Drugs effect on society

• Drugs and alcohol is one way of not meeting and solving the problems of life. When people do not solve their problems, society will work less well. Read more about causes of substance abuse.
• Drugs and alcohol can cause effects like illnesses, which can be expensive for society to cure, for example lung cancer caused by cigarette smoking, mental illness like psychoses or neurological illnesses.
  • Read more about damage effects caused by cocaine.
  • Read more about damage caused by cannabis (marijuana, hasch).
  • Read more about liver damage effect caused by alcohol abuse.
  • Read more about risk effects with Extacy (XTC).
  • Read more about risk effects with Heroin.
• Use of alochol or narcotics during pregnancy will increase the likelihood of children with bad school results and, when grown up, unemployed.
• The high costs of narcotics abuse can cause economic catastrophe for the addict.
• The high costs often cause other criminality, which causes extensive damage.
• Alcohol and drugs can make people behave in unsafe, irresponsible and aggressive way, and are therefore forbidden in combination with driving motorcars, ships, etc.
• Medicines prescribed by medical doctors can make life easer to live and prevent crime. This is true, also for narcotics like Methadon to people who already are heroin addicts. These medicines are similar to Heroin, but does not prevent the user from work. They do however have side effects, for example sexual problems.

There are other medicines similar to Methadone, such as Subutex, Subuxone, LAMM (levo-alpha acetylmethadol), Buprenex, Naloxone.