Be it illegal or prescribe drugs, they do have side effects in most cases, and a bad one at that. When there are different and unintended occurrences after you consume any kind of prescribed or non-prescribed drug, it basically leads to the fact that the drugs are causing side effects either to your body or mind, or both. Most of the time the side effects are pretty common and not that extreme in nature, yet there are some drugs which are pretty strong, and can cause harmful side effects not in the short run but in the long term. A lot of these side effects might continue to show their effect on you for the rest of your life, and some might just curb down and limit itself after a certain period of time. But the point is that yes, drugs do have bad side effects if not taken in limit and control. In some cases, you cannot help it but take medicines which contain certain amount of drugs in them, yet you shouldn’t make them a habit, it shouldn’t happen both in cases of prescribed and illegal drugs, because they will harm you for the rest of your life. Here are top 10 bad and harmful effects of drugs which could affect your body and mind for a long time.

10. Aches

A lot of prescribed drugs are taken to heal aches and pains in your body, but one of the most common and bad side effects of them are that they cause body aches themselves. In order to get relief of that pain, you in turn end up consuming more medicines containing that drug, and thus this vicious cycle of taking prescribed drugs continues. That’s why most of the time it is advisable not to take pain killers as a person gets used to them due to the drugs, and without the drugs it becomes difficult for them to get over that pain. Drugs cause aches and pains in your body parts such as legs, head, and these drugs also go on to cause nerve damage in some cases.

9. Loss of other senses

Drugs also cause the loss of the five sense of your body. Drugs used for treating some medical conditions and other diseases end up causing vision problems or problems in taste and smell of a person. A person faces problem in detecting the five senses, which may lead to some major problems in future.

8. Urine

Some drugs lead to a change in the colour of urine. When a person passes out urine in any other colour other than clear, yellow or yellowish brown, the person might be affected with some infection or probably whose urine contains blood in it. This usually happens when a person takes prescribed drugs to treat some other medical condition of his.

7. Bowel control problems

People sometime would go to any level to shed the extra fat and weight in their body. The drugs which help in weight loss cause a majorly huge harm to the body by creating bowel control problems. Drugs used for losing weight have been found to affect people where they find it difficult to excrete, and find it difficult to eat as well without the drugs, which clearly indicated bowel problems within their body.

6. Compulsive behavior

People consuming a lot of these prescribed and non-prescribed drugs tend to get affected with compulsive behavior disorder where they end up doing something to an extreme level. For example, a person who never drank before could just turn into an alcoholic, and a gambler could continue gambling and losing money in huge amounts. Drugs affect the brain in such a way that a person does not have any control of what he is doing and no understanding on any situation.

5. Amnesia

Amnesia is a medical condition wherein at times a person does not have any recollection of his memory whatsoever. Though this disease is caused due to a lot of other factors, one important factor which contributes to this condition is drugs. Drug usage and consumption in the long term might cause the person to get affected by Amnesia, thus neurologically affecting him for life.

4. Birth defects

A lot of drugs are prescribed during pregnancy, before pregnancy and after pregnancy. It is important to take the medication carefully as a lot of drugs can even cause problems during delivery and during pregnancy. They interfere with the fetus inside the mother’s womb and cause a lot of birth defects in the newborn baby.

3. Hallucinations

Hallucinations are not only caused by illegal form of drugs but could be a result of excessive prescribed drugs as well, such as consuming too many painkillers and other drugs to treat medical conditions. People tend to hear sounds which no one else can and see things which no one else could see. They hallucinate by having some disturbing visuals and thus affect them physically as well as mentally.

2. Sleep disorders

When drugs are given to people to help them get rid of any addiction such as smoking or alcohol and for any kind of medical treatment, the drugs tend to cause night terrors where a person suddenly starts screaming in the middle of their sleep, claiming to have had a nightmare. They do not have any recollection of this incident the next morning whatsoever. This effect of drugs is highly harmful as it affects the patient mentally, and the person is unable to sleep for hours, and in some cases, even days.

1. Suicidal tendencies

People who are excessively on such drugs tend to have suicidal tendencies and get thoughts of killing themselves. Most of the people who take drugs to get rid of their medical condition might often suffer from paranoia where they feel everyone wants to harm them, and thus try means and ways of ending their life, leading to a bad form of mental condition.