How Drug Overdose Affects People

I met a troubled woman and she explained why she felt that way. I did not understand why she behaved in such a manner, and often she looked unhappy and confused. After observations, I discovered her problems with a drug-addicted son.

It was sad to see or know of someone in this way. The problem started after her son married a woman with the same drug addiction problem.

The couple divorced and still, the guy continued his addiction. He has a mind of his own, though did not have the will to stop the addiction. His entire body was affected badly by drugs.

He would take whatever he could find, even over-the-counter drugs if Cocaine was not available Heroin. It went on for years and at the age of twenty-eight, he died in his latter stages.

He stopped using drugs and tried to live normally with his family until one morning he never woke up.

The mother was devastated and she could not help him anymore, the end came, and she could not bear to see her son lie motionless on his bed. Something no parent would want to experience.

There comes a time when it all passes by and with so much pain, the mother had to now heal from the inside to carry on without her son. Taking medications to fulfil the need of the actual drug like cocaine causes many effects on this person's body.

The signs to look for in an individual addicted to drugs are as follows:

• With the rise in blood pressure, the temperature increases and decreases rapidly in the pulse rate. and respiratory rate also increases and decreases.
• Sometimes these signs are not seen or are just absent.
• It can be very dangerous to one's life.
• If the individual feels sleepiness, drowsiness, or they don't feel a good feeling, sometimes one can end up in a coma.
• When one breathes vomit into their lungs this can be another dangerous sign to look out for when an individual is behaving strangely.
• The person feels sweaty or hot and at times dryness of the skin.
• Chest pains are another problem that is shown this is if the heart or lung is damaged. The breathing of the individual can be slow or shallow even rapid and deep.
• One can feel ill in their tummy causing the feeling of nausea, diarrhoea or that feeling of vomiting.

When there is blood in their bowels this is among the extremely dangerous sign. Drugs damage the organs when taken for very long periods and that is exactly what happened to this twenty-eight-year-old.

His body had enough of all the drugs he used over the years.

Using a drug for a certain purpose is helpful but if you abuse it health issues start to show and disrupt normal lives allowing bad symptoms to show up.

How Drug Overdose Affects People

I know of another case as follows:

I know of a woman who has a nearly thirty-year-old son who has been on drugs since a teenager and is also an alcoholic raised by one parent and had everything he could have ever asked for from a young age.

Whatever his mother bought him he sold it for drugs and alcohol this has been going on for a long time.

He spends his salary on drugs and alcohol and fights with his mother if he does not receive money from her to buy what is slowly killing him on the inside. His life is ruined and has become a troubled man.

The mother worked for most of her life to make everything rosy for her one and only child, but the lack of parental control and bad influences made this person a total waste of life.

It is often said that bad influences make good children the bad ones do you believe it?

Why do people take drugs?

Many individuals take drugs to fit in with a group and want to make a change to be with the same kind of people.

A drug in their mind solves problems it makes them feel like nothing or no one else in this world matters only for a short period.

The problem with drugs is not easily solved. I can't imagine seeing myself that way. Drugs change a person's mind dramatically.

When a drug has an allergic reaction in your body no matter how much has been taken you can end up dead or paralyzed. People involved in drugs don't think about what it does to the brain.

Drugs affect the mind terribly in taking one's mind away from the present moment. The individual can have inappropriate behaviours and can be destructive or violent.

If you are in pain drugs can help relieve that pain but if taken over a long period, your sensations can be blocked off. Memory loss has noticed some parts of a person's mind can go blank from drug abuse.

The mind is clouded with drugs and failure sets in.

Things got harder and the choice for the individual to survive is with drugs.

There is no telling how far they will go to get their hands on their needs to feel good again. Illegal drugs are used worldwide, and many individuals are affected by this problem.

The loss of a child from a drug overdose makes a parent feel helpless and weak. Sometimes poor parenting skills can make the problem bigger.

In a safe environment, some parents feel their children are responsible enough to go out and be with friends they don't look further because the safe place makes them feel that way.

In most cases, parents work and rely on their children to be grown up at home but when a child spends all their time outdoors, they want to explore and learn more. They take what is offered to them get bored with daily activities and get involved with the wrong group.

Fitting in means they can dress to look cool and be like others in their group. Parents can never always be there but with proper discipline, things can work out. You can't stop your child from taking drugs, but you can prevent them from having access to drugs.

Make sure the group of friends your child has is a good one and remember your children can think for themselves and make their own decisions providing they are mature enough.

It is up to them to decide just being there to guide them and not tell them what to do or how to do is very important.

Too many boundaries make parenting more difficult. Grounding your child for every little action is not going to discipline your child.

You are the parent so listen, learn and look around you. Care, love, and be cruel to be kind.

Talk about drugs to your children and about certain incidents fatal or not to them. Most important bring their attention to light everything they need to know about the rough world.