Drugs : Drugs And Drugs

In “Drugs in Schools: Myths and Realities,” Peter Venturelli (2000) discusses the reasons as to why many students and young adults turn to drugs and how the increase rate in drugs encouraged schools to adopt a policy on them. It is evident that there has been an increase in the use of licit and illicit drugs among teenagers in the United States. According to Venturelli (2000), drugs are defined as “any substance that modifies body functions.” With that being said, drugs can affect an individual’s perception of reality through their attitude, personality, and behavior. The article reports an increase of drug use from teenagers aged 12 to 17 and indicates the rate has increased from “11.7 percent in 1992 to 18.0 percent in 1995” (Venturelli, 2000). As the public became aware of the results, many schools decided to implement a policy of zero tolerance for drugs for safety and education purposes. For example, drugs can create problems for students because it can affect their thinking, which can hinder their education. In addition, researchers realized that education on drugs and TV advertisements, has had little to no effects for frequent drug users (Venturelli, 2000). Venturelli (2000) thoroughly discusses the reasons as to why teenagers turn to drugs for help. Individuals between the ages of 13 through 18, also known as adolescents, experience changes as they begin to discover the world around them. Adolescents bodies begin to change as they go through puberty. For instance,

What If I told you that legalizing all substances, substances such as heroin could do much more good than harm. Drugs have been public enemy number one ever since Richard Nixon declared so in the 1960’s. The war on drugs today had proven to become a huge failure with some unintended consequences. Some of those consequences include corruption, mass incarceration, and political debilitation and violence. It has negatively affected many across the globe. While this is happening we continue funding drug cartels who what nothing more than to keep drugs underground. The war on drugs is a war of freedom, a war of moral principles, a war of extortion of the US people.

Drugs in the United States are a complex issue that ranges from legal, over-the-counter and prescription medications to illicit substances that are highly addictive. While many people have a legitimate need for medication to function on a daily basis, there are also many incidences where these potentially helpful drugs are abused. When legal medications are abused, they cause the same personal, social and economic problems as illicit substances. This paper will look at the use of both prescription medications and illicit drugs to see who is taking drugs, who is susceptible to drug addiction, the social and economic impact of drug abuse, and, finally, a few remedial solutions for drug abuse in the United States.

Cocaine is a stimulant that is originally derived from coca leaves. This drug is highly addictive and is a relatively old drug, considered to be one of the oldest known psychoactive substances. Other names for the drug include “coke”, “C”, “snow”, “flake”, and “blow”. Cocaine was a popular and widely used drug in the 1980s and 1990s, but is still around today. In the early 1900s, before it was discovered to be an addictive drug, purified cocaine was a main active ingredient in medicines that treated different illnesses. Cocaine is a fine, white powdery substance that is generally administered by inhalation through the nose, but can also be dissolved in water to be injected into the bloodstream. Cocaine can also be processed into a rock crystal known as the drug “crack”, which can then be heated up and administered by smoking.

About $800 Billion worth of drugs are sold every year. The drug industry has affected agriculture in various ways. While some may think that drug industry has done good for the agriculture industry. It has also had repercussions. Drugs not only affect our ecosystem, it also affects us human beings, animals, and plants. It’s similar to a cycle, we start off with the ecosystem, which then leads to plants, then the animals, to human beings.

There has always been a close association between drugs and crime. Drugs have been seen as a way out of suffering in one’s life and so as long as there is suffering there will always be a market for drugs. The struggle to keep one’s self sane when away from a substance they need can cause them to do crazy and even violent things to others. Things like murdering someone because they did not have proper control of themselves is not something unheard of by any means. These people can been seen as both victims and criminals, as they were not in a sound state of mind when doing these actions, however them doing the actions does not mean they should get off scot-free. The users are only one side of the coin, the other is the drug dealers. The dealers do not have to be selling purely illegal drugs, they may be selling prescription drugs too, but in the pursuit of their own survival in a struggling life, they turn to selling substances to others. By doing so they can even amass a fortune, but this is still a crime, and what people will do to try to get all this potential money can span from robbing to murder. The articles I read from different media support the fact there is indeed a tie with crime and drugs, being that an increase of drugs on the street leads to more crime.

More and more people are sucked into the horrible addiction. An addiction is an actual disease that occurs in the brain. Many times these drugs affect the brain and in result, cause the addiction to occur. More and more there are people coming into the hospital from a heroin overdose, are released from the hospital, go back out, and inject the drug. The drug is so powerful that these individuals do not see what is happening to them as they slowly kill themselves.

I read an article from the Lakeland Ledger which was posted on April 23, 2017 at 12:01am entitled Shining a light on the dark corner of despair.

