Doing drugs damages the body, mind, and spirit of the person doing them. When some people think about getting high the first thing that comes to mind is feeling good. It never seems to occur to drug users that they are really feeling good about absolutely nothing. It’s not like they have just fallen in love, or reached professional success, or even doing something fun. The feeling they get is artificial and the price for that temporary simulation of happiness is often much higher than the drug user can ever imagine. Not only has the drug user been lied to about what they are getting when they use, but they are also being robbed of real happiness far into their future.
There is no safe amount of time that you can use drugs and not lose more than you have to lose. Suddenly the value of everything that is truly important plummets and the one thing that is useless and cheap is held above all else.
The effects on a drug user’s body can be seen in a very short amount of time. People in their 20’s start losing their teeth and they can’t find it in themselves to care. Teenagers start losing their hair but they hardly notice. They also don’t notice or don’t care that they have enormous cysts on their faces that become scabbed and infected. They lose or gain a lot of weight because they can’t eat, or cannot keep track of what they are eating, but nutrition is really not important considering they are knowingly consuming poison on a daily basis. As drug use goes from once in a while to several times a day, the person using drugs starts to become somewhat aware that when they are not high they are physically limited in ways that you would expect from a much older person. This may catch their attention long enough for them to realize that they want to get high more often, so they don’t notice their physical decline. It’s not really that they care that they can’t do the things they used to, it is more that somewhere deep down they are scared of what they are doing to themselves. Once a drug user has become used to the destroyed state of their bodies it becomes the “new” them.
After their physical health and vibrancy is gone the drug user may notice something they didn’t expect to happen, has happened, and this could be the one thing that they can never get back, even if they did stop using drugs, and were able to somewhat restore their body. When they decided to take the false sense of happiness from getting high, they gave up their ability to feel a real sense of happiness. The chemicals in the brain start to become altered and cells die or mutate to the point that the brain becomes unable to register joy, satisfaction, peace, calmness, and love. No matter what great event takes place in the drug user’s life they will not be able to experience it in the way they may want to.
Immunity to drugs can make getting high a very different experience than it was at first. The feel good high is replaced with an empty flatness inside. At this point getting high has taken away any chance of feeling high on drugs and most importantly on life.
