Disadvantages of Drugs

         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.