Drugs and Alcohol can affect you in your daily life. They can affect you physically, and mentally, affect you in school, change your behavior, and cause future health issues.

Drugs and Alcohol can put you in things that you don’t want to be in, like jail. But you can go talk to people about it and you can text or call hotlines like 899 and tell them what you are going through. Drugs and alcohol are not something I wouldn’t do and you shouldn’t.

Physical Effects 

The physical effects of drug and alcohol use can vary from non-emergency to life-threatening situations. Some of the effects can be as small as a runny nose or drowsiness but other times, a person can end up having a heart attack or liver damage.

The common side situations are an upset stomach, dry mouth, and drowsiness. Some of the side effects are life-threatening results of death, hospitalization, disability, or permanent damage or exposure before conception during pregnancy causing birth defects.  Misusing drugs can be seriously unhealthy. Kids who drink alcohol can have increased effects like heart attack seizures and could even die.  Mixing alcohol and drugs can cause events like blackouts, poisoning, overdose, and death. Even if a teen doesn’t end up in a horrible situation like that, alcohol and drug use can still damage important organs like the brain, heart, and liver in the long run.

School 

 Drugs can cause students’ grades to drop, cause poor attendance, and increased drugs can also cause kids to drop out of school before they graduate. 

Behaviors 

Drugs and alcohol can affect your behavior. Some of the behaviors can consist of drinking and driving or unprotected sex. Alcohol and drugs affect our minds, causing kids to often participate in things they wouldn’t normally do. Alcohol can change your behavior, cause people to lie, cause mood swings, or cause an increase in aggression toward others.

Health  

Drugs and alcohol can make you not eat balanced. Your diet can make your immune system weak, causing things like colds and the flu. It can also make your heart beat faster and your body moves slower. When you do these your throat will feel dry, your pupils get bigger, and it can make you have head problems. Drugs and alcohol can interfere with your brain development which continues to mature into the early 20s. Drugs can increase your memory loss, causing difficulties with learning.   

Future Health Issues

 Drugs can affect you when you are young. When you’re an adult, health problems, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep disorders, fatigue, repeated health complaints, red and glazed eyes, and a lasting cough can come into effect.

Drugs and alcohol use are not ok, even if it’s with your so-called friends. You think that they are your friends, but they aren’t. Drugs and alcohol use in teens can have really bad effects and you could lose friends and family. Drugs and alcohol can kill us and we should value our lives more than that and think about the people that love us.