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Government control is enforced through the use of soma, a hallucinogen that is known to sedate and distract individuals from realizing their enslavement, and this drug is exploited as a way to escape reality. However, this abuse ultimately leads to mental corruption. The majority of society consumes this substance to combat pain, worry, and tension. This narcotic is used in everyday life and “served with coffee” (Huxley 75) to help fill people’s days with mindless acts. Soma gives a feeling of euphoria, often times withdrawing the feelings of depression and illness. “Soma, the perfect pharmaceutical, soothes pain” (McQuail) leaving individuals in a state of pleasure and nirvana. Within the corrupt society, a few characters refuse consumption of the hallucinogen. These individuals are regarded as

The first thing to note, Johann Hari uses pathos to emotionally connect to the viewer, so he can make drugs to not be viewed as

Throughout this essay the sociological imagination is used to analyse the historical, cultural and structural reasons for drug use and abuse. Within this parameter the sociological imagination is applied, using studies research conducted in the United Kingdom, Australia, Russia and the United States. The sociological imagination was defined by Charles Write Mills as a ‘quality of mind’. (Mills quoted by Germov, Poole 2007: 4 ) It is stimulated by an awareness to view the social world by looking at how one’s own personal problems and experiences form a relationship to the wider society. In Victorian society the majority of people believed there was no ‘drug problem.' (Berridge, 1999) The substances used in Britain at the time like opium

Years passed before William B Carpenter composed a theory that “If the will repeatedly permitted a bad behavior, it might become habit-forming, and might ultimately lie beyond the will’s power to check it” (Zieger 1). Theories on addiction have been contrived since the early nineteenth century, and the thought of someone repeatedly utilizing a harmful substance may seem baffling to many. However, it is a complication with which many struggle. It is also common for opioid addicts to turn to the drug in times of fear or anxiety, in order to relieve the distress. Because opioids can entrust users with feelings of relaxation, euphoria, and extreme well-being (Narcotic 1), the effects of the drug are one of the reasons addicts such as Dorian Gray turn to this substance; "that is one of the great secrets of life -- to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul” (Wilde 15). The struggles of Dorian Gray’s and addicts’ lives bequeath them to the level of depravity solely in order to calm themselves. While difficult to believe today, in Victorian Britain it was possible to walk into a chemist’s shop to purchase drugs and substances that are currently considered

Bonnie Green, Chief Estimator, agreed that in a normal year only slight delays might develop due to a shortage of labor. However, she pointed out that for such a large project, the company would have to use unionized employees and that the construction industry labor agreements with New York City were to expire on October 30, 2004. Past experience and current construction activity in the surrounding area indicated that any union tradesman would support a strike against the city. Since this is a public project, she estimates that there is a 50% chance that they would strike this project to gain the attention of the national media.

Medication mishandle—of licit and unlawful medications alike—is a major medicinal and social issue and draws in a considerable measure of research consideration. In any case, the most alluring and most effectively fundable research points are not generally those with the most to add to enhanced social results. In the event that the logical exertion gave careful consideration to the significant open doors for enhanced strategies, its commitment to people in general welfare may be more prominent. The ebb and flow look into motivation around tranquilize strategy focuses on the science, brain science, and humanism of drugtaking and on the current collection of medication control intercessions. Be that as it may, that collection has just

More than 50,000 deaths in America each year are caused by drug overdoses. Americans for years have abused drugs despite the fact that they are illegal to sell and use in the United States. In Shakespeare 's time as well as present day many illegal substances have circulated throughout history and are able to affect and alter personalities and decisions made by those in society. Notwithstanding the fact that these substances and drugs are illegal those who feel that there is no other way to go about a problem or their life will do what it takes to obtain these substances that they believe will cure their problems without thinking about the consequences. Through the use of these illegal substances, one can become irrational and ignorant

The government in this “Brave New World” have completely taken control of their people leaving them under their command and every control. The controllers have substituted a drug called “Soma” that leaves the people feeling complete happiness which then leads them to forget all their problems and worries putting the humans in a trance. When a problem begins to arise amongst people “Soma” is always the answer one stated, “Why you don’t take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You’d forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you’d be jolly. So jolly,” (Huxley 92). By giving the humans in this society a drug that washes away all their pains and worries it also causes them to lose all of their feelings in which a normal human would inhibit. Losing and not having feelings due to a drug given by the government to the people is a way of brainwashing their people because the humans no longer have the control over their bodies that they once did. Bromige describes the corruption in feelings and choices describing,

The public decides whether they want to lead into a life of drugs because they have the freedom of choice. Jonas from The Giver feels the need for personal freedoms in a world with strict rules and sameness. Lois Lowry said “We gained control of many things. But, we had to let go of others.” (p.95).

Upon the reality of ever-present street violence rests the pieces, struck together with the unhinged furor of human suffering, of a truth that has come to pass unnoticed. It is while staring straight into the visceral scorn of substance abuse that humans learn it: that addiction is not merely some crime or failure of character and morals, but rather a neurotic compulsion motivated from feelings of alienation. The notion that drugs should be deemed, as Richard Nixon and Felipe Calderon insisted, “public enemy number one” is misguided at best, and profoundly immoral at its extremes. It cannot be sustained that the physical object that a drug, or drugs in general, are themselves criminal offences,

Brave New World has been relevant to moral society ever since it was first published in 1932. From genetic engineering to class struggles, Brave New World examines a future where embryos are chemically treated to ensure they fit in a class, and then babies are hypnotized into believing governmental doctrines as pure truth. The use of Soma, a narcotic used as an instant anti-depressant, casts a worrying shadow on the chemical treatment of clinical depression to an extent. These are ideas that have been explored before, but as society shifts the importance and relevance of these key themes shift alongside it.

Conventional wisdom has it that in order to stop an individual from engaging in potentially unhealthy behaviors, particularly drug use, legal punishments would be an effective deterrent for such actions. This stance parallels deontological ethics and suggests that a person's adherence to rules calls for the judgment of their morality. When in action, deontology is destructive to the lives of those who engage in drug use. Typically, the user is punished with incarceration, which in almost every case is more dangerous than the use of drugs itself.

Since the dawn of society there have been people whose behavior differed from the rest of society. There are many different theories and perspectives on why people do things like abuse drugs, and although we my never have all the answers, sociology still help us to understand the problem better.

Since Talcott Parson is a functionalist who believes each individual needs to contribute to the collective whole to maintain a functional society, he would view deviance as harmful. However, Parsons would also think of deviance as useful, as it reinsures the collective’s norms. On the other hand, Herbert Blumer, a symbolic interactionism, would propose that individuals have given drugs diverse and subjective symbols; some might view them as blissful others might think of them as dangerous and repulsive. However, Blumer would also say that one’s interpretation of a symbol is not permanent therefore, people’s ideas around deviance and drugs could change. Lastly, George C. Homans, who is an exchange/rational choice theorist, would say deviance

Y/N: "You're joking, right? I didn't work my ass off to be a babysitter Shae!" I said looking down at the folder in my hands that she just handed me. Reading and skimming through the information not really paying attention.