So, let's take a closer look at the topic: "Addiction and substance abuse: threats hidden and obvious." The first obvious threat is addiction. Such drugs cause both a physiological habit of the organism and a psychological need for detente. Psychological attachment arises from addiction to the drug. Its signs are: a constant need for increasing the dose, some emotional dependence on the drug, a strong need for the next dose. If it is not there is a kind of "breaking", with stronger types of drugs it is more pronounced, in "weaker" it can be accompanied by oppression, irritation, pain, bad mood, changes in personality. Emotional dependence expresses the relationship between the individual and his drug, and can also cause a state of affect after the dose is taken.
Addiction to such diseases as substance abuse and drug addiction can lead to another, significant result. Another clear threat, which follows from the first, is material instability, large monetary costs, bankruptcy, troubles that appear when a sick person has nothing to pay for drugs. At such times all dreams are broken, the individual can demand money from relatives, threaten relatives, sell the most expensive things in order to buy another dose. This is less common with such a disease as substance abuse, because intoxicants from this area are usually inexpensive, and a toxicoman can use household chemicals, even improvised drugs, to satisfy needs. But this carries another important threat. A toxicoma can often be recognized by its appearance, since such remedies influence it clearly - except for the bad appearance of some drug addicts, one can recognize the characteristic rash around the mouth.
In addition, both substance abuse and drug addiction, having a different character, equally contain a clear threat that after the stages of pleasure, emotional and psychological satisfaction, painful consequences occur-headache, nausea, dizziness ... A hidden threat is that in addition to All this for an individual who uses intoxicating substances, the intellect decreases, the processes of thinking are inhibited, any abilities are lost, and a person is less and less like a person as he should be-an intelligent, developed, erudir oval, intelligent.
In addition, such diseases do a lot of harm, in terms of morality, the psychology of the individual, the individuality of the patient - and this is a hidden threat. The first signs of use are manifested in one to two months. This is apathy to life, lost interest in learning and work, absenteeism starts, poor progress, a person loses his skills. Then the biological consequences of the disease result - nervousness, irritability, conflict, emotional instability. The patient's mood often changes from a deep inconsolable and tragic to, on the contrary, high, joyful, excited. Six months later - lethargy and apathy. After all, a person begins to form his system of values around the drug and its use, which can not be justified even by themselves. He sees that he has lost his way, life becomes meaningless, the previous milestones cease to matter. After all, time turns monotone - taking a dose and nothing more, everything around becomes gray and unnecessary.
Such thinking, apathy of one day can lead to suicide. In addition, slow suicide, as a threat to the individual, occurs during the entire duration of the drug use. A person kills himself and his body, the influence of drugs on him, depending on their type - is numerous. The whole body suffers, which can lead to illness and death. In addition, a more common death is an overdose. The consequence of getting used to a drug is a constant desire to increase the dose. The first, "small" cease to bring high, and therefore their number is constantly increasing, which can reach the maximum point for this organism, the consequence of which is an unexpected death, which is a hidden threat to the individual. Usually the dose is the most risky and uncontrolled factor.
In addition, death can occur not only from an overdose, but in some types of drugs and from a lack of dose. Usually a financial hardship, a lack of opportunity to get a drug are factors that provoke this risk. And not even focusing on some drugs, a person can die simply from a lack of food or other important need that may arise from an uncontrolled lifestyle and lack of material resources.
The harm to the illness is also inflicted on the family of the patient, since they suffer no less. It is always painful and psychologically difficult to watch a sick relative, in addition, the latter can become uncontrollable and harm their relatives by turning them into victims of psychological or physical violence.
Drug addiction and substance abuse carry both obvious and threatened threats, which undoubtedly affects and affects the life of the individual. A person loses morality, spirituality, himself, his personality, dreams and plans, hopes, not to mention health and appearance. He himself kills himself, compares his life with dirt, becomes addicted to chemicals and every day puts his life at risk, makes his life and his loved ones unbearable.