Drug Abuse and Pregnancy – Things You Need to Know!

Pregnancy can be one of the happiest moments in a woman’s life. Protecting the miracle of life growing inside is of utmost importance. The unborn child is at the mercy of the mother and environment around him.

Unfortunately some women fall prey to drug abuse. This poses serious risks not only to the mother herself, but to her unborn child.

The use of drugs during pregnancy has an effect on the baby because the medications and drugs travel through her bloodstream and pass through the placental barrier. These drugs have side effects that include birth defects, prematurity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), damage to the neurological system, low birth weight and other developmental disabilities following birth.

Not only do the drugs have a negative effect on child but mothers who abuse their body using drugs often run the risk of poor nutrition which not only starves her body of necessary nutrition but it also starves her unborn child of nutrients as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Drug Abuse and Its Biological, Emotional, and Psychological Effects

Drug abuse has now become a worldwide epidemic that can affect people from all cultures and socioeconomic statuses. Frequently, those who abuse drugs began to dabble in them out of sheer curiosity while others started in order to socially “fit in.” But as they continued to use the drug or drugs of their choice, the occasional participation became a regular habit they could no longer control. When the drugs became habitual, their tolerance levels began to increasing, requiring them to consume more in order to maintain the level of “high” their bodies and minds were used to.

Those who abuse drugs will develop biological, emotional, and psychological addictions. When these people attempt to seek the appropriate help, their drug addiction has usually altered their entire state of being. And because of the various negative changes experienced by the body, drug abusers find it increasingly difficult to keep their drug urges under control and can no longer ignore them.

In most cases, drug abusers will undergo a variety of biological changes due to their uncontrollable drug use, which results in abusers experiences drastic bodily changes shortly after developing an addiction. A few common changes include memory impairment, weight gain or loss, personality changes, mood changes, onset of chronic diseases, and even impairment or loss of gross motor skills. Read the rest of this entry »

The Dangers of Drug Abuse in Our Societies

Drug abuse has become a matter of constant discussion on the radio, television and in the daily newspapers recently. The menace of drug abuse in our country has reached a frightening proportion and it has pervaded every sector of our society. Drugs, which are made from medical substance formulated by pharmacists for the cure of persons’ ailments, is used wrongly and abused by people across the social strata. A lot of people just walk across to the nearby chemist to their houses to buy drugs which are not prescribed for them by a pharmacist or a doctor, they abusing the drugs.

There are lots of dangers in drug abuse. In fact, many families have endangered the live of their parents, out of self medication. There are cases of many small children who lost their lives simply because their parents, out of administered such drugs on their children. In our society nowadays, it is common to see young children with one deformity or the other. This is so because many pregnant women abuse drugs easily. They simply buy drugs and use them without doctors’ prescription during pregnancy. The resultant effect of this ignorant act is that most babies are born with one deformity or the other. Read the rest of this entry »