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How Drugs Affect Your Looks and Your Body

Drugs Affect Looks Woman in MirrorFrom the National Institute on Drug Abuse, here’s the latest on some of the ways drugs can change your physical appearance and your body—for the worse:

YOUR SKIN

Steroids cause acne breakouts on your face and body. Meth causes acne, dull skin, and self-inflicted wounds from picking at your face and body because you think that bugs are crawling under your skin, leaving sores and scars. And don’t forget those needle marks and collapsed veins if you shoot up any drugs!

YOUR HAIR

Steroids can cause baldness in men and facial hair and baldness in women.

YOUR CHEST

Steroids can cause development of breasts in males.

YOUR NOSE

Snorting cocaine can lead to nosebleeds and a decreased sense of smell. Eventually it can entirely destroy the cartilage in your nose.

PHYSIQUE

Meth causes a decrease in appetite, causing you to look thin and skeletal. Steroids can cause you to stop growing – you may never reach your full adult height.

LUNGS

Smoking marijuana can cause breathing diseases, including a chronic cough, bronchitis, and emphysema, and lung inflammation and lung infection.

KIDNEYS

Ecstasy and meth raise your body temperature, causing dehydration, which restricts blood flow to the kidneys and may result in kidney failure.

MOUTH

Meth causes dry mouth, teeth clenching, and poor dental hygiene, resulting in meth mouth – rotten teeth, gum disease, and bad breath.

HEART

Stimulants, like cocaine and meth, cause irregular heartbeats, heart attack, stroke, blood clots, heart damage, or sudden death. Inhalants can cause a rapid or irregular heartbeat, leading to heart failure and death. Fatal cardiac slowdown can be caused by sedatives, prescription pain medication, or opioids. Mix alcohol with any of these drugs and you increase your risk of coma and death!

HELP IS AVAILABLE

If you or a loved one are struggling with drug addiction, call The Council on Recovery at 713.942.4100 or contact us here. We can help!

 

  Date: June 6, 2018June 11, 2018  ·     Author: TCOR_Marketing  ·    Category: Health, Blog, Featured, Highlights

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