Explain The Various Ways In Which Drug And Alcohol Abuse Affect Quality Of Life

1 Discuss the various ways in which drug and alcohol abuse affect quality of life. Be sure to include physical, mental, social, and economic effects.
Both drug and alcohol dramatically change the way they behave. Some of the effects of alcohol it can cause more than 30 medical problems the book lists many different problems. The book includes brain damage. It mentions that it messes up your cognitive functions which will cause you to have the coordination of a 10-year-old. It also causes fetal alcohol syndrome it’s when a women drinks while she’s pregnant and effects the baby. The economic cost doesn’t just effect the person who is addicted to alcohol. It effects the nation by underage drinking because it causes many deaths (both underage and of age) and that ends up costing medical expenses and work loss. The
It went on about meth explaining how bad it is for you and the consequences of meth. For example, paranoia, aggressiveness and many more mood swings. Some of the physical cause visible blood damage to the vessel, changes your heart rate irregular and more. You can also get AIDS because people are so desperate for drugs they start to sell themselves to fulfill their drug addiction. As described in the text earlier alcohol effects the baby, but so do drugs it causes the babies development with motor and cognitive skills. As you can imagine how this also effects the baby’s mental health it also messes with the person’s mental health. There is different economic cost for drugs depending on the amount the person takes, depending on what kind of drug it is and also the different kind of programs for help. When hanging out with the wrong crowd one of the biggest reasons why people get into drugs is peer pressure. It was said in the text that younger kids are the ones who feel more pressured because if they do it