Indications of Drug Use

How Drugs Affect Behaviour

Even if they are in denial, the drug addict will attempt to withhold and hide the evidence of his drug use from friends and family members. Eventually (sooner than later), the drug addict will suffer the effects of his own dishonesty and guilt. Such noticeable effects include a withdrawn attitude, difficulty reasoning with others and strange uncharacteristic behaviour.

As the drug addict's drug and/or alcohol consumption increases, the guilt and the depression symptoms will also accentuate. It will eventually get to the point where the drug addict will sacrifice his/her personal integrity, relationships with family and friends, savings, retirement pension and anything else that can be used to get more drugs to feed the habit.

At this point, drugs have become the drug addict's uttermost priority. Consequently, aspects of his life such as relationships, job performance and his/her overall attitude will be sacrificed to kill the pain.

Drugs and Personality Changes

A "drug personality" can be described as an artificial personality which is created by the consumption of drugs. It's not the real person at all. Drugs bury the person into a world of their own where they no longer see the world of others. They have the effect of changing the attitude of an individual from his original personality to a false personality of one filled with hostilities and hatreds hidden and suppressed inside of him/her. The person abandons all responsibility and becomes a slave to the habit.

As a side note this can go a long way to explaining why society is experiencing more crime and more violent behaviour than we have ever had. The two events are what is called "date coincident" in other words their commencement and growth are matched and parallel.

An individual with a drug habit will demonstrate such characteristics as:

• Mood swings
• Withdrawing from loved ones
• Unable to finish things, projects, promises
• Withheld resentment which is not openly expressed
• Secret hatreds
• General lying and dishonesty, even to close friends
• Distancing themselves from others
• Bouts of depression. One day up another day down
• Stealing, even from family and friends
• Illogical reasoning and stupidity
• Dwindling responsibility for themselves, their friends and their stuff