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The Impact of Drugs on Physical Health
Drug abuse can have a serious, life-changing impact on your child: their physical and mental health is at stake. Here’s where you’ll learn more about the health consequences that drug abuse has on your teen.
Physical Health
Drug abuse can adversely affect every major system in the human body.
Teens who abuse drugs may engage in behavior that places them at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases. This may happen because they are injecting drugs and sharing used needles, or because of poor judgment and impulse control while experiencing the effects of mood-altering drugs, making them more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors.
Mental Health
Mental health problems such as depression, developmental lags, apathy, withdrawal, and other psychosocial dysfunctions frequently are linked to substance abuse among adolescents. Substance-abusing youth are at higher risk than nonusers for mental health problems, including depression; conduct problems, personality disorders, suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide, and suicide. Marijuana use, which is prevalent among youth, has been shown to interfere with short-term memory, learning, and psychomotor skills.
Hope This has helped
~Adan
Drug's can affect your health in many way's. The effect of drug's vary for different people. Taking drug's can have an impact your physical and psychological health, which can have a short term or an long term effect on your health.
Here are some effect's drug's can have on your physical and psychological health:
1) Loss of baby during pregnancy.
2) Infant with abnormalities such as a clef pallet.
3) Violence. People who take drug's may become violent, which may cause fighting with other people.
4) Sleep. Taking drug's may effect that person's sleep pattern.
Those are some of the few effect's of drug's that have an effect on a conusmer.
I hope this help's!
-LizzyIsTheQueen
