Smoking,+Steroids+and+Drug+Abuse

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Drug Abuse is a huge problem in America and all over the world today. Doing drugs can affect your friends, family, and everyone that is around. Even when other people use drugs and you are around them, they can still affect people and their body just like second-hand smoking. Once someone does drugs once, they may be hooked on it for your whole life. Never do it just to seem cool.  Every day people experiment with drugs, out of curiosity and to have a good time. People may use drugs to enhance athletic performance or to ease stress, anxiety, and depression. Consuming drugs can cause problems at work, home life, school, and relationships. Common signs that occur are neglecting problems and responsibilities, using drugs under dangerous conditions, getting into legal trouble, and using drugs can cause problems in relationships(Drug Addiction and Support).

__Problems of the family __
As we all know [|drug abuse]  is an issue all around the world, but particularly at home (Drug Addiction and Support) . Drug use can turn to drug abuse and that can lead to less communication with everybody, especially your family. This can and will affect your family members and friends. Drug abuse can rip families apart, all communication could be lost between kids and parents, also the child or parent will start having different mood swings. In order to escape the addiction, your family is key in support.

__Effects on kids __
Family life can become terrifying and abusive if one or both parents are on drugs(Livestrong). One second the parent can be kind and loving and the next they can be hitting and beating people. It is very hard for the kids to understand the parents behavior(Livestrong). Over time anger and frustration will come to the child because the parents are unreliable. In some bad cases, kids blame themselves for the substance abuse, this makes them even more worried about their parents. Kids will then turn to outside assistance, such as school counselor, child agency professional or relative for support(Livestrong).

__Effects on the body __
Drug abuse affects the cardiovascular system. Drugs can increase heart rate and cause heart attacks (Livestrong). Cocaine is known to cause heart arrhythmias and deaths from cardiac arrest. Drugs that are injected damages blood vessels, causing veins to collapse (Livestrong). Inhalant drugs show that it <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drugs can control a person’s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|brain] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It can make them only focus on getting more and more drugs and this can be a problem for them at work. They can skip their job to get high or do things that they normally wouldn’t do if they were sober. Even if they do go to their job, they can still try and get high there which can still result in problems. Drugs change how a person thinks and acts and changes their performance at work. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drugs can affect a human’s body in so many different ways that some people can’t become changed from it. Once a person’s body is abused by drugs, it changes. Those changes are hard to undo and change your body back to normal. Don’t do drugs because they will ruin the life of someone and the body at the same time and could also kill the person.

__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Solutions __
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stay away from people who use drugs. If you hang around people who are involved with drugs; you are likely to become the next victim of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|drug] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> abuse. So to solve this problem stay away from people that abuse drugs. It will help you to avoid situations that involve peer pressure. If you have a friend that is doing drugs, take a stand and tell them to stop hurting themselves. Also, if you find healthy friends, you will become a healthy person as well. So if you're looking to solve a drug abuse problem, never hang out with people who do drugs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is the main solution to use for avoiding drug abuse. If someone never use drugs, they won’t get <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|addicted] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and become a victim of drug abuse. A good thing to try is never do it just to see what it feels like. If someone says to themselves “This will be a one time thing just to try it” they will keep saying that then become the next victim of drug <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|abuse] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Also, they have to think about it logically. It is illegal and can ruin your life. So if somebody is looking for a quick solution, just stay away from drugs.

__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">References __
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Family Issues in Drug Abuse." LIVESTRONG.COM. Google. Web. 11 May 2012. < <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.livestrong.com/article/90924-family-issues-drug-abuse/>.__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Drug Abuse and Addiction." : Signs, Symptoms, and Help for Drug Problems and Substance Abuse. Google. Web. 14 May 2012. < <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.helpguide.org/mental/drug_substance_abuse_addiction_signs_effects_treatment.htm>.__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Table of Contents:." Drug Addiction. Google. Web. 15 May 2012. < <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.drug-addiction-support.org/>__

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