Reasons Not to Do Drugs

Drugs have become a major problem. Just last year, according to the DEA's website, There were 29,800 arrests made by the DEA itself. That is only a small percentage of the people who deserved to be arrested. There are many reasons that you should never do drugs.

The most immediate problem is money and is the least of your worries. At the least, you can pay $20 for a piece of crack that is about the size of any letter in this article. And crack is probably the cheapest drug you can find. Ecstasy is about $5- $20 a pill, and oxycontin is $20 or more. It is easy to spend a minimum of $1,000 a day to fund a drug addiction once you begin to really get addicted.

Your health is really at risk when you do drugs. Some drugs require you to stick needles in your arm- which can result in HIV which will eventually become AIDS. When you do uppers like crack, meth, Ecstasy, etc., your blood pressure goes up and you run a higher risk of a heart attack or a stroke. Ecstasy makes you incredibly thirsty and you body temperature goes way up. You run the risk of a heat stroke. This is why many nightclubs where the drug is popular have sprinkler systems that are on all the time, to keep the party-goers cooler. Overdose is common. And the person hooked on drugs usually doesn't worry about their health. Consequentially, instances of diseases like cancer take longer to diagnose and become harder to treat or are more damaging when they do finally get treated, If they finally get treated.

The addiction itself is horrible. When you aren't doing the drugs, you are thinking about doing the drugs, and when you are doing the drugs, the only people who would ever want to be around you either just want you to share your drugs with them, or are people who are looking to sell you some more. One way or another, your screwed.

No respectable employer will hire or keep someone on who is hooked. Most addicts wind up loosing their jobs over addiction.

When you run out of money, you begin to sell everything you own for one more hit. When you have nothing left, you begin to sell everyone else's stuff too. These things are usually stolen. And suddenly you are no longer just an addict, you are a thief as well. Many addicts get caught in robbery.

If you have children, they usually become neglected. In addition to making you children's lives hell, you can also have them taken from you. Most mothers-even addicts will tell you that is their worst fear.

Just about every addict has served time in jail because of their addiction. There are several ways that addicts can be caught and go to jail on drug-related charges. You could buy from a dealer that's actually a cop, get pulled over and in a search of your car, the police find the drugs, be at a crack house when it's busted, be called on by a neighbor, etc.

Doing drugs can lead to other things, like prostitution. 99% of all modern prostitutes become that way out of a need for the money for their next fix. Many girls are forced into prostitution because of someone getting them addicted and making them do these things to pay for their drug bills.

There are many ways that a person can die as a direct consequence of addiction. Overdose and stroke are the relatively peaceful ways to go. Then there is also suicide from the depression that comes from drug use, you can be killed if you rat someone else out or their is suspission that you rated someone else out, and if you ever rip off someone, you had better watch out, because people have been killed over as little as $20.

Give this article to someone who you think may try drugs or give as an example of what could happen. If it won't deter someone from doing drugs, nothing will!