5 Reasons Why You Should Not Do Drugs

A young man was arrested by the police and was taken to the emergency ward of a hospital, after he knocked down an 18years old girl with his power bike, and suffered multiple injuries himself. I watch as he tried to resist police arrest. He struggled and yelled at the top of his voice, bleeding from wounds on his left brow, forehead, right ankle, knees and left forearm.

It took the effort of five able bodied policemen to bundle him into the waiting police van. He kicked and cursed as he was taken to the nearest hospital; he was actually bleeding profusely from the left brow and needed to be taken to the hospital fast. I followed the police van on a motor bike; I needed to see what happened at the hospital as the young man’s behaviour was completely strange to me.

On arrival at the hospital, another drama ensued: the patient refused to come down from the van. He held on to one of the poles by the side of the vehicle. The policemen tried all the tricks they knew to get him down from the vehicle, all to no avail. He eventually grew weaker and began to faint before they could get him into the emergency ward. He was given an anaesthesia before the doctor and nurses could stitch his wounds.

The following day I paid him a visit, only to meet a very sober person showing some signs of depression. He was completely disappointed at himself: he admitted he was under the influence of drugs. He realized that he would have died because of his stupid acts if not because of the police.

Why should you not do drugs?
You should never do drugs because if you do, you are likely to encounter one of these problems:

1.You are not in charge of your actions: Drugs would make you not be in charge of your senses and actions. You would lose your reasoning power and do things that would likely endanger your life.
2.You are prone to crimes: Drugs could push you to commit crimes like stealing, rape, murder etc.
3.Regret: Doing drugs brings a life of regret: you will definitely realize one day that you have done what you never intended to do, and when that happens your life would be filled with disappointments and regrets. For example, if you raped a girl or committed murder under the influence of drugs, you would live to regret your action for the rest of your life.
4.Adaptation problem: Becoming addicted to substances would make it difficult for you to adapt to normal way of life, as you are likely to depend on these substances in order to carry out normal daily activities such as sleeping, relaxing, toileting, digesting food etc.
5.Poverty: it is difficult to become rich when you do drugs, because you are going to spend a bulk of the money that you get on purchasing those drugs and substances. Since there is always a compulsion to take the substances, you are likely to spend a huge proportion of your earnings on substances, and in the long run you suffer poverty.