Drugs has also other impact on those drugs abuser. It is a actually a chain reaction, it causes them to have family breakup, and also losses of money as it was spent to buy those drugs. Also, their children might also get affected by them. The foetus in the pregnant, drug abusing mother could also be affected as the drug may affect the growth or health of the foetus.

It is my understanding that drug use can arrest development. The individual physically ages but does not grow emotionally. There is a lot of "catch up" to be accomplished after drug use stops. If a person is an adolescent and avoiding difficult to handle emotions by "escaping" through drugs, they miss valuable lessons in managing their feelings. It's a vicious cycle: feeling uncomfortable feelings and then getting high to feel better. Part of maturing is learning to deal with unpleasant feelings in a constructive fashion.

2 votes for what Empty said....took the words right out of my mouth.

but okay...something not physical or mental.... hmmmmm

I was 15...had no real way of making money but liked drugs and needed lots more money. I embezzled over 3grand from a job I worked at to support my habit. To make it worse.....my friends Mom owned the business which is the only reason a 15 year old could embezzle.

So that = theft and lack of morals.

Heres another one. Arguably physical.

Rather than go to an after school activity like sports or hobby(heck even school in general), I opted to go to my friends house and smoke pot and experiment with other drugs. Even tho after school stuff seems silly, I was so young that I needed to try these things out to see if I liked them. I never tried and now im 22 and play drums like a maniac. I wonder how good I would be if I had been playing for 7 years instead of only a few. I know many musicians that first met their love from a school band or boredom. Not being bored kept me from searching for things I loved.

OK...so you are saying that, when you were young, instead of being bored you were using drugs. That's a confusing statement to me. It seems like for lack of something better to do, you experimented with drugs. Boredom led to drug use. Then, the more drugs you used, the less interested you were in doing anything else. The drugs narrowed your perspective....you never imagined that there was anything else out there that you would enjoy like you enjoyed doing drugs. That's how it looks to me.

Re: theft and lack of morals. I am thinking that when you were 15, stealing was preferable to confronting and constructively dealing with your feelings. You liked how you felt when you smoked pot. Instead of concluding that this was a hobby that you couldn't afford or choosing to make money legitimately, you gave yourself permission to steal to get what you wanted. This thinking only makes sense when viewed through a smokey marijuana haze. The behavior is motivated by pure selfishness which is evidence of emotional immaturity. I suspect that you had morals. They just became less important than getting high. That's just my perspective.

Its a tough one. Boredom did NOT lead to my drug use. My life was so full of activity that boredom just wasn't an option. It started as an experiment of something new. Then.....after a while you are right. Drugs took over from the other things I did enjoy that kept me busy. It becme what I wanted to do ALL the time. I was never happy unless I was high. I was never bored till I quit smoking pot.

RE RE theft and morals. Pretty much! I was 15, pretty safe to say I was emotionally immature.