Drug abuse and it's effects.

Drug abuse is the excessive use of drugs.i.e alcohol,pain reliever or illegal drugs(weed, marijuana.e.t.c).

These days most teenagers and youths derive joy in taking drugs.

Due to lack of parental guidance some teenagers tend to join some peers of their age range and are being lured into doing things that are bad and illegal, whereby they are being lured into taking drugs.

In that case they tend to develop more interest in going deep in the drug cycle.

Drug abuse has it's bad effect on people who abuse drugs. The effects are as follows:-

• Mental confusion:- people who abuse drugs tend to go though mental disorder or confusion. They find it difficult to think straight and therefore tend to forget things easily. Drug abuse affects their thinking ability, which therefore leads to brain blackout.

• Red pulpy eyes:- People who abuse drugs tend to have red pulpy eyes. The drugs as well affects their retina, which at the end affects their eye sight.

• Lung cancer:- People who abuse drugs tend to suffer from serious lung cancer, which could lead to the death of the person.

  Drugs like:- Weed, Colorado, Marijuana, Arizona. People smoke this drugs and the smoke tends to make their lungs black which therefore leads to lung cancer.

• Leukemia

• Stroke

• Seizures

• Insomnia.e.t.c.

  These are the effects of drug abuse.

Reasons why people especially teenagers and youths tend to become victims of drug abuse are:-

*Peer pressure

*Lack of parental care

*Lack of love and support from family.

*Sexual urge

*To gain power .e.t.c

Ways where by drug abuse can be controlled:-

*Parents should show love and care to their children while growing.

*Parents should monitor their children ways of spending money.

*Parents should know the kind of friends their children move with.

*Teachers should monitor their students movement as they grow

*Government should ban use of illegal drugs by the citizens.

*Pharmacists should mind the kind of drugs that are being sold to teenagers and reasons they buy them.

Drug abuse is very bad and is affecting the country negatively. It needs to stop.