Effects of Teenage Drug Abuse

Thursday, 6 January 2011

• Diminished focussing capability and sapped concentration levels.
• Sooner in life drug abuse is started, greater the likelihood that he/she would be developing a substance abuse issue & increased chances of them relapsing into substance abuse when they attempt quitting.
• Youngsters using drugs have a greater likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviours, or having sexual contact with strangers.
• Substance abused could be causing or masking some emotional issues like depressive tendencies, nervousness, deliriums, depression that could lead to mortality due to suicides or homicides.
• The use of anabolic steroid can make a man/boy impotent or enlarged clitoris in a woman/girl along with balding, arrested growth, stroke, heart attack, cancers, pimples, liver condition & infection like AIDS across genders.
• All-encompassing impact to the body occurs when substance abuse occurs like lasting harm to the brain linked to use of inhalant, strokes/heart attacks due to stimulant use, arrested respiration due to sedative – which could cause mortality.