People with addiction often have one or more associated health issues, which could include lung or heart disease, stroke, cancer, or mental health conditions. Imaging scans, chest X-rays, and blood tests can show the damaging effects of long-term drug use throughout the body.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugs-brains-behavior-science-addiction/addiction-health

Weight control and physical health

Achieving a healthy weight can help you control your cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar.

https://medlineplus.gov/weightcontrol.html#:~:text=Achieving%20a%20healthy%20weight%20can,enough%20will%20make%20you%20overweight.

Save sex for marriage and physical health

significantly higher relationship satisfaction, better communication patterns, less consideration of divorce, and even better quality sex,

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-ideas/waiting-until-marriage

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/sleep-problems/about-sleep-and-mental-health/

Eating and Mental health

When you stick to a diet of nutrient-rich foods, you're setting yourself up for fewer mood swings and an improved ability to focus. Studies have even found that clean diets consisting of mainly whole, unprocessed foods, can help with symptoms of depression and anxiety.

https://www.aetna.com/health-guide/food-affects-mental-health.html#:~:text=When%20you%20stick%20to%20a,symptoms%20of%20depression%20and%20anxiety.

Exercise and Mental health

Exercise releases chemicals like endorphins and serotonin that improve your mood. It can also get you out in the world, help to reduce any feelings of loneliness and isolation, and put you in touch with other people.

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/exercise-and-mental-health#:~:text=Mental%20health%20benefits%20of%20exercise,in%20touch%20with%20other%20people.

Stress free and Mental health

Long-term stress increases the risk of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, substance use problems, sleep problems, pain and bodily complaints such as muscle tension.

https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addiction-index/stress#:~:text=When%20stress%20becomes%20overwhelming%20and,complaints%20such%20as%20muscle%20tension.

Avoid drugs and Mental health

Substance use can lead to changes in some of the same brain areas that are disrupted in other mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, anxiety, mood, or impulse-control disorders.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/common-comorbidities-substance-use-disorders/why-there-comorbidity-between-substance-use-disorders-mental-illnesses

Weight control and Mental health

How does weight control affect your mental health?

Research suggests that excess body fat and poor eating habits increase inflammatory markers. This heightened inflammation can lead to a higher risk of developing depression and also plays a role in immune system health.

https://www.ncoa.org/article/how-excess-weight-impacts-our-mental-and-emotional-health

Save sex for marriage and Mental health

Sex boosts serotonin, which helps improve your mood and fight off depression. Additionally, one of the hormones released during orgasm is serotonin, leaving you feeling soothed from stress and anxiety.

https://www.sdrelationshipplace.com/4-ways-a-healthy-sex-life-supports-good-mental-health/

Avoid drugs and Emotional health

Stimulant drugs can make you feel depressed, anxious and paranoid. Cocaine – a type of stimulant – can make previous mental health problems recur and trigger psychosis and schizophrenia. Ecstasy users can experience memory problems.

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/a-z-topics/drugs-and-mental-health

Save sex for marriage and Emotional health

What's more, couples who delay sex until their wedding night have more stable and happier marriages than couples who have premarital sex, according to the study, which appears in the Journal of Family Psychology.

https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20101227/theres-benefits-in-delaying-sex-until-marriage

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26535473/#:~:text=The%20brain%20is%20considered%20to,turn%2C%20can%20modulate%20emotional%20processes.

The team's findings provide some of the first concrete evidence of stress-induced social avoidance in humans. “Our findings showed that higher levels of stress on one day predicted decreased social interaction the next day while accounting for levels of movement, sleep, and time spent at home,” daSilva says

https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/10/tough-day-stress-can-predict-social-interaction#:~:text=The%20team's%20findings%20provide%20some,at%20home%2C%E2%80%9D%20daSilva%20says.

Avoid drugs and Social health

Drugs can also cause users to become paranoid about their relationships, like thinking that their friends are turning against them. Drug users may even become aggressive and violent toward other people, even their family and friends. For these reasons and more, drugs can destroy friendships.

https://www.justthinktwice.gov/social-consequences-using-drugs#:~:text=Drugs%20can%20also%20cause%20users,more%2C%20drugs%20can%20destroy%20friendships.

Weight control and social health

weight does not equal health. Think of how dieting affects your social life. When you're counting calories/points/macros, cutting out entire foods or food groups, or “eating clean,” it's pretty hard to go out to socialize, because most of the ways we socialize are centered around food.

https://www.rachaelhartleynutrition.com/blog/2016/10/dieting-lead-to-social-isolation#:~:text=And%20no%2C%20weight%20does%20not,socialize%20are%20centered%20around%20food.

Save sex for marriage and Social health

Regardless of religiosity, waiting helps the relationship form better communication processes, and these help improve long-term stability and relationship satisfaction.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222112102.htm#:~:text=%22Regardless%20of%20religiosity%2C%20waiting%20helps,relationship%20satisfaction%2C%22%20Busby%20said.

Mental health: includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.

Emotional health: how we think and feel.

Social health: an individual's ability to handle and act based on different social conditions.