Physical Signs
These include:
- Slurred speech, staggering walk due to lack of co-ordination body movement, blurred and double vision, bloodshot eyes, watery eyes and drowsiness, unusual rashes and sores around the mouth and nose
- Sudden change in eating habits such as loss of appetitive or eating too much Burnt fingers, burnt holes in clothes ans injection marks
- General poor health
- Dry mouth or constant licking of lips Persistent cough
- Emergence of gangsterism with same mannerisms, for example , hair cut Untidiness-becoming untidy or tidy all of a sudden
- Gathering in groups in isolated places or dejected buildings
Psychosocial signs
These signs include:
- Withdraw from the family members and friends. Being involved with other company and that is of suspicious behavior
- Mood swings. Victims may sometimes become violent, excessively excited or argumentative
- Confused conversation, impaired judgment and lack of proper concentration given tasks
- Behavior change where some may present extreme changes in behavior and
- personality e.g. being untidy or very neat all of a sudden
- Others may present blank, dreamily expressions, fear of lack of sleep Truancy and refusal to go to school
- Despair and loss of interest in life, which may lead to depression
- Mental sickness may set in. Victims experience hallucinations and delirium such as seeing things that are not real.
- Drugs could also lead to suicide Compulsive drug seeking