The consequences of taking drugs
Taking drugs can be characterized as a voluntary intake of poison, which is what they are for the body. Like any poison, drugs cause poisoning. Drug addicts take poison all the time, so their body is in a state of chronic intoxication. In the stage of developed addiction, the effects of drugs are so noticeable, so eloquent is the very appearance of the addicted person.
Drugs are light and heavy. Both are poison, from a medical point of view, the only difference is that severe ones cause pathological changes in a shorter time. The effects of drugs are manifested in absolutely everything, there is no organ that would not suffer from poison, and there is no sphere of life - social, psychological, intimate, that would not suffer as a result of prolonged use of drugs.
All narcotic substances in one way or another are introduced into the blood stream, that is, they have a general effect. First of all, as a result of taking drugs, the organ through which the drug is injected suffers, since it more often than others comes into contact with the poison in high concentration. For heroin addicts, these are veins that “burn out”, which means they become hardened, that is, they become inflamed and overgrown. Those who use cocaine primarily suffer from the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx, which becomes thinner, becomes brittle and bleeding, prone to inflammatory processes. Those who inhale narcotic smoke (smokers of hashish, opium) are especially vulnerable to the lungs, in which chronic inflammation develops, and subsequently malignant tumors.
Then the drug enters the bloodstream, which carries it to all organs and systems. Some of them are more vulnerable, others less, but invulnerable do not exist. First of all, the nervous system suffers from the effects of drugs, because the effect of the poisonous substance is directed at it. For some time, the disturbances are reversible, then the compensatory mechanism is depleted, and the nervous system ceases to function normally. But she controls the functions of the whole organism!
Immunity, experiencing constant overload, is also depleted, and the poison continues to flow, and almost always not only in the form of a drug, but also in the form of infection. This is how secondary immunodeficiency occurs. And even if a drug addict is lucky not to become infected with HIV, he still has an immunodeficiency, albeit not of a viral nature. That is why drug addicts, at a certain stage of addiction, literally start to rot alive.
Thus, the consequences of drugs in their destructiveness exceed almost all known diseases, because both mental and physical condition of a person suffer. It is very important to understand this and take action when violations are still at a reversible stage.
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