Question

List personal and community consequences of drug and alcohol uses.

Answer 1

Personal consequences of alcohol consumption:

• Behavioural,mood and personality changes
• Coordination problems like asterixis
• Cardiac problems like cardiomyopathy,hypertension, stroke, ishemic heart diseases
• Liver problems like fatty liver, Cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cancer liveri, Hepatic encephalopathy
• Pancreatitis chronic and acute
• Cancer of mouth, throat, esophagus
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Supression of immune system

These are related to consequences of alcohol on body.

Other personal consequences

• Less attentive
• Neglect grooming and cleanliness
• Isolation from family and friends
• Unemployment
• Divorce
• Dependence on alcohol
• Financial problems

Community consequences of alcohol :

• Risk of violence
• Reduced productivity and revenue
• Poverty
• Accidents
• Disharmony in society
• Decreased national income
• Increase of taxes

Personal consequences of drug abuse:

• Depressed immunity
• Risk for acquiring sexually transmitted diseases
• Stress , depression, anxiety
• Sexual dysfunction
• Nephrotoxicity
• Central nervous system damage
• Cardiac arrythymias,
• Pneumonia and lung problems and Ca. lung
• All types of cancers
• Mental disturbances

Community consequences of drug abuse:

• Financial health care burden
• Increase in rates of violence
• Child abuse
• Accidents
• Low productivity
• Domestic disputes
• Increase in homelessness and poverty
• Unemployment
• Deforestation for growing drug plants