Do
you know about drugs? Drugs are addictive substance. Drugs have a
negative impact for the people who use them. The human body is simply not
designed to endure all the things that drugs do to it.
The types of such drugs
are coccaine, methamphetamine, marijuana,
and heroin. In Indonesia, many drugs dealers sell drugs illegally. Various ways
to do like that, for example, use the small fisherman boat to
catch fish in the sea, while the drug dealers smuggle the drugs in the fish. Many
drug dealers are not
only arrested and sent
into prison but also they get punished because of their behaviour. They do it like
that because they want to get much money with a simple way althought they know the
dangers of drugs to those who consume them.
Most of
drug users are teenagers and young adults aged 15 to 20. How teenagers could be
comsuming drugs? The teenagers have a sense of curiosity and just want to try
but they are dependent of illegal
goods. Not only men but also many women get addicted to drugs. Drugs have side
effects on
continuous consumption
and can be addictive. All drugs, however, have negative side effects, and the person
abusing drugs or addicted to drugs will get the negative impact
such as health damage and mental disorders.
Almost all drugs can have a negative physical impact on health. Not only declining health in the body of the
user, but also the physical condition weakened. Most drug addicts ending with a
leak heart valve, a perforated lung, kidney failure, liver damaged, impaired
blood circulation, nervous system disorders, and brain damage causing impaired
learning ability. Whereas for the physical condition of the user usually their
weight dropped drastically, decreased appetite, pale face, pale lips because
they use long-term of drugs. Not only that, the physical damage from virus
infection is very common among injection drug users. For drug users through hypodermic
needle, especially for use the hypodermic needles in turn, the risk is
contracting diseases such as hepatitis B, C, and HIV, which until now there is
no medicine to cure. Drug user can cause bad condition when over dose of drug
consumption exceeds the body's ability to accept and can lead to death.
Beside drugs have a
negative physical impact on health, the drugs also affect the mental from the
user. Mental disorder is usually causes depression. Effects of depression to
drug users can be caused by criticism their family, friends and community or
failure in trying to stop using drugs. Not only depression but also drug users
become hallucinating excessively which reproved or scolded, they become very
sensitive because their emotional unstable and encourage them to act
arbitrarily causing disadvantage to the user and others. For example, when
desire drugs became more important than anything else, it will destroy family
relationships and friendships with a various ways such as selling valuables to
buy drugs, always take the opportunity to steal money either at home or at
school, tell lying to their friends and family, they may even threaten to kill
just to get money. If drug users do not get
'something' that they want, they become irritable and depressed then they hurt
themselves, even to suicide just because illegal goods.
From some of
the statement, drugs also have a big impact for the environment, which causes
the user feel isolated and acts as an anti-social individual. For instance, no
longer trusted by others as most drug addicts will lie and commit a crime, lost
learning opportunities and may be drop out from school or college, damage the
family name and it make their family an embarrassed, sadly, disappointed that
caused mess in the family. It makes users more likely to spend time alone and be
excommunicated because of their daydream
and be dissociated by the family and the environment. That the situation make
them shamed, depressed, stress, and even be alone because the users thinks has
a bleak future and no one cares anymore about them. In addition, the impact of
drugs on the environment can also interfere with their should do activities,
such as learning in school, talking with parents, playing and socializing with
friends.
In conclusion, the drugs are not good for the users and the drugs have a negative effect, because the drug contains chemicals
that caused affect on health. Not only declining health in the body of the
user, but also cause a the brain system disorder that makes users depressed or
stressed, and could lead to death, and also the user’s social relationship
becomes distant each other in the environment. It makes user feel isolated and
acts as an anti-social individual who makes them alone. Of course, parents are important to play role in this situation by monitoring their routine daily
activities and good communication with them. “Prevention is better than cure”
is really proven in the case of the use of illegal drugs.
