Drug is a substance people take to chnge the way they feel, think or behave.

It can taken through ingestion,

inhalation, injection as suppositoryor applied topically.

- Illegal Drug are substances, which an individual by law is not allowed to possess, use or distribute
- Legal Drug are drugs that an individual is allowed to have

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain and behavior. When you’re addicted to drugs, you can’t resist the
urge to use them, no matter how much harm the drugs may cause.
you may choose to take a drug because you like the way it makes you feel. You may think you can control how
much and how often you use it. But over time, drugs change how your brain works. These physical changes can
last a long time. They make you lose self-control and can lead you to damaging behaviors.

CAUSES

- stress, anxiety or depression

- Having a parent with a history of addiction.

- curiosity
- Inability to connect with others, lack of friends. Peer pressure
- Poor performance at work or school
- the thinking that “medicines” can solve problems

EFFECTS
Wild mood swings, depression, anxiety, paranoia, violence

Decrease in pleasure in everyday life

Complication of mental illness

Hallucinations

Confusion

Psychological tolerance to the drug's effects creating a desire to do ever-

increasing amounts of the drug

Desire to engage in risky behavior

Physical Effects of Drug Addiction

Physical effects of drug addiction vary by drug but are typically seen in all systems of the
body. Some of the primary physical effects of drug addiction take place in the brain. Drug
addiction changes the way the brain functions and impacts how the body perceives
pleasure. These effects of drug addiction are because the drug repeatedly floods the
brain with the chemicals dopamine and serotonin during drug use. The brain adapts and
comes to expect, and depend on, these drug-induces highs.

Physical effects of drug addiction are also seen in babies of drug abusers as well as in
mortality statistics. One effect of drug addiction is: children born to drug-using mothers
can be cognitively affected throughout life. Regarding mortality, one-in-four deaths are
due to the effects of drug addiction.4 Other physical effects of drug addiction include:

Contraction of HIV, hepatitis and other illnesses

Heart rate irregularities, heart attack

Respiratory problems such as lung cancer, emphysema and breathing problems

Abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea

Kidney and liver damage

Seizures, stroke, brain damage

Changes in appetite, body temperature and sleeping patterns