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26 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Drugs
By Gregory Hammonds   
Rated "G" by the Author.
Last edited: Thursday, July 05, 2007
Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2007


Drug Addiction starts out as a casual, sometimes social, activity and escalates. A look at the risk before one gets too far, from one who has lived through it.

 

1.     Drugs  are stimulants and gives its user a false sense of limitless power and energy

2.     When drugs wear off, or you come down, you become depressed, edgy and craving for more

3.     Feelings of restlessness, irritability, mood swings, sleeplessness and weight loss

4.     Emotional problems

5.     Isolation from family and friends

6.     Psychosis, paranoia, anxiety, disorders and delusions

7.     Cocaine damages the inside of the nose

8.     Inflamed nasal passage

9.     Increase risk of hepatitis and HIV

10. Severe respiratory infections

11. Heart attack, chest pain, respiratory failure

12. Strokes, abdominal pain and nausea

13. A change in behavior

14.  Keeps you broke

15. Lose interest in school, family and any activities outside of getting high

16. Affects your eating habits; depending on the drug: can cause weight loss or gain

17. Become withdrawn, tired and careless about personal appearance

18. Lose  interest in holding a job

19. Tempts you to steal

20. May even tempt you to kill someone

21. The substance controls you, you do not control it

22. It is a device used to shorten your life span

23. It is poisonous and slowly kills you

24. Eats up the brain cells

25. It makes you do things that you thought you would never do

26. It steals your identity.

 


 
 

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