What are the symptoms of drug abuse?

Drug abuse is an act that endangers one's own health, family and even society. Some people have no resistance to drugs because they are tempted by others or are just curious. But in fact, drug abuse not only gives you a temporary pleasure of nerve stimulation, but also brings more pain. To stop this behavior, we must fundamentally understand the harm of drugs. Let's talk about the symptoms of drug abuse and the harms of drug abuse.

Symptoms of drug abuse:

When starting to take drugs, some people only feel euphoria. For those who are not yet addicted, it is easy to continue taking drugs and become addicted. Some people feel uncomfortable, manifested by symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, general fatigue, drowsiness, inattention, blurred vision, anxiety, and irritability.

1) Directly toxic to the human body: Long-term drug abuse is mainly harmful to the central nervous system, accompanied by dysfunction of other organs and pathological changes in tissues. At this time, the main symptoms of people include: mental depression, dullness, movement disorders, hallucinations, delusions, disorientation and sexual dysfunction.

(2) It causes serious damage to the human immune function.

(3) The harm of withdrawal reaction to the human body: Many people, when they have no money to continue buying drugs or taking drugs, will suddenly stop taking drugs or reduce the amount of drugs they take. They will experience serious withdrawal reactions and various complications, which often lead to death, and some may even commit suicide due to unbearable pain.

(4) Drug abuse can cause many complications:

1. Intravenous drug injection: It is the most harmful to the human body and is most likely to cause death from drug overdose. Drug addicts use unsanitary syringes to inject drugs intravenously, which may lead to infection with various diseases such as bacterial endocarditis, tetanus, sepsis, transverse myelitis, viral hepatitis, and even AIDS. Surveys show that the incidence of both intravenous drug use and AIDS is extremely high. Local symptoms of drug injection into muscle or subcutaneous area: infection, abscess, pigmentation, scar nodules, etc. may occur.

2. Taking drugs through the respiratory tract: Inhaling heated drugs into the body for a long time will cause malignant irritation to the respiratory system. Mild cases are prone to bronchitis, while moderate cases can lead to pneumonia, pulmonary cavitation, emphysema and lung cancer. Some people will experience white matter degeneration.

3. Drug abuse can cause mental disorders and psychological abnormalities: the most prominent mental disorders that people exhibit after taking drugs are hallucinations and thinking disorders. The behavioral characteristic of drug addicts is that everything revolves around drugs, and they may even lose their moral ethics for drug abuse.