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| Complications |  Drug addiction can create a number of other disruptions in your life:
• Family. Behavioral changes may cause marital or family strife.
• Work. Work performance may decline, and you may be absent from work more often.
• Social. You may lose or alienate longtime friends.
• School. Academic performance and motivation to excel in school may suffer.
• Legal. Stealing to support your drug addiction and driving while impaired are just two of the possible legal problems drug addiction can cause.
• Financial. Spending money to support your habit takes away money from your other needs, could put you into debt and could lead you into behaviors that are contrary to your values.
• Health. Drug addiction has many bad after effects that depends on the type of a drug you use. Using drugs may make you more likely to do unsafe things such as sharing needles or having sex without protection, which can increase your chances of contracting hepatitis or HIV. Drug addicted people are at a high risk of overdosing because they need the increasing dose of the drug to achieve the high.
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