are drugs bad for you?
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This is a complex question.  It depends on why you are taking the drugs.  The same drug that could save your life in an emergency could kill you if taken at the wrong time.\n\nMany recreational drugs might feel good or give you a novel experience, but could have long-term damaging effects.\n\nIt all depends.  \n\nSide note: There is some tentative evidence that marijuana can stimulate the growth of new brain cells.
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I think drugs r wrong.  no one shuld do them.  the more people use drugs the more our world is goin straight down the drain.  i dont kno about any one else but i would definately not ever do drugs and i wuld nevr hang out wit people who do drugs b-cuz they r jus goin to drag me and others down in life.  i and many others want a good future and drugs promise nothing but prison, HELL, and death!\nDRUGS R TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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For several reasons.  One, taking drugs alters your perceptions.  A person who takes drugs is profoundly altering their world-view.  They are "learning/experiencing" things that others don't and it alters them.\n\nSecond, many people take drugs as a form of self-medication.  Ex.  They are emotionally hurting over something and take drugs to feel better; or it is a cry for help.\n\nRegardless, taking recreational drugs can potentially harmful.  Before ingesting substances that could harm you, you should research exactly what it will do for you.\n\nI work as an ER nurse and have seen the dangers of drug abuse.  Marijuana is pretty much harmless, but things like crystal meth are insane.  I wish people could see what "tweakers" look like when they wig out.  I wish they could see the PET scans of tweakers brains... the ones where the brains look like swiss cheese.
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there is nothing wrong with drugs themselves. any drug, if used properly, in moderation, and for a purpose other than just getting f*cked up, can be a usefull tool for expanding the use of the brain and seeing things from a different perspective (something that people should do more often). some of the most brilliant minds in history were drug users. i'm not saying there aren't risks; any tool used recklessly can cause alot of damage. give a kid a hammer and don't teach him to use it properly, and see what happens. windows get broken and maybe hands get smashed. give that hammer to someone old enough to swing it, and teach him the right way to use it, and houses get built. we should stop pretending that drugs have no value and start educating those who choose to use them. and i don't mean "dare". all i ever did in that class was draw joints in the hands of the cartoon characters in the d.a.r.e handbook. and i wasn't even interested in drugs at the time. to me, d.a.r.e. was just another pointless class i had to sit through while counting the minutes 'till the end of the day. big deal.
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First of all most of the substances that are widely believed to kill brain cells do not. They will however alter the chemistry of the brain. This is not to say that it's good to do these things. It is mostly due to the anti drug histeria that began in the early 20th century. Most drugs were used as medicine in the early days. It's when drug abuse occurs that it can be of such a detriment. You can do very real damage to your brain with some of the most widely used drugs available today, alcohol among them. But it is the inhalants that do the damage the fastest. They impart chemical compounds into the bloodstream instead of Oxygen. Thus the brain is robbed of its most vital element. Brain cells then die by the millions. The notion that you become brain damaged by using marijuana or opiates is a bit misleading. The balance of normal brain chemicals is altered, maybe forever, but they are still not killing brain cells. Cocaine is another drug commonly used. It effects the brain chemistry also, but is more damaging to the heart. It kills heart cells on contact in laboratory experiments. It may also be harmful due to the powerful solvents it contains as a residue leftover from its manufacturing process. If you are going to use these substances you should at least inform yourself as to the damage you're doing to your body.
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Drugs are substances that cause a physical or mental change in your body. If they are used therapeutically, they get classed as pharmaceuticals.
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NO NO NO!!!!!!! Drugs can kill you and do nothing to help you. if u r addicted plz get sum help so u dont get hurt.
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Not really. They dont help. Except maybe pot if you have depression problems. But the thing is, you have to get over your problems yourself. You can hooked on some nasty drugs if youre only using to get away from problems. And I'm not saying this because I'm anti-drug. I do drugs pretty regularly, but I got over my problems (depression etc) all by myself. Pot helped a little bit because it makes you happy, but the true happiness you cant get from drugs alone. Good luck\n\n\nPeace
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no its not bad for your health .. actually it has a lot of protine in it its good for you....unless the person has a s.t.d or aids then its bad for you....
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It depends which drug u r using... but nowdays almost all drugs r safe. long time intake can cause some problems but it is very rare. so take care  of ur heart ..and mind..ignorig medicine results heavy damage to body.
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meth is an upper it causes acne and severe tooth decay it makes people halucinate from lack of sleep, they lose weight and look REALLY bad, any other drugs?
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No.\nLay off the drugs. They are bad for you.
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I have tried just about every recreational drug out there(short of needles and pcp and heroin) and I can say that I have never had a bad time or experience from any of it. The problem with drugs is that so many people use them as a priority instead of for recreation. Work, relationships, and other responsibilities should always take precedence over drugs.
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pros it will help you with depression, and the side effects will help you lose weight, there are no cons, except you will encounter ignorant people telling you that it is a bad drug.
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no, not really. I beleive that the only reson pot would lead you to doing other drugs is that after smoking it you would realize that the gov't and everyone else has been lying about how awful it supposibly is. This could lead someone into thinking that the gov't and everyone else lyed about the others as well, so why not do them . This is why its not a gateway drug but yet the goverment in someway makes it so it is.\n\nmarijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this. \n\nWhat many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.\n\nThe most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol  to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.\n\nMarijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.\n\nDue to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking m
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Mental:  drugs can cause a delayed reaction in life, thinking, and cause loss of memory.  It can creat stutters and enhance other mental problems that may have been there prior to the start of using. Deppression and insomnia.\n\nEmotional:  Drugs can create a sense of well being while the person is high/using.  However when coming down or withdrawing from the use they can be very erritable, sensitive, sleepy, and depressed.
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Not all drugs, Advil is a drug. So is cold medicine. Those are good drugs, but things like Ecstacy or Cocain are harmful to the body and to the society.