7 Ways Drug Addiction Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life

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Drug addiction can affect your life in every possible way. Once into the habit of consuming drugs, your life will not be the same. The reason why you take drugs can be caused through a variety of circumstances, from personal loss, feeling of insecurity, emotional disturbances, or even the curiosity to experiment. However, remember, drugs are not a solution to any of your problems, neither is it entertainment to help you indulge in your curiosity.

In short, drug addiction can ruin your life. It shatters your dreams, your self-respect, and blocks every road to progress in life.

  1. Health Hazards

The health risks associated with drug addiction range from minor discomforts to death. It can cause blackouts and result in road accidents. Drug addiction affects every organ of your body. It lowers absorption of the nutrients you consume and reduces your immunity, thereby making you susceptible to infections and other illnesses. By affecting your brain, it alters your ability to focus and learn, whilst also reducing memory.

  1. Emotional Disturbances

Drug addiction not only ruins your physical health, but also your emotional health. Addiction to drugs can cause anxiety, stress, and depression. Drugs negatively influence the way your brain sends and receives information, plus they also impair cognitive function. Continuous use of drugs makes you lose self-control and affects analytical thoughts. When you lose control of yourself, your decisions are naturally confused, which can make the situation more chaotic. Emotional disturbances can have a heavy impact on physical health. The worse you mentally feel the worse you become physically. Hence, it is essential that you seek a rehab that addresses both your physical and mental health.

  1. Shattered Family Ties

Family ties can take a hard blow if you are addicted to drug. Addiction can distance you from your life partner and trigger many conflicts, which may seem unending and lead to legal separation. Your drug addiction may cause your family members to feel abandoned, embarrassed, or even guilty. An overwhelming sense of self-pity is often seen in family members of the addicted person. Their self-worth becomes low and they shut down from the outside world. The atmosphere at home is so tense that family members remain emotionally disconnected. Children in the family are traumatised, their emotional stability affected. Things take a turn for the worst when children are influenced and tragically, this may eventually lead them onto the path of drug addiction.

  1. Professional Goals Go Out Of Focus

You have been working all your life with the ambition to rise up the ladder in your profession. With the intervention of drugs, you lose the focus to establish yourself in your chosen profession. Drug addiction makes you take days and weeks off of work. It impairs your judgment skills; you fail to co-operate with your co-workers, you lose an inclination to work; and your productivity level goes down resulting in the loss of trust from management. Eventually this may lead to job loss.

  1. Impaired Social Life

Man is a social animal. The need to socialise, make friends, and live in a healthy and amicable environment is essential to fulfillment. Addiction to drugs can ruin your social life, as your relationship with society suffers when drugs gain importance. By missing out on weekend parties and social gatherings, you are not only losing the opportunity to have some fun and relaxation, but you do not get to catch up with your friends on recent experiences. The more aloof you are the more distant you become to your friends. Soon enough, your absence will be insignificant.

  1. Financial Loss

One of the worst effects of drug addiction is the financial loss you incur. In spite of your potential to earn more, addiction makes you show less interest in your career, which can result in loss of revenue. Your addiction affects your passion for work so much that you fail to identify a career opportunity when you see one. You limit your earning potential, which is not considered favourable by employers. This may lead to job loss, worsening your financial stability further.

  1. Legal Problems

Drug addiction, as mentioned above, can mess with your life. It may result in legal problems owing to the change in your attitude. Drug addiction affects your behavior, and you may be tempted to commit crimes to get the money you need to buy drugs. Ignoring traffic rules whilst driving and being booked by cops, and the suspension of a driver license coupled with the penalty of heavy fees are some of the common legal consequences faced by addicts. Arrest records can ruin  both your career and your life.

Sources

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugs-brains-behavior-science-addiction/drugs-brain

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64258/

https://www.theholisticsanctuary.com/johnny-the-healer/

http://www.nacoa.org/pdfs/The%20Set%20Up%20for%20Social%20Work%20Curriculum.pdf

Helen Garvey
Author of Beauty Zone https://www.beauty-zone.co.uk, Healthy Woman https://www.healthy-woman.co.uk, and New Promo Codes http://www.newpromocodes.co.uk. Written on various topics, including finance, relationships, health and beauty, skincare, and health and fitness.