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3. Enormous Expense

Drugs are expensive even for casual use, but an addict needs to get high every week, every day or perhaps even several times per day. The costs of supporting such a habit can be astonishing. Other areas of life will suffer as most or all of the addict’s money goes to paying for the next fix, and he or she may start stealing from friends and family or fail to support loved ones. In other cases, the person is liable to resort to criminal activities to keep up the habit or might look for cheaper, and more dangerous, ways to get high.

Top 10 Reasons Not to do Drugs and What to Do Instead
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Many young people who are experimenting with drugs, as well as those who are struggling with addiction, find themselves wishing that they had never tried drugs. Drugs can, and most likely will, ruin the life of anyone who uses them for any extended period of time. What are the best reasons to avoid using drugs? Here are only a few:

1. Physical Addiction

Drugs are physically addictive. The easy way to understand this is to recognize that using drugs causes enormous disruption in the systems and biological processes of the body, especially in the chemistry of your brain. To cope with this, the body compensates by adjusting its chemistry in terms of hormones, neurotransmitters, and other substances. Taking drugs out of the equation at this point is like pulling one leg out from under a three-legged stool. The result is that the person experiences severely uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal. A drug addict will, in fact, very often not even feel like himself or herself without using drugs.

2. Emotional Addiction

People normally start using drugs as a way to solve some type of problem, such as an unhappy home life, stress at work or social pressure. This doesn’t handle the problem, it only masks it. As time goes on, the person becomes more and more dependent on the drug as a coping mechanism and a way out. A person reaches a point where he or she has to get high to face an uncomfortable social situation, to perform at work or even merely to make it through the day.

3. Enormous Expense

Drugs are expensive even for casual use, but an addict needs to get high every week, every day or perhaps even several times per day. The costs of supporting such a habit can be astonishing. Other areas of life will suffer as most or all of the addict’s money goes to paying for the next fix, and he or she may start stealing from friends and family or fail to support loved ones. In other cases, the person is liable to resort to criminal activities to keep up the habit or might look for cheaper, and more dangerous, ways to get high.

REASON #2 TO SAY NO

2. Emotional Addiction

People normally start using drugs as a way to solve some type of problem, such as an unhappy home life, stress at work or social pressure. This doesn’t handle the problem, it only masks it. As time goes on, the person becomes more and more dependent on the drug as a coping mechanism and a way out. A person reaches a point where he or she has to get high to face an uncomfortable social situation, to perform at work or even merely to make it through the day.

Top 10 Reasons Not to do Drugs and What to Do Instead
friends hanging out together
Many young people who are experimenting with drugs, as well as those who are struggling with addiction, find themselves wishing that they had never tried drugs. Drugs can, and most likely will, ruin the life of anyone who uses them for any extended period of time. What are the best reasons to avoid using drugs? Here are only a few:

1. Physical Addiction

Drugs are physically addictive. The easy way to understand this is to recognize that using drugs causes enormous disruption in the systems and biological processes of the body, especially in the chemistry of your brain. To cope with this, the body compensates by adjusting its chemistry in terms of hormones, neurotransmitters, and other substances. Taking drugs out of the equation at this point is like pulling one leg out from under a three-legged stool. The result is that the person experiences severely uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal. A drug addict will, in fact, very often not even feel like himself or herself without using drugs.

Why we wana say NO!!!

Physical harms from drug use

Drug use can affect short- and long-term health outcomes. Some of these health outcomes can be serious, and possibly irreversible.
Drug use can lead to risky or out of character behaviour. When affected by drugs:

You are more likely to have an accident (at home, in a car, or wherever you are).
You may be vulnerable to s*xual assault or you may engage in unprotected s*x. Either of these could lead to pregnancy and s*xually transmitted infection.
You could commit a s*xual assault or other violent act.
You may find it hard to sleep, think, reason, remember and solve problems.
Drug use can also result in long-term health outcomes that include:
harm to organs and systems in your body, such as your throat, stomach, lungs, liver, pancreas, heart, brain, nervous system
cancer (such as lung cancer from inhaling drugs)
infectious disease, from shared injecting equipment and increased incidence of risk-taking behaviors
harm to your baby, if you are pregnant
acne, or skin lesions if the drug you are taking causes you to pick or scratch at your skin
needle marks and collapsed veins, if you inject regularly
baldness
male pattern hair growth in women, such as facial hair
jaw and teeth issues due to clenching and grinding your teeth; or bad breath, teeth cavities and gum disease
mood swings and erratic behavior
addiction
psychosis (losing touch with reality)
accidental overdose
higher risk of mental illness, depression, su***de and death.

