Behavioral Therapy : Illicit drugs will be abused either for short-term or long-term which will cause irrevocable effects on your health, particularly on your mental health. In a few cases, they may also lead to fatalities. Hence, these are banned from being cultivated, marketed and abused in the society.
Look at few reasons why people fall prey to drugs and what are the short-term and long-term negative effects of these drugs on the mind. There are more than one reason why people fall prey to drugs. While few are related to environmental and psychological conditions of individuals, the others are related to the inherent addictive characteristics of the drug itself.
- Experimenting/recreation - Experimenting is the most common reason why people get started with drugs. Drugs are often used for recreation to get a sense of well-being/high.
- Enhance functionality - Certain professionals involved in physical activities, like sports are likely to take drugs because they are said to increase physical strength. Steroids and amphetamines are examples of this group.
- Stress - Battered by stressful situations including drug abuse, work pressure, academic failure, or issues in relationship, people take drugs. Also, people suffering from depression are more likely to take drugs to apparently escape from the situations.
- Peer pressure - Peer pressure is another important factor. A person of any age/gender can confront peer pressure in various situations.
- Accessibility - Further, easy accessibility is also a critical factor. This is because, once an individual decides to use drugs be for experimenting, recreation, or any other factor, unless the drug is available easily he may not be inclined to take drugs.
- Genealogy - Few studies have suggested that genetic causes may also be responsible to create a feeling of compulsive inclination to drugs in humans.
Some drugs like heroine cause addiction even with a single intake. Further, prescription drugs also lead to addiction as they are taken continuously for quite some time.
How drugs impact your brain?
The effects of almost all illicit drugs are psychotropic - they affect you by influencing your mental condition. The drugs alter your mood by affecting the physiology of your brain. They disturb the normal response of the brain. As brain is the vital organ that directs all the other organs in the body, the normal functions of different organs in the body also get affected.
- Further, the effects of illicit drugs also depend on the type of drugs abused - stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens.
- Examples of stimulants include methamphetamine, ephedrine, and MDMA. These drugs increase temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. They give a feeling of being more aware and alert.
- Depressants, as the name suggests, depress reactions in your brain. Opiates, cannabis and barbiturates belong to this group.
- Hallucinogens cause the feeling of surrealism in the abusers. LSD is an example of this group.
The effects of drugs will vary by depending on how frequently one uses them. Frequent use makes the person get addicted to drugs, thereby, aggravating its ill-effects. Thus, there are distinct short-term and long-term negative effects of drug. Let us discuss each.
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