Drug abuse and addiction problems can be devastating to an individual and a family. Unfortunately, many people don’t recognize they have a problem with substance
Drug abuse begins impacting your body after just a short period of time. While each drug has a different impact on the body, including the teeth, there are two types of drugs in particular that cause quick and significant damage to your mouth and teeth. The use of two highly addictive substances, cocaine and methamphetamine, can lead to the type of drug abuse side effects that dentists often identify and subsequently refer to as meth-mouth or cocaine canines. Abusing either of these two substances can turn an otherwise healthy mouth into a cavity of disastrous proportions.
Drug abuse can have a significant impact on the human body. Most anti-drug campaigns focus on the interpersonal and overall physical damage caused by drug abuse, but the public is rarely made aware of the specifics concerning the effect drugs have on your body. Your gastrointestinal, or GI, tract is a dynamic system of organs including the mouth, stomach, intestines and esophagus that work to break down, digest and expel food. But, the trauma to the GI tract caused by introducing large amounts of drugs to your system is something that can last well beyond active drug use.
Drug abuse more frequently affects the lung than any other organ. Why? Well, the impact of drug abuse on our lungs depends on two things: 1) the direct chemical impact of the substance itself and 2) the method in which we consume the drug. Both ways have an impact on the lungs, lung function and lung tissue. Let’s take a closer look at how drug abuse affects our lungs.
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