The negative effect Drug or Substance abuse has on the Society at large can not be over emphasized.
What is Drug/Substance?
a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being
According to Dictionary.com
It is a menace among both the young and old irrespective of gender. It will surprisingly shock you when you see a woman as old as in her early fifties consuming hard drugs. In Very few among these age grade or victim of substance consumption are not aware of the looming danger the drugs have on them. Some of them go as far as losing their mind control and at that point they can do and undone anything. The serial killers are found to be victims of drugs consumption over the time and the effect of the consumption led them to their present condition. This is because of the effect it has on the victim's mental health as well as the social wellbeing.
The negative effect drug abuse poses to the users are thus; depression, respiratory collapse, trauma as well as death, in some chronic state some have partial mental illness or complete lost of brain cell
Usually these victims started out as experimental user, maybe introduced to it by a friend, likes the way her body reacted to it and then gives it a second and a third shot.
This is how the cascade of reaction starts till he/she will graduate to the level of an addict. Someone who cannot control his/her drug intake or consumption is known to be an addict. Though the individual might get the false feeling of being high but it will get to a point the body system will no longer be able to accommodate more and this may lead them into depression with suicidal thoughts.
Also, victims of drug abuse lacks social values. They are mostly violent and can go at any length to get the substance.
Most rape cases reported in the last few years involved drug addict or use of substance on their victim.
• The way out of this is sensitization, there should be awareness program on the risk attached to substance abuse.
• Establishment of Rehabilitation centres to house victims of drug abuse should also be considered.
• Stigmatization by the Society need also to be addressed. People should show them love and give them listening ears. People like this need shoulders to lean on.