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Written By: Corinne O'Keefe Osborne, MS
ARTICLE SUMMARY
Understanding Addiction
How to Avoid Contributing to the Problem
Confronting the Issue with Care
Take Care of Yourself
Many family members feel helpless in the face of addiction. Watching someone you love harm themselves with drugs or alcohol can be incredibly painful, as can watching a loved one’s addiction negatively impact your children, parents, or partner.

Drug and alcohol addiction touches millions of American families every day. In 2015, about 20.8 million people over the age of 12 had a substance use disorder (SUD), 15.7 million of them struggled with alcohol abuse, and 7.7 million people were addicted to drugs.1 Yet, of all these people, less than 11% of them received treatment, which is the most direct path to long-term sobriety.1

Getting your loved one into treatment is probably your goal, but how can you help an addict or alcoholic family member choose to enter rehab? Keep reading to learn how you can support your family member in their recovery.

UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION

Learning about addiction can be an important first step toward helping you better understand what your family member is going through, but perhaps more importantly, it may prepare you for the road ahead. Depending on your family structure and your relationship to the addicted person, you may have different questions, such as, “How do I know if my loved one is really addicted?” Fortunately, there are many resources that outline the signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol addiction.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is an excellent educational resource that provides information about the science of addiction, including why it is so difficult for some people to stop using on their own. You can learn how drug and alcohol abuse causes changes in the brain, as well as what cutting-edge treatment models are used.

Al-Anon and Nar-Anon are two other resources that can be helpful to those who have alcoholic or drug-addicted family members. These organizations run groups that offer emotional support from people who are in situations like your own. You can also learn from long-time members who have been where you are now about how to cope with what your family is going through. These groups are free to attend and open to everyone.

Learning as much as you can about possible treatment options can help you feel more confident about talking with your loved one. You can get ahead of the game by researching how treatment programs differ, what they specialize in, how much they cost, and what your family member’s insurance plan will cover. All substance abuse programs involve some type of behavioral therapy or counseling, but some specialize in co-occurring disorders as well, which is the presence of both a drug or alcohol addiction and a mental health disorder (like depression or anxiety).

Co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders are more common than you might think, with approximately 2.3 million people reporting having them in 2015.1 So it may be possible that your family member also struggles with a mental health disorder since those with substance abuse problems are more than twice as likely to have one.1

One reason this might be true is that people with depression, anxiety, or PTSD sometimes turn to drugs and alcohol to self-medicate their symptoms. Drinking and drug use may temporarily relieve symptoms of their mental health problem, but over time, they can actually make the condition worse.

It’s especially important to find competent dual diagnosis treatment since simply treating one condition without treating the other is often ineffective in the long term. Locating an experienced treatment professional to perform a comprehensive assessment is a good first step in helping your loved one get the help they need.

HOW TO AVOID CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROBLEM

It can be hard to admit to yourself that someone you love has a serious problem. If you are the parent of a teenage or adult child whom you suspect might be drinking or using drugs, you might enable such continued behavior simply in being hesitant to confront them about it. group of people putting hands together But denial or avoidance are not effective ways to handle addiction—both are a form of enabling. This means that you do things, consciously or subconsciously, that allow them to continue using. It is particularly common among parents and partners of substance abusers. You might enable your family member for several reasons, including denial, hopelessness, and frustration. Ultimately though, you enable someone because you love them and you want to ease their pain. Unfortunately, the end result is generally more pain since they haven’t moved out of their addiction.2

Enabling takes different forms depending on the age of the substance abuser, their role in the family system, and the makeup of the family. When a family member is struggling with an addiction, the whole family unwittingly adapts to make room for it.2

If the substance abuser is your co-parent, you may have subconsciously taken on all of the parental responsibilities—including housework, transportation, and income generation. If you are the parent of a teenager or a young adult with addiction, then you may have changed your behavior toward your child, for example, tiptoeing around the house to avoid conflict or no longer expecting good grades.

