People with good emotional health are in control of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They feel good about themselves and have good relationships. They can keep problems in perspective. There are events in everyone’s lives that can emotional stress. If the person does not know how to deal with it in the proper manner, they may look to drugs for relief. Emotional problems and drugs are a bad combination. Stress and problems with family, work, or school can sometimes trigger emotional problems. Drugs mask these problems for the user but ultimately make it worse. However, people with good emotional health have learned ways to cope with stress and problems without the need of drugs.

Emotional problems and drugs go hand and hand. The severity of emotional problems and drugs is associated with increased likelihood of adolescent drugs use.

The combination of emotional problems and drugs can cause someone to do things they might not do otherwise like:

Driving at dangerous speeds or other daredevil acts
Taking too many drugs which may result in anger, violent behavior, or depression which can intensify as more drugs are consumed
Commit suicide or physical and sexual assaults
Make family life chaotic
Cause emotional problems in their children which can last into adulthood
Decrease work or class attendance and performance