Drug Addiction

How Drugs Can Affect Lives

Although many people know that both recreational drugs like heroin and prescription drugs like Fentanyl can be both harmful and also addictive, they may not know how drugs can affect lives. Any kind of narcotic substance has the ability to have a negative impact on you mentally and physically, as well as in your relationships and your life in general.

Some substances make you feel energetic and happy, others can make you feel confident - and for this reason you may believe that there are not any consequences to taking drugs. However, becoming addicted to a narcotic can have a major impact on your life and it is important to seek help with detox and rehab.

Why they may seem okay

At first, drugs may seem completely harmless. In fact, they may seem better than okay because of the effects that they have whilst you are high. Since drugs are chemicals, and different drugs have their own chemical structures, they can actually affect and alter the body in ways that may not be made apparent straight away.

These changes can affect the high (the period of time where the drug is in affect), the comedown (which is the time after, when the person usually feels low) and also the way that you interact with friends and family as time goes on.

Lifestyle choices

As with an addiction of any kind, major impacts on lifestyle often materialize. Drugs can damage your employment (and/or schooling) - and this can then affect you financially. You may find that you are struggling to get enough money to pay bills or buy necessities.

Funding a drug addiction can become very expensive, very quickly; especially if you are addicted to a higher class narcotic. In these cases, users can turn to undesirable activities, such as stealing and even prostitution.

Health and physical damages

Some drugs are able to affect your body and mind, too. Substances such as heroin are able to damage the liver, brain and lungs, too. Other drugs may be able to cause other problems, such as heart attacks.

An addiction could also cause you to become violent and aggressive. Some drugs (like amphetamines, for example) can increase the chance of a user acting in aggression. Some drugs can trigger psychosis, depression and several other mental illnesses, too.

Rehab is often a necessary step to take to get free from dependency, so it is always a good idea to monitor the situation if you feel that either yourself, or someone you care about, is beginning to suffer as a result of drug use.