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Drug Abuse – The Mental and Physical Effects

Drug use can have a variety of serious, negative, short and long-term effects on the brain and body depending on the substance used. These are just a few potential risks of different drugs:

• Psychological and physical dependence
• Brain damage and memory loss
• Cardiovascular disease / heart failure
• HIV and hepatitis
• Mental health problems
• Sleeping problems
• Extreme weight loss

In the short term some drugs have an intense 'come down' throwing users into depression with feelings of anxiety and paranoia.