COMPULSION TO DRUGS

By Jackson Nzuli,

When young men graduate from strictness of secondary, they are given unlimited freedom in the institutions of higher learning. One becomes his/her own watch dog. This unlimited freedom eventually leads to unlimited tyranny and sorrows that befall later.

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They get into some habits, the so called pleasures; like drugs, to pass time and to keep ones peer. These habits are taught or learned from others. When these habits are done repeatedly, they become compulsive, taking hold of the doer in such a way that he/she cannot do without them. At first, these habits are really pleasures, pleasures that build strong prison to the morality of the doer, very hard to break in future.

Once these pleasures overturn, one is no longer free, but under harm direction of the addiction. Most of them say that, though they well know that these things are harmful, “They cannot do without them”. At this point, the efforts of the doer will be to satisfy the desires of the prisons he/she is in. Drugs seem to be promising to young people at first, but shows true colours when it is too late.

There is nothing that deceives a man like expectations that promise mountains of gold but deliver void at the end; like drugs which promises pleasures but delivers sorrows in return. 

Advertisements on TVs, newspapers and in radios about drugs promise heavens in them, only for the media to make the product sale. Some adverts are identified with prominent people to make more to also want to be prominent. When young men see and hear all this, the human natures in them exaggerate everything, showing the pleasure in drugs through magnifying lens. Even when the producer of the drug has given a bold stern warning that the product kills, like; “use cigarettes kills” the users are blinded by desires never to see the warning, or even fooled by the desires never to understand the warning! These affects even those able to read and understand the warning like doctors who know the meaning beyond the writing.

It is said that knowledge is power; power passed from pupils to students to adults, being taught on the negative effects of drugs but later forget these theories about drugs, and test them with their own bodies. 
people who are users of drugs are said to be prone to epidemics such as HIV/AIDS infections and road accidents. this is caused by impaired judgement by the users of the drugs.