Drug popularly can be referred to as various chemical substances medically utilized;to suppress, get ride or cure diseases, ailments or illness in the body. Drug is also well known as any chemical substance that medically made for taking into the human body or to be applied externally in other to
gain health from being ill. When you feel not fine, it is expected of you to use drug in line with your doctor's recommendation, else, it becomes drug abuse.
Drug abuse occurs when injecting drugs without consulting doctor for checkup and prescriptions. Drug abuse also takes forms of smoking, injecting yourself to make you feel powerful in such a way that you can work relentlessly; to feel excited or happy, when it becomes habitual or you being addicted with it.
The Problems of Drug Abuse
The indiscriminate apply of drug in wrong manner issues a lot of problems in the body. It can have negative effects like mental illness or imbalance, especially when taking drugs like heroine, Indian hemp, cocaine, marijuana, or nicotine.
There are many people on our various streets and other places suffering from the insanity; not all of them develop this due to attack from spiritual realm or from witchcraft but due to their carelessness, or indiscriminate use of drugs while taking more than recommended doses is also part of it. Their aim is that, using drug will give them extra strength. Some even apply drugs in forms of doses or injection to boost their sport activities. Most of the people practicing this act do so to achieve improper aim.
Another effect of indiscriminate use of drugs is death. Many people today have parted from their happy home to the land of dead as a result of abuse in use of drugs. These drugs go against the inner parts of the body system such as kidneys, lungs, heart, livers, and others but when injecting the drugs, it will be like fun or enjoyment but it is internally destroying body system gradually until it will result into death. The death may come in when there is no more protection from the immune system against infections when the immune becomes weak or when the function of liver is getting failed because the drug abuse make liver works so harder, which is wrong.
Liver damage can be issued out of this act. This kind of condition can result into death. As a result of drug abuse, there is continuous body change, that is, wrong improvement in men breast, losing of appetite, and high body temperature. All these are symbols of health failure.
For pregnant women engaging in drug abuse, they are putting their fetus at risk. It is dangerous to the health of the babies they are carrying and if care is not taken, it will become problem later.
Lastly but not the least, drug abuse causes problem to the functions of brain, apart from being insane. The recalcitrant use of drugs may cause loss of memories and self-control in such a way that it will affect other people around you and the community at large.
It is highly advisable for everyone to abstain from the drug abuse for individual benefits and to improve standard of our dearest nation.