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Drugs/Alcohol

“Drugs, It gives you power but takes away every little thing one by one
from you”

We have been experiencing an increase the drugs/alochol consumption

worldwide and with its consequences also being acknowledged. It is
mostly the teenagers that are consuming drugs on various occassions
and each one of them having various reasonsing.
What are Drugs? It is nothing but a chronic disease that affects an
individual’s brain in many different forms. It affects everyone in
different ways. One may take a drug or consume alcohol occasionally
whereas others take it and become drug addict. Moreoever regardless
of knowing all the circumstances and consequences a person might
face but still would consume it due to its addiction. Now let’s discuss a
little about addiction and how a person gets it addiction. Addiction is a
vast word that involves different forms of addiction apart from Drugs
and Alcohol that is gambling, food, shopping and etc. It is a point where
a person has no control over their life, regardless of the triggering
mechanism they are addicted to.
What causes drug addiction? In life we come across many situation that
causes depression, anxiety and tranquility. At this stage a person is left
with no other options then to consume drugs that would give a person
a sigh of relief. There is also a possiblity that drugs consumption might
be very open in a family thus affecting the teenagers’ lifestyle
adversely. Peer pressure may aswell be one of the largest component
leading to drugs/Alcohol consumption. Drug addiction is usually made
up of 3 stages. At first you have a curiosity to try it, then u start
consuming it on daily basis, lastly it turns into dependency over the
drugs.
There are different ways a person can take drugs and all of it has
varoius effects on an individual’s lifestyle and health. At first it is
through induljing injection which has a very instant impact as the drugs
directly go into the bloodstream. Secondly its inhalation which is less
harmfull than injection. Inhalation basically is when a person is addicted
to different fragrances and the scent of it makes a person high. This is
said to be very common since a lot of people are addicted to different
odour. Above all is the scent of petrol whereas the most dangourous of
inhalation is cocaine where a person inhales it through nose and it
directly goes into the brain thus damaging the brain adversely. Lastly
comes injestion which has a much retarted effect but all these drugs
misused do affect brain in oneway or another.
Lately there has been a research conducted on drugs intake and its
effects. It has been proven that around 7 million people are suffering
from banned drug disorder. One in four deaths are caused due to illegal
drug abuse and in case if not death so will be facing many health issues.
Around 80 percent are in jail due to their offensive actions. 16 percent
of car accident are caused due to drugs intake. In bygone days, over 12
million drivers were indulged in alcohol consupltion which has led to
around 4000 drivers lethal injuries.
However there are many side effects of drugs intake such as
headaches, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, irregular heartbeat and
changes in body temperature. Few symptoms of drugs intake are as
follows: -
1. Headache: - It is a sign of stress or emotional distress. It may also
include migraine which eventually results in person to focus on
the task they are assign to do.
2. Elevated blood pressure: - With high blood pressure, many body
parts stops functioning and hence results in health issues such as
weakness. Increased blood pressure causes shortness of breath,
may also cause heart disease and eventually result in diabities.
3. Chest pain: - With incresed drug intake it causes blood vessel to
tighten up. Swealing may begin all over the body that surrounds
the heart and starts to pain at the center part of the chest.
4. Irregular heartbeat: - In this case the heartbeat maybe too fast or
too slow but on both the cases it can be a life threatning problem.
5. Changes in body temperature: - A person at start may be
exhausted for which he/she consumes drugs but later on may
notice a change is body temperature which could be interms of
sickness or strong headache.
6. Siezures: - Where a person starts getting sudden heart attack and
at this point the brain completely drains with no response to the
audienece. Isnt it a shame but true who’s to blame.
There are numerous amount of drugs that people consumes but the
strongest of them is Marijuana and at the bottom of the list is crystal
meth with least chemicals involved.
With drug intake the level of injuries also increases since in
unconscious stage we are less aware of any danger that involves car
accident, bumbing into the crowd and etc. It also increases the risk
of domestic voilence, medical issues and the biggest is risking one’s
life. As it is said Drugs gave power to step into clouds which means a
person goes into its unconscius stage where nothing is clearly visible
as a person is not in proper state of mind. “With it everything slows
down just as a person is about to drown”; it states that the effect of
any drug slowly begins and with every second passes by, an
individual is found to be proceeding towards the unconcious stage
until it completely immerse. Moving on with few symptoms of drugs
intake that is the eyes begins to shutter and at one point visiblity is
too low that you cannot even look at the person stand a centermeter
away from you.
One of the major effect of drug is on the brain as all drugs have
cocaine, nicotine, marijuana and many more which often causes
large amount of monomine that floods the brain system. This
monomine causes an elation in brain vesells which usually makes a
person high.
Drugs intake do have various impact on behaviour as mentioned
earlier. As with brain disorder it can lead to several problems for
both shorter and longer span of time. Hallucination is when the
visiblity is extremely low and a person often sees 2-3 shades of a
single thing. At this point various incident takes place as a person has
no control over one’s self. As stated that “that little fake fun just
make me go insane, I thought I would heal and relax from pain but
under the influence I harmed my own friend’-Abeera. The line is a
witness that “Yes” drugs to take away the relationships by showing
up the aggressive behaviour which eventually makes a person
completely alone.
As for the pregnant women the drug intake can be highly injurious to
themselves and to the unborn babies. This is likely to harm the fetus
with poor nutrition and various behavioral problems. Different
effects on an unborn baby could be as follows:
1. Behavioural problems
2. Baby being born too early
3. Underweight from birth
4. Learning disability
Over the period of time, gorvernment and other institutions are
taking steps inorder to reduce or prevent the drug addiction.
Different schemes have been launched which states the
consequences of drugs intake. Pakistan alone is the biggest exporter
of heroin and also a naet importer of drugs. As a survey conducted it
has been concluded that heroin consumption have increased from
7.5% in 1983 to 51% in 1993. Past 10 years there has been a drastic
increase in drug consumption. Pakistan alone is not facing these
issues, with it the US nations have started rehab center where many
drug addict would be brought and would be asked about the reason
behind their drug addiction and with that treatment to be provided
as per different cases.
Lastly in my opinion drugs consumption is all temporary since it
relives your stress for a time being but all of it has long term
consequences. As a parent it should be duty of them to be open to
their children and keep a softening voice since harsh tone may
frighten a person in sharing their problems with the elder ones.
Furthermore drugs shall be banned from a country by the
government and only be restricted to the hospital for making
medicines. With this step there will be no drug addicts in a country
and everyone stays in peace. Increased awareness also tends to be
highly effective if it is said by the ex-drug addict itself. Its true that
once you begin with drugs intake, it gets hard to resist but none the
less there are varoius opportunites that a person can adopt n be
relief from all the harm. We ourself create the condition that leads
to unhealthy lifestyle. Well that’s a fact thus the avoidence will help
a person to live his/her life to the fullest potential without being
mentally or physically unfit.
Few ways to overcome the drug addiction are as follows:
1. Changing one’s friends group.
2. Sharing issues with the elder ones
3. Considering building a sober social network
4. Hault with the old drug buddies
5. Always thinking about the future that is taking caution before
consuming any sort of drug.
6. Indulge one self in more sports activities
7. Set meaningful goals
8. Adopt a new pet that you admire the most
9. Adopt a new hobby

The End

Actual Text By: Ryan

Translation By: Lucas