In movies, music, and shows, drug and alcohol abusing is shown a pretty lavish, fun, or glamorous way to live a cool lifestyle. Of course, it is that attractive path for youths that allure everyone in any other phase of life. Its way of making you feel that you are not a part of this misery, painful and challenging world is sure to make it worthy to have. The effect of drugs that let you forgets your pains and dilemmas and makes you enter into another world appeals every youth.
But, is it really worth to step into the world of drug abusing at the cost of your life? Do you really want to enjoy momentary happiness by losing your life, health, education, family and friends?
Taking drugs or alcohol can make you famous and cool around your college friends, who are using drugs. When you start taking them, you think that there is no negative impact and consequence. It seems to you harmless to testing different drugs.
But, before going to that path, you should know the effects of this cool lifestyle that appeals you every time. This cool and stylish lifestyle comes with immediate as well as long-term adverse effects to your body, brain, and life.
Body: You can start losing your physical health, structure and well-being. When you are high, you start doing bad or illegal things that you normally don’t like to do. This enhances the chances of getting hurt, accidents, falling, etc. You can be violent that leads to serious injury. Some drugs tend to damage your visceral and internal organs. From liver, stomach, lungs, throat to kidney, you can lose everything. Sharing needles to take drugs can easily put you at the major risk for getting varied diseases from Hepatitis to HIV.
Brain: Drug abuse can trigger stress as well as mental illness. It can alter your mood and thinking ability when you are high. You start feeling low, depressed, forget things, sleeplessness, etc. In addition, you can also suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia.
Life: Abusing drugs and alcohol does not only impact your body and brain, but also spoils your life. When drug becomes the prime part of your life, your relationships start losing their importance. Conflict, breakups, fights, divorces, as well as breakdowns in communication are very common. You lose your studies, career and job by not focusing on your responsibilities. It affects your financial status that puts you into peer pressures and pushes you towards doing illegal activities.
Drug and alcohol use is a choice! This is your life, so choose carefully between the so called “Cool and Virtual Lifestyle” and “Your Real Life”!
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