“INTRODUCTION
Drug addiction is not a disease as it may
seem to many people. It is a psychological disorder that leads a person touse drugs
excessively.Drug addiction is a common problem these days.Vast number of
people around the world suffers from this problem. Drugs offer an instant pleasure and relief from stress. Many people begin taking drugs as an escape from their
painful reality. Others take drugs just to experience how it feels.

Drug Addiction:Impact on Physical Health
Drug addiction can take a toll on a person’s physicalhealth.Itharmsvarious
partsof the body incuding brain, throat,
lungs,stomach, pancreas, liver, heart and the nervous system. It can cause health
problems such as nausea, heart problem, damaged liver,stroke, lung disease, weight loss and even cancer.Drug addicts also stand a high risk of contracting AIDS. This is because they usually share needles to inject drugs.
Drug Addiction:Impact on Mental Health
Drug addiction has severe impact on a person’s brain. Drugs interfere with
decision making andimpact a person’s psychomotor skills. They can cause mental health issues such as depression,
Alzheimer, insomnia,bipolar disorder, anxiety.

CONCLUSION
Drug addiction can be extremely hard to leave. However, it is not impossible to do
so. Strong determination and support from friends and family can help in
getting rid of drug addiction.

By: Aditya Rai

Smoking is an extremely crucial public health issue which is considered to be an immediate and serious threat to many developing countries across the globe. Being one of the most significant determinants of increased rate of mortality and ill-health throughout the world, smoking is still a preventable epidemic.

Smoking is major health risk, but still people give different reasons for smoking most of these justifications are not very reasonable.

Smoking is mostly starts at young age because teenagers think that if they start smoking they will be considered as mature, but of course they are wrong and causing serious health risk for themselves. Smoking by many is way to relax, but it comes with greater health risk for damaging the brain.

Harmful Effects

If you smoke, you:

reduce your life expectancy and your quality of life

increase your risk of many conditions and diseases as well as of dying prematurely.

It can be a long time before smokers get a smoking-related condition or disease. Because of this, some people believe it won’t happen to

them.

In fact, up to ⅔ of long term smokers will:

die of a smoking-related disease

have their life cut short by about 10 years on average, compared to non-smokers.