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Drug abuse is a common problem in the world today and it gets worse by the day.While some movies, music, and the social media can make the use of hard drugs appear cool, fun, and on point, there are also a lot of negative side effects attached to the use of hard drugs.

Drugs can negatively affect your relationship with people, your mental, psychological and physical health, and your life in general. Using hard drugs is a choice but while you are at it, it is important to know both the short-term and long-term effects of the drugs on your health and life in general. While some movies, music videos, and the social media can make the use of hard drugs appear cool, fun, and on point, there are also a lot of negative side effects attached to the use of hard drugs. Drugs can negatively affect your relationship with people, your mental, psychological and physical health, and your life in general. Using hard drugs is a choice but while you are at it, it is important to know both the short-term and long-term effects of the drugs on your health and life in general. In no particular order, here are top 5 hard drugs people use every day

~ HEROIN

Heroin is an opioid painkiller also prescribed as an analgesic, cough suppressant and as an antidiarrhoeal. It is also a highly addictive and an illegal drug used by millions of drug addicts around the globe. Heroin is an opiate gotten from the processed extracts of the opium poppy. It was initially created to help cure people who are addicted to morphine. When it crosses the blood-brain barrier after the introduction of the drug into the bloodstream, heroin is converted into morphine, and this mimics the effects of endorphin, creating a sense of euphoria described as an “orgasm”. One of the most common methods of using heroin is through intravenous injection.

~COCAINE

It Also known as benzoylmethylecgonine or coke, Cocaine is a strong stimulant obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It stimulates the central nervous system and also serves as an appetite suppressant, leading to what has been described as a euphoric sense of highness and increased energy. It is most often used recreationally for this effect. Cocaine is a potent central nervous system stimulant. Its effects can last from 20 minutes to several hours, depending on the dosage of drug taken, its purity, and the method used in administering it. The immediate signs of stimulation are hyperactivity, restlessness, increased heart blood pressure, increased heart rate and a feeling of happiness. The most common methods of administering cocaine are snorting, inhaling and injecting into the veins.

~METHAMPHETAMIME

It Popularly shortened to meth or ice, Methamphetamine, is a psychostimulant and sympathomimetic drug that goes into the brain and causes the brain to release norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin causing euphoria and excitement, it is a good candidate for abuse and addiction. Users of this drug may become obsessed with tasks such as cleaning things, hand-washing or arranging and rearranging objects. it is often followed by anxiety and the craving for more drugs. Withdrawal from this drug is often characterised by too much sleeping, eating and symptoms similar to depression. See Also: Nigerian Druglords Caught In The Middle Of North West Drug War

~Opium

Opium is a pitchy narcotic processed from the latex released by scoring the young seed pods of opium poppies (Papaver somniferum). This contains up to 16% morphine which is an opiate alkaloid, which is mostly produced chemically to produce heroin for illegal drug trade around the world. Opium has gradually been replaced by a variety of more purified, semi-synthetic, and synthetic opioids with moderately stronger effect, and by other regular anaesthesia. This process started in 1817 when Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner reported that pure morphine from opium should be isolated after about thirteen years of research and a nearly disastrous trial on himself and three other boys.

~MARIJUANA

Marijuana is the herbal form and a psychoactive product of the plant Cannabis sativa. Man has been consuming cannabis since prehistory but in the 20th century, there was a rise in the use of cannabis for recreational, spiritual, and also medicinal purposes. A good percentage of the world’s adult population use cannabis every day. It has a psychoactive effect when consumed and gives a sense of excessive strength and highness. The method of administration is usually by smoking or ingestion. The extent of intoxication due to cannabis consumption lies on factors such as potency, dose, chemical composition and method of consumption

EFFECTS OF USING HARD DRUGS

Hard drugs have immediate and long-term side effects on the user and the person might end up having a bad time contrary to the reason for taking the drug. Frequent use of hard drugs can cause permanent damage to the health of the user. The side effects include

~Addiction

~confusion
paranoia

~panic attacks

~nausea

~shaking

~headache

~depression

~schizophrenic and psychotic behaviour. This is close to total madness

~hostile and aggressive behavior

~Unnecessary violence, often for no particular reason

~eventual permanent damage to brain, liver, kidneys and heart.

~unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases(STD) are likely to happen when one is in a state of highness and out of control