Abusing drugs can effect someone in physical and mental ways. Drugs can lead to lack of eating, loss of weight, dark eyes, teeth decaying, acne, and loss of hair. It can make the immune system weak, which causes the body to be more susceptible to diseases. They can also cause seizures, strokes and different types of brain damage, which can lead to problems with one's ability to remember, pay attention, and make decisions in his everyday life. This can result to …show more content…
Drugs can turn someone into a whole new person with the way he acts, thinks, and lives. When someone is abusing, he can become antisocial, and push people away from him so he can be alone. He can also become more aggressive, making it easy for him to get mad when someone speaks in the wrong tone, or even when someone looks at him the wrong way. If a family member is trying to help out the user, he can get aggravated easily and end up losing control of the way he acts towards someone trying to care for him. When he is looking for money for his next fix, it will cause him to do anything. The abuser will lie, steal, and hurt whoever to get what he wants. Families can fight a lot more from the problems the drug abuse is causing. When someone is addicted to drugs, he may not realize he has a problem or that he is sick, so he will not look for treatment. This can lead into making bad decisions; for example, someone can lose everything and ruin his