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1.Drug use can also result in long-term health outcomes that include: harm to organs and systems in your body, such as your throat, stomach, lungs, liver, pancreas, heart, brain, nervous system. cancer (such as lung cancer from inhaling drugs).
2.Poisons in tobacco smoke can damage or change a cell's DNA. DNA is the cell's “instruction manual” that controls a cell's normal growth and function.
3.That's because drugs such as methamphetamine (meth), heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and even marijuana can cause problems for your teeth and gums.
4.The liver breaks down and filters out harmful substances in the blood, and manufactures proteins, enzymes, and hormones which the body uses to ward off infections.
5.Substance abuse can simply be defined as a pattern of harmful use of any substance for mood-altering purposes."Substances" can include alcohol and other drugs (illegal or not) as well as some substances that are not drugs at all.
6.People who engage in drug use or high-risk behaviors associated with drug use put themselves at risk for contracting or transmitting viral infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), or hepatitis. This is because viruses spread through blood or other body fluids. It happens primarily in two ways: (1) when people inject drugs and share needles or other drug equipment and (2) when drugs impair judgment and people have unprotected sex with an infected partner.
7.Substance abuse refers to the abuse of alcohol and other drugs, primarily illicit drugs, but what is considered "illicit" is often culturally determined and can vary between social groups. Most culturally distinct groups have used and abused alcohol and other drugs throughout the ages, and they have established codes of behavior in their approach to drugs and alcohol.
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