The Evil of Drug Addiction

Our ancestors have spoken of five cardinal sins which must be avoided by all means though they may appear to bring profit or pleasure for the time being. The five cardinal sins are gambling, stealing, murder, unchastity, and drugs. The history of humanity is replete with examples where people have been ruined by following the path of one or another of them. Whole nations were brought to disgrace because of opium.

Why then does a man take to drugs? Some think it adds to pleasure; some other think that it takes away physical weariness. Also they have a doping effect such that at the spur of the moment, the person may act more vigorously but only to find himself weaker later. Still others take it in order to join their peers. In cold countries, they take it to keep themselves warm.

While in very small doses, drugs act as medicines, but in large doses, they can only bring harm. Sustained consumption of them in large quantities will lead to dependency and addiction. Continued addiction upsets the digestive system, especially the liver, leading eventually to death. Drugs also affect the nervous system, especially the brain which controls the voluntary action. So a man under the influence of a drug in unable to walk properly, and he staggers. Id deadens the senses, so he does not know what he does or speaks. Very often, under the influence of a drug, he can do shameful acts.

The mental faculties will be numbed. To forget their worries, people take drugs, but that is not the answer to their worries. The addiction can only bring moral degradation. The addict himself knows it, and so he consumes them only in secret, and no addict openly will come forward to say he is an addict. It would be disapproved by society. Socially, and addict is looked down upon, and people would try to avoid him. He would be a nuisance wherever he is at home or t work. He would bring untold misery to his friends and family, and those around him. Except in the company of a leper. His family also