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Beyond Addiction: How Drug Abuse Affects Those Around You

Beyond Addiction: How Drug Abuse Affects Those Around You, by Lynda Arbon. Photograph of person's hand in silhouette, by Andrei Lazarev
Photograph by Andrei Lazarev

The harmful effects of drug abuse go beyond just the individual, they effect one’s friends and family too… and that is further reason to stop

Drugs cause so much harm, not only to the person that is doing them but to those around them. 

A lot of times, the person doing the drugs does not realize that they are hurting those that are close to them. They might not realize a lot of what is going on around them because they are more worried about getting their fix. Drugs can destroy

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