Highly addictive drugs can be devastating to an individuals social and personal life, causing separation between family and friends.
On an individual level, addictive drugs can harm a persons self image, disconnecting their ability to understand the level of risk an individual is willing to take for their addiction, and completely ignoring the harm they are doing to themself and others.
Changes in personality can be a major issue with friends and family for many people dealing with addiction, mood swings and drug related aggression can be troubling for many people around an abuser of an additive substance.
Among the changes in personality is the related activities that go along with the use of an addictive substance, this is know as drug association. To associate an activity with the temporary good feelings the drug provides.
An individual is likely to gain habits based on their drug taking habits, and these habits will likely induce the feeling to further take the addictive drugs that induced these habits. This can create a cycle of repeated use.
With long term use, and repeated cycles, a new form of habit is created through repetition, although the habit may not be to continue taking the substance, the associated habit created from the substance abuse may remain.
The habits that remain from addiction drug use can also be equally as devastating, especially when it is a deliberately induce affliction.
The ability to see risk, especially from the supplier of such addictive substances is highly reduced, which can pose a very high danger to an individual, the associated relationship created from a person trading in addictive substances and friendship can be artificially made.
With that in mind, a mixture of issues can be created between the "feel good" factor and "feel good" supplier can have devastating effects if the supplier has a bigger plan behind the supply of such substances.
Be aware of a work based supply of a drug, a job for a drug supply while under the influence of a drugs can create an associated connection in the brain between the activity and the supply of a drug, creating an more urge to partake in that activity.
The danger of this can induce an urge towards activities that can be more damaging than the taking of an addictive substances than a person is seeking, such as a taking part in criminal activities that is considered to be bigger crimes than simply the possession and use of the illegal substances.
The dangers of these activities may not just be considered larger crimes against the public, but can be very damaging to an individual.
Heavy drug use crossed with a set up situation can adjust a person's mentality towards cultists, terrorism, slavery and sex slavery.
These situations can start with simple drug deals, and slowly move into work based earning of drugs, it is not a simple single step to this destination.
The process can take many years, slowly lowering resistance and creating a desensitization to an individual towards such a position.
This can start in a seemingly respectful manner, slowly degrading what an individual would call respectful, at a first glance a simple trade can seem to be a simple exchange
After an amount of time, a small amount of exposure can be done to desensitize an individual to the existence of such a situation, this can simply be done through conversations about a subject or through witnessing a situation at a glance.
This can be done very casually, with the glorification of such subjects through mundane subjects, like using gaming or an end of the world scenario as the a grounding basis to the conversations.
This will likely be a subject that come up many times, and not a one off conversation.
At this point, this is a major red flag, a major warning sign on what is a possibly in reality.
Detachment from such individuals at this point is a very important thing, and should be treated with a priority. These people who wish to seed such ideas, can act on such ideas if they glorify such ideas.
To be addicted to a substance is truly to be enslaved by that substance. The substance controls you. But that also means the people who provide that substance can control you.