All people take drugs in order to experience some sort of primary effect. Even mild “substances” like coffee and tea have caffeine in them (among other ingredients) that give you a stimulating effect, although they’re many leagues below the stimulation offered by “biker’s coffee” (which is either another name for meth or coffee spiked with meth or amphetamine).
Side Effects Are Mostly “Unintentional” Byproducts: However, for every opioid painkiller or cocaine high you take come an accompanying volley of side effects that the drug isn’t “supposed to deliver and, in most cases, have adverse effects to your health. This goes double to drug users who abuse or excessively binge on their drug/s of choice.
Primary Effects Vary by Method of Delivery: There are multiple ways for a person to take any type of drug, the most common of which is by swallowing a pill. On top of ingestion, illicit drugs are usually injected or inhaled to get a faster high without your digestive system impeding the process. In primary effect terms, injection makes a drug more instantaneously potent and ingestion delays its effects.
Side Effects Also Vary by Method of Delivery: What type of side effects you go through is also affected by how the drug is delivered. For example, smoking cocaine can cause lung damage, snorting cocaine can cause nosebleeds and loss of smell, swallowed cocaine can cause bowel decay, and injected cocaine increases your hepatitis and HIV risk.
All Misused Drugs Have a Significant Impact on Your Brain: All misused or abused drugs have an effect on your brain and behavior that then translates to physical side effects, damage, and complications. The most common unifying effect of drugs on the brain is substance use disorder, which is also known as drug abuse or drug addiction. Rather, drug abuse can lead to drug addiction, which then results in more drug abuse like a feedback loop.
What Is Drug Addiction, Drug Abuse, or Substance Use Disorder? Drug addiction—clinically known as substance use disorder—is the natural conclusion or progression of increasingly worsening drug abuse. Meanwhile, drug abuse is when you use drugs so much that you’ve become desensitized to normal doses, which encourages you to keep using increasingly large doses until you’ve become literally dependent on the drug to “feel normal”.
Side effects of drug addiction may include the following.
Lung Disease: Drugs like tobacco or nicotine in vapes can lead to lung issues.
Rise in Body Temperature: Drug use can lead increases in body temperature.
Hormonal Changes: Hormonal changes can lead to breast development in men.
Immunocompromised: You have a higher risk for infection and illness due to a weakened immune system.
Live Strain: There’s increased strain on your liver that can lead to organ damage or outright organ failure when push comes to shove.
Mental Issues: Drugs can cause brain damage, mental confusion, and stroke. It can also induce problems with memory, attention and decision-making, which make daily living more difficult.
Nausea and Abdominal Pain: As discussed above, nausea is a common drug abuse symptom due to how toxic the condition makes your body, leading to a vomit reflex, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and weight loss.
Heart Conditions: You can also get various cardiovascular ailments ranging from abnormal heart rates to heart attacks. You can also end up with collapse veins and blood vessel infections from all the injections you’re putting your body through.
Death: The most severe health consequence of drug abuse is death. The sharpest rise in drug-related deaths comes from heroin and synthetic opioids. Every day, more than 90 Americans end up dying due to opioid overdose. Additionally, 1 out of 4 deaths come from illicit drug abuse.
Drug - Effect of the Human Brain
Whatever complication happens to your body due to drug abuse will probably be caused first by your brain becoming addicted to drugs in the first place. With that said, what is the human brain and how does it work?
What Is the Human Brain? The human body’s most complex organ is the brain. It’s a 3-pound mass of white and gray matter that sits at the center of all human activity. It gives you a sense of identity and is needed for pursuits like creating an artistic masterpiece, enjoying a meal, driving a car, or breathing without thinking about it as well as breathing manually.
What Does the Brain Do? The brain is responsible for regulating your body’s basic functions. It also enables you to interpret and respond to everything you experience or to “external stimuli”. It also shapes how you behave. In other words, your brain is who you are. It’s your soul. Your brain experiences everything that you think and feel; your body is merely its container.
How Does The Brain Work? The brain is like a supercomputer and it’s probably many times more complex than the most powerful supercomputer in existence. Instead of silicon chips and electric circuits that controls every operation, the brain is composed of billions of brain cells known as neurons that are organized in circuit-like networks. Each neuron serves as a switch for information flows.
Every time a neuron receives enough signals from other neurons, it fires off its own signal to other neurons. This interconnected circuitry from different parts of the brain to the spinal cord and nerves from across the body—work as a team to accomplish various tasks, from coordinating your blood flow to rewarding you with a chemical known as dopamine to make you feel pleasure and euphoria when on the verge of accomplishing something.
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