Narcotics

Use of the drug whether positive or negative is for one reason to stop feeling pain or putting the body in a relaxed state. Long-term effects include inability to resist disease and infection, inflammation of the veins, bronchial congestion, hepatitis, and skin abscesses or other growths. Euphoria drowsiness, loss of pain sensations, constipation, urinary problems, restlessness, and nausea are all just short-term effects of addiction. Not only are there dangers in the use of the drugs themselves the tool used to take them could also be harmful.

Narcotics are used therapeutically to treat pain, suppress cough, alleviate diarrhea, and induce anesthesia. Today the word is used for more then what it was intended for.

Addiction to narcotics can lead to serious problems. The basic goal of the use of narcotics is to relieve pain immediately. Now the term is used to describe an “illicit” substance as a narcotic. Delayed recoveries from surgery and decreased immunity to disease are effects of pain not being relieved. The ways that they are taken vary, orally, skin patches, or injected.