✨ANSWER✨

Drug use can also result in long-term health outcomes that include

✨EXPLANATION✨

-harm to organs and systems in your body, such as your throat, stomach, lungs, liver, pancreas, heart, brain, nervous system

-ancer (such as lung cancer from inhaling drugs)

-infectious disease, from shared injecting equipment and increased incidence of risk-taking behaviors

-harm to your baby, if you are pregnant

-acne, or skin lesions if the drug you are taking causes you to pick or scratch at your skin

-Needle marks and collapsed veins, if you inject regularly

baldness

-male pattern hair growth in women, such as facial hair

-jaw and teeth issues due to clenching and grinding your teeth; or bad breath, teeth cavities and gum disease

-mood swings and erratic behavior

-addiction

-psychosis (losing touch with reality)

-accidental overdose

-higher risk of mental illness, depression, suicide and death.

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