Sometimes, for an addict to get sober, the whole family needs to make changes. This could include adjusting responsibilities, attitudes, expectations, finances, and communication.2 Additionally, the impact of addiction usually stretches beyond the immediate family unit and often includes extended family, neighbors, coworkers, and friends. Friends and family are frequently asked for financial assistance or housing, and coworkers carry a disproportionate amount of the workload.

Here are a few practical tips to avoid enabling behavior:2

Don’t indiscriminately give them money. Consider withholding:
Rent money.
Cell phones.
Credit cards.
Car or car insurance payments.
Money for groceries.
Tell them they can earn back privileges if they go to treatment (provide incentives).
Don’t let them drive your car.
Don’t tolerate excuses, and don’t make excuses for them (e.g., “He had a bad week”).
Stop saving your loved one when they get in trouble; allow them to experience the natural consequences of their actions.
Don’t bail them out if they are arrested.
Don’t give them more of their substance of choice when they are in withdrawal because it’s hard for you to watch them suffer.
Set healthy boundaries and limits (e.g., no alcohol or drug use in the house).
Talk to your extended network of family and friends and tell them not to provide assistance.

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The Full Picture of Substance Abuse Costs
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, addiction and substance abuse costs the United States more than $600 billion annually. This is true for a combination of reasons:

Those who abuse drugs are more likely to commit crimes, costing the nation money. In addition, drug related crimes make up 60 percent of the individuals in federal prison, according to the NIDA Archives.
31 percent of the homeless population of America suffers from a substance abuse disorder.
The health care costs for those who abuse drugs continue to climb higher and higher. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, health care costs have increased from $10.7 billion in 1992 to $15.8 billion just 10 years later.
Other costs include

Treating children born with dependencies on drugs their parent abused while pregnant
Accidents caused by substance abuse
Individuals who miss work due to substance abuse, resulting in a loss of productivity
Comorbidity associated with substance abuse that can cause additional disorders and require dual diagnosis treatment
As you can see, there are many costs that a person who begins using drugs can and may eventually pass on to the rest of society. This is a serious issue many people are not able to see in its full scope.

Image of the brain's reward circuit.
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The brain's reward circuit
What happens to the brain when a person takes drugs?

Most drugs affect the brain's "reward circuit" by flooding it with the chemical messenger dopamine. This reward system controls the body's ability to feel pleasure and motivates a person to repeat behaviors needed to thrive, such as eating and spending time with loved ones. This overstimulation of the reward circuit causes the intensely pleasurable "high" that can lead people to take a drug again and again.

As a person continues to use drugs, the brain adjusts to the excess dopamine by making less of it and/or reducing the ability of cells in the reward circuit to respond to it. This reduces the high that the person feels compared to the high they felt when first taking the drug—an effect known as tolerance. They might take more of the drug, trying to achieve the same dopamine high. It can also cause them to get less pleasure from other things they once enjoyed, like food or social activities.

Long-term use also causes changes in other brain chemical systems and circuits as well, affecting functions that include:

learning
judgment
decision-making
stress
memory
behavior
Despite being aware of these harmful outcomes, many people who use drugs continue to take them, which is the nature of addiction.

What Is drug addiction?

Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences. The initial decision to take drugs is voluntary for most people, but repeated drug use can lead to brain changes that challenge an addicted person’s self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs. These brain changes can be persistent, which is why drug addiction is considered a "relapsing" disease—people in recovery from drug use disorders are at increased risk for returning to drug use even after years of not taking the drug.

It's common for a person to relapse, but relapse doesn't mean that treatment doesn’t work. As with other chronic health conditions, treatment should be ongoing and should be adjusted based on how the patient responds. Treatment plans need to be reviewed often and modified to fit the patient’s changing needs.

The issue of substance abuse has well become more of plague and it has taken root in our society. None of us is completely safe from it's effect. After all it has taken hold of most of our youth today.
Please lets join hands to fight it before its too late