Why should you avoid drugs?

 Why should you avoid drugs?

Drug Addiction starts out as a casual, sometimes social, activity and escalates. A look at the risk before one gets too far, from one who has lived through it. 

1. Drugs are stimulants and gives its user a false sense of limitless power and energy 

2. When drugs wear off, or you come down, you become depressed, edgy and craving for more 

3. Feelings of restlessness, irritability, mood swings, sleeplessness and weight loss 

4. Emotional problems 

5. Isolation from family and friends 

6. psychosis, paranoia, anxiety, disorders and delusions 

7. Cocaine damages the inside of the nose 

8. Inflamed nasal passage 

9. Increase risk of hepatitis and HIV 

10. Severe respiratory infections 

11. Heart attack, chest pain, respiratory failure 

12. Strokes, abdominal pain and nausea 

13. A change in behavior 

14. Keeps you broke 

15. Lose interest in school, family and any activities outside of getting high 

16. Affects your eating habits; depending on the drug: can cause weight loss or gain 

17. Become withdrawn, tired and careless about personal appearance 

18. Lose interest in holding a job 

19. Tempts you to steal 

20. May even tempt you to kill someone 

21. The substance controls you, you do not control it 

22. It is a device used to shorten your life span 

23. It is poisonous and slowly kills you 

24. Eats up the brain cells 

25. It makes you do things that you thought you would never do 

26. It steals your identity.