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    Effects of Drug Addiction

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    Drug addiction has wide-ranging physical and psychological effects. Physically, it changes the brain's functioning and impacts pleasure perception by flooding the brain with dopamine and serotonin during drug use. The body and brain then adapt to expect and depend on these drug-induced highs. Drug addiction also has psychological effects like creating a cycle where stress or pain triggers drug craving, and the belief one cannot cope without the drug. Its costs include healthcare expenses, lost wages, and criminal justice system burdens.

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    Drug addiction has wide-ranging physical and psychological effects. Physically, it changes the brain's functioning and impacts pleasure perception by flooding the brain with dopamine and serotonin during drug use. The body and brain then adapt to expect and depend on these drug-induced highs. Drug addiction also has psychological effects like creating a cycle where stress or pain triggers drug craving, and the belief one cannot cope without the drug. Its costs include healthcare expenses, lost wages, and criminal justice system burdens.

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    Drug addiction has wide-ranging physical and psychological effects. Physically, it changes the brain's functioning and impacts pleasure perception by flooding the brain with dopamine and serotonin during drug use. The body and brain then adapt to expect and depend on these drug-induced highs. Drug addiction also has psychological effects like creating a cycle where stress or pain triggers drug craving, and the belief one cannot cope without the drug. Its costs include healthcare expenses, lost wages, and criminal justice system burdens.

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    Effects of Drug Addiction (physical and psychological)

    The definition of drug addiction refers to the obsessive and repeated use of
    dangerous amounts of drugs and the appearance of withdrawal symptoms when not
    using drugs. The effects of drug addiction seen, due to this compulsion, are wide-
    ranging and profound. Effects of drug addiction are felt by the addict both physically
    and psychologically. The effects are also seen in those around the addict, like family
    members.

    The effects of drug addiction also include the cost to the justice and health care
    systems. Violent behavior is most closely tied to alcohol use and alcohol abuse is
    responsible for the disability of 58.3 million people worldwide.1 It was estimated the
    effects of drug addiction cost the U.S. $245.7 billion in 1992. This number represents
    health care expenses, lost wages, prevention program costs and criminal justice
    system costs, among others.2

    Psychological Effects of Drug Addiction


    The psychological effects of drug addiction come from the reason the user is
    addicted to drugs, as well as the changes that take place in the brain once a person
    becomes a drug addict. Initially, many people start using drugs to cope with stress or
    pain (read about: what causes drug addiction) An effect of drug addiction is creation
    of a cycle where anytime the user encounters stress or pain, they feel the need to
    use the drug. This is one of the psychological effects of drug addiction involved in
    "craving" of the drug. Craving is an effect of drug addiction whereby the addict is
    obsessed with obtaining and using the drug, to the exclusion of all else. One of the
    psychological effects of addiction involved in craving is the belief the addict cannot
    function or handle life without use of the drug.

    Other psychological effects of drug addiction include:3

    1. Wild mood swings, depression, anxiety, paranoia, violence


    2. Decrease in pleasure in everyday life
    3. Complication of mental illness
    4. Hallucinations
    5. Confusion
    6. Psychological tolerance to the drug's effects creating a desire to do ever-
    increasing amounts of the drug
    7. 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:

    1. Contraction of HIV, hepatitis and other illnesses


    2. Heart rate irregularities, heart attack
    3. Respiratory problems such as lung cancer, emphysema and breathing
    problems
    4. Abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea
    5. Kidney and liver damage
    6. Seizures, stroke, brain damage
    7. Changes in appetite, body temperature and sleeping patterns

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