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Drugs destroy millions of lives every year — often its the children who else would have had a bright future . Convince others to just say “no.” But the best bet is to say no from day one and never try to go for it even once in life.

Many people don't become addicted to drugs, but may continue to do drugs for the same reasons they started: because they want to fit in, because they want to escape, because they're bored, whatever. These are people who have issues with insecurity, and are scared or unwilling to deal with problems in a straight-up, intelligent way--like talking to friends, counselors, even parents! For other people, once they've started taking drugs, they become physically or mentally addicted. They want more--in fact, they feel like they need more. Eventually, trying to get drugs becomes the most important thing in their lives, using up all their time, money, and energy, and really hurting people they're close to.

Blood flow is sluggish and abnormal compared to the brain of a non-user. Such an abnormality may underlie memory loss, learning problems, attention deficits, and even strokes.

The first time someone uses a drug of abuse, he or she experiences unnaturally intense feelings of pleasure. The limbic system is flooded with dopamine. Of course, drugs have other effects, too; a first-time smoker may also cough and feel nauseous from toxic chemicals in a tobacco or marijuana cigarette. But the brain starts changing right away as a result of the unnatural flood of neurotransmitters. Because they sense more than enough dopamine, for example, neurons begin to reduce the number of dopamine receptors. Neurons may also make less dopamine. The result is less dopamine in the brain: This is called down regulation.

There is no cure for drug addiction, but it is a treatable disease; drug addicts can recover. Drug addiction therapy is a program of behavior change or modification that slowly retrains the brain. Like people with diabetes or heart disease, people in treatment for drug addiction learn behavioral changes and often take medications as part of their treatment regimen

Drugs effect on Blood Components May Be Linked to Heart Attack and Stroke.

Studies have also found that the effect of cocaine on blood factors that respond to inflammation by promoting clotting to initiate repair. They found that a component that promotes clotting--von Willebrand factor (vWF)--increases and remains elevated for hours after a single exposure to cocaine. They also found that, compared with less frequent users, heavy users of cocaine have elevated levels of vWF, fibrinogen (a clotting factor), and C-reactive protein (CRP), a blood protein that increases in concentration in response to inflammation and is a reliable indicator of risk for heart attack.These findings suggest that cocaine creates a temporary risk for heart attack or stroke by increasing clotting factors.



SIGN OF DRUGS USE

  • Red, bloodshot eyes
  • Runny nose or frequent sniffing
  • Change in eating or sleeping patterns
  • Change in groups of friends
  • Change in school grades or behavior
  • Withdrawn, depressed, tired, or careless about personal appearance
  • Loss of interest in school, family, or activities
  • Frequently in need of money


Bloodindex strives to persuade that:

  • While on drugs, no matter what individual substance is in question, it will never produce expected results
  • Any problem whatever, be it even the most painful one, can and should be solved without resorting to drugs
  • Drug-induced intoxication can never give one either genuine liberty, or insights and revelations, or expansion of horizons of his/her cognitive power
  • What we want is to persuade you to is to stay healthy and alive with a safe blood. Be happy!

“Drugs equal death. If you do nothing to get out, you end up dying. To be a drug addict is to be imprisoned. In the beginning, you think drugs are your friend (they may seem to help you escape the things or feelings that bother you). But soon, you can find you get up in the morning thinking only about drugs. “Your whole day is spent finding or taking drugs. You get high all afternoon. At night, you put yourself to sleep with heroin. And you live only for that. You are in a prison. You beat your head against a wall, nonstop, but you don’t get anywhere. In the end, your prison becomes your tomb.”



Bloodindex owes to work to free the world from the harmful effects of drug abuse. Standing by and doing nothing about the drug problem only helps those who profit from its spreading. But working together, we can succeed in educating others to the real dangers of drugs. With this spirit we look for people and organisations to join hands to strengthen the fight for drugs.



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