Once addicted to
smoking and drugs, one needs help in order to overcome the addiction.
Smoking is so
addictive which makes you lose your natural abilities.
While you are
talking with your colleagues, you will suddenly realize that you are not saying
what you should be saying until you go away and smoke before you rejoin your
colleagues!
According to senior
psychiatrist and deputy executive director of Butabika Hospital, Dr. David
Basangwa, “Addicts are unable to stop using drugs because chemical changes take
place in their bodies and cause them to crave drugs.”
According
to research, a child’s environment, availability of drugs and genetic factors
are some of the factors that lead to drug addiction in children.
For
instance, children whose parents abuse drugs are more likely to get addicted to
drugs.
Such
children may be 45% to 79% more likely to abuse drugs than children whose
parents stay away from drugs.
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Dr. Fred Okuku of
the Uganda Cancer Institute says little attention is paid to the dangers of
smoking.
Problems associated
with smoking are likely to increase as more young people pick the smoking habit
in a country with the youngest population in the world. One can develop lung
cancer from smoking the pipe, cigarettes and marijuana. As research says, out
of every five smokers, one will develop cancer.
Drug abuse can also
lead to mental illness, loss of jobs or dropping out of school. In most cases,
addicts commit crimes under the influence of drugs, although this may not save
them from the long arm of the law.
