction.

Some short-term effects that drugs have on mental health are:

• Drug-induced psychosis
• Drug-induced anxiety disorder
• Drug-induced mood alterations

Drug Affect Your Mental Health

Those who abuse drugs often may think that if they do not take the substance than there is no damage to them. This is wrong in that drug abuse has long-term effects on mental health even when the individual is not high. When a person becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol, their ability to have self-control is gone. They also become incapable of seeking contentment and happiness within themselves when they are not high. In turn, this results in severe depression and aggravation when they are not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Psychoactive drugs such as heroin, cannabis, ecstasy, and alcohol drastically affect your overall mood. If you are taking the drug to get high and happy, the chances are it will do that for a short amount of time until it does the exact opposite: cause depression and sadness. That is what these drugs do; put abusers on a roller coaster ride of emotion.

Drugs put your health, your body, your mind, and your life at extreme risk. It affects your capacity to make judgments, retain memory and thoughts, and make rational decisions. Not only does substance abuse affect mental health, it also puts you at higher risk of spreading and obtaining infection. For example, injecting drugs such as heroin is a way in which HIV/AIDS can be spread as addicts may share needles with one another in order to get high.

There is always a more promising path than the path of drug abuse. If you are looking for treatment for your addiction, contact WhiteSands Treatment today.