The Cause And Effects Of Drug Abuse

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Drug abuse is the use of illegal drugs for non-medical purpose, which is common in many counties. Taking drugs as medication can serve its corresponding effect. When people overuse it, its abuse arise a social problem. Every year billions of dollars is spent to prevent drugs use, treat who takes drugs and fight with drug trafficking. Most of government is trying to fight the devil who kills 10000 people and deviates our youth from good life. According to UN World Drug Report (2007), some 200 million people (4.8% of the world's population aged 15-64) use illegal drugs annually with 25 million being classified as problem users. Drug misuse, indeed, has becoming a serious public health problem that affects every country. This essay does study…show more content…
It is not sufficient reason to lead to physical addiction. Some drugs like heroin usually easy to cause addiction as a reason just for experimentation only. In order to get relief, people who have conditions have to take prescription drugs, finally it turns they to become addictions. Then, there was another reason that use of drugs improved performance, elite athletes sometimes accept to use it. They abused the gold medal, and made the competition unfair. More importantly, drug misuse can disrupt family life, the whole family, out of love or fear consequences, enable to supply money. Eventually, the unscrupulous drug traffickers 1030700047 drug abuse 3 get all of money from them. The trade of drugs is illegal, therefore it gives birth to illegal activities in direction of pursuing economic interests. Teenagers are most vulnerable to do this and tempted by easy money. And then, they are forced to join to gang violence and work for illegal activities. If ignore the effect of drug misuse, it will be a snowball effect and finally hard to control by
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