Drug Abuse Hurts Your Health
Drug abuse can hurt all parts of your body and cause health problems that don't go away.
Drug abuse, including smoking, can lead to diseases that can kill you, such as:
- Heart disease
- Stroke (brain injury from a blood clot)
- Cancer
- HIV/AIDS
- Hepatitis (a liver disease)
- Lung disease
A person high on drugs is more likely to have accidents while driving, at work, at home, at parties—anywhere.
Drug abuse can make people angry and violent. They can hurt themselves as well as other people.
Drug abuse can make people with depression feel worse—sometimes so bad that they want to kill themselves.
Drug overdoses can kill people.
"I needed heroin
just to get by."
Deon was addicted to heroin. Here, he describes the drug's effects on his life.(Photo information)