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The Effects Of Using Narcotics And Their Health Implications
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The Effects Of Using Narcotics And Their Health Implications
Using drugs may pose a vast level of long-term, short-term, indirect, and direct
consequences ( Clarke
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Skoufalos & Scranton
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2016). Those impacts depend mostly on the
individual drugs consumed, their method of consumption, the levels consumed, the user’s
health, amongst other factors. Short-term results often include a lack of appetite, heartbeat
alterations, wakefulness, high blood pressure, heart failure, psychosis, stroke, overdose, and
death. Those health complications mainly occur after a single-consumption. Consequently, this
paper focuses on the effects of using narcotics and their health implications
Longer-term consequences include lung cancer, heart attacks, HIV/ AIDS, mental
disorders, cancer, addiction, and hepatitis. Addiction is a mental disorder, and surprisingly, not