by BT Cassidy

Created on: September 28, 2007

Lets be honest, there really aren't any positive health benefits to doing drugs- I should know, I'm a drug user; there are certainly no benefits to abuse. Be it pharmaceutical or illegal, drug abuse damages your body and can damage your life.

Most abusers are fairly obvious, it shows in our eyes; the way your pupils dilate, the quality of your skin the color of your teeth- there's a hundred different tells, the easiest and most commonly known is the red eye effect of dope; the pimple effect of meth is becoming more well known; for years jokes have been made about how speed produces great cheek bones and Kate Moss has been known to support the cocaine and champagne diet to enhance those hard drawn features.

That's all just aesthetic, ever wonder what's happening inside your body?

Yeah, you can change the bong water, but can you clean your lungs out? Ever wondered what an MRI of your brain on E would look like? Imagine the synapses sparking and misfiring as you try to scratch that itch in your eyeballs from too much datura.

Lets call drug abusers addicts, just for the fun of it, drug abuser sounds so much more light weight.

The first thing an addict will do with their paycheck is ensure that they've a supply of their drug of choice. Do you see anything wrong with that picture? Drugs have become the number one priority and therefore keystone to their lives. Drug abuse will produce this effect.

In my own experience my ex was violently aggressive when she couldn't get weed; sounds extreme, but this is how much it meant to her. Try another drug, say ICE, and see how violent the user becomes, on or off the drug.

Of course this violence in my ex, and so many other addicts was consequential of her drug-induced psychosis; just another risk we users tend to poo poo with the knowledge that it only happens to people who can't handle their drugs.

Ever tried to hang out at a big work function stoned to oblivion? Not a lot of fun, ruins your social standing, so you tend not to go out with non users, in fact, your entire social net work will be made up of fellow drug abusers; on the days you're without it's like an NA meeting; twelve withdrawn addicts moaning about how they wish they didn't do drugs and how much they really want them right now.

So far we've got your body failing under the self abuse, psychosis, social ramifications that will obviously extend to your work place and the simple fact that your life becomes the focused on a drug; a drug, that with abuse will most likely have a lesser and lesser effect and duration. I'd say that's case closed.

Drugs can ruin your life and the lives of those around you. There is nothing to gained health wise from drug abuse, and there is nothing you cannot do in the real world without drugs; the dependence is the most terrifying part of the addiction, you've given yourself over as a slave to a chemical.

So why do I do drugs? Hell, because I'm too damn scared not to.

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