{Attention} Heroin’s first appearance to the world occurred in 1874 around Germany. Also known as Diamorphine, heroin was first successfully synthesized by Charles Romley Alder Wright, a researcher at St. Mary’s Medical Hospital in London. American doctors jumped on the release of heroin as soon as it hit the markets. Heroin was used to treat many things including headaches, colds and even female hysteria. Around the time of its invention, a major morphine epidemic was sweeping across the nation. It was believed by the majority of American doctors that heroin had a solution to the long asked question of how to help the morphine problem. Heroin was supposed to be a safe and non-addictive substitute for morphine and opium. This was supposed

The war on drugs has been a topic of much discussion since Nixon’s Presidency. This war on drugs has attacked street drugs like marijuana, heroin, LSD and other various popular drugs sold by individual drug dealers (“9 Most Common Street Drugs”). With the focus on ending illegal drug use and trafficking, other easily abused substances have become more popular. Some of these substances are doctor prescribed medication. Accessibility and effects of these drugs have made them a drug of choice for many addicts. Prescription medication is on the rise and needs to be monitored. There are many reasons for the increase in abuse of prescription medications like the massive overprescribing, the way pharmaceutical representatives bribe doctors to prescribe certain drugs more regularly, and how television ads give the general population a false belief in the last risks of many medications.

As with most drugs, a tolerance can be obtained with chronic use and eventually addiction. The difference with LSD, however, is that if administration is ceased for a period of days, the downregulation of the 5-HT2A receptor is reversed and normal function is restored. This indicates that physiological effects of the drug are only temporary and abstinence from use will reverse whatever process have been done. Furthermore, studies have shown that the addictiveness of LSD is on such a low scale that it is considered as being non-addictive. Because the effects of LSD only last as long as the drug is present in the blood stream, combined with the fact that the receptors naturally return to their original state and are ultimately unaltered by the interactions with LSD, indicates that the relative physical danger of LSD is low compared to that of other drugs. The aspect that makes LSD a dangerous drug is the altered state of mind that the individuals possess. Without clear cognitive thoughts and rational, users are prone to either formulating dangerous situations for others or entering perilous situations themselves. In relation to the relative harm of the drug, a comparison was done involving the social harm, individual harm, and dependence of a group of drugs including heroin, cocaine, LSD, cannabis, alcohol, and others. The results of this comparison depicted the dangers of LSD to be lower than the majority of the listed drugs; of the three categories of harm, social harm was

Has there ever been an instance where drugs and alcohol have come up in a conversation or in a problem? People wonder what it is like to try different drugs or to get drunk all the time. Unfortunately, more times than not these thoughts come from teenagers. A major part of this problem is how the American society runs this day in age. Since both parents in a home these days are having to work in order to run the household and so teenagers are left at home alone and vulnerable to worldly ways. The question people should ask is “What they can do to help or to fix it?” Out of all of the problems in our country that might have obvious solutions one of those problems deals with teenagers and how they are involved with drugs and alcohol and how there are solutions to fix how involved they are.

Drugs, it all began in the 1970s. Hippies with their shrooms and weed covered the United States higher than the Empire State Building. After the Vietnam War, soldiers came back with all kinds of drugs, weed was the most common one. The veterans liked weed the most because it helped with their PTSD. Ever since the “Hippie Age” drugs have been a problem. Marijuana is said to be a gateway drug and part of that statement is true. However there are darker drugs out there, worse than shrooms, marijuana, and a majority of opiates. These drugs need to be stopped at all costs to save our country and our children.

“100 people die from drug overdoses every day in the United States.”(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 12, 2011) this statistic is decently high, as it means that for every one hundred thousand people in the United States, about twelve die per day due to high doses of prescription painkillers. The method for controlling these substances varies from extreme control to very lenient, allowing them to be misused, stolen, and in a rare case prescribed unnecessarily. Usually, the system in place can protect people with good sensibilities, by making the prescriptions require a refill as given by their doctor. However this does not stop all possibilities, and can be a problem if the medications are stolen or lost, causing the patient to lack the drugs in an emergency. The system can be improved upon, with more regular doctor visits, and policy changes to how prescriptions are handled in general.

According to my literature review assignment, I decided to chose my topic about “Drugs”. Their history, including how drugs effect the mind and body and how dangerous the consequences could be. We all know in general they are unsafe and dangerous. But do we know thoroughly all about them? These substances have become a very interesting subject for me. I am very interested in abstracting more knowledge about them. Today present it has become very famous the consume of these well known drugs, such as Ecstasy, Heroin, Marijuana, Cocaine, Alcohol and many more. Indeed, we ask our selves, what is so great about them? How is it that individuals get addicted to them so easily?