Our 21st Century Drug

In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, there is a drug used and mentioned throughout the story called Soma. The characters have been conditioned by birth that Soma is always the answer when you feel alone or sad. This drug is used so people can go on "holidays" from their reality and is used as payment for the lower caste groups. People want Soma because they go on these highs and live in their "Heaven" to escape reality. After all, they do call Soma "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects"(Huxley 54). Soma becomes a tool to control the people in society.

The textbook pointed out that drug prevention and drug ________ might have different goals and use different approaches.

According to “The Apocalypse Now : The Lost War on Drugs”, the United States federal government began to become tough on “crime” especially drug offenses in the 1970’s under President Richard Nixon. Nixon stated that “drugs were public enemy #1” and that he was going to be tough on this crime. As a result, state level government began to create policies that were strict on drug offenses causing minimal sentencing for minor drug offenses. Instead of going after the root of the problem which was preventing drugs from entering the country, these laws targeting low income communities with predominantly black and Latino residents. In addition, these merciless laws were the cause of the significant amount of people, specifically men of color, in prison during the 1980’s “war on drugs” in the United States.

Introduction - Use of psychoactive substances for recreational purposes is not a radically new social issue. In fact, history tells us that almost every society had their own pharmacopeia of herbs, potions, and substances that not only contributed to healing, but also allowed the user to escape reality (Schules 1992, 4-5). However, it is the contemporary use of psychoactive drugs purchased through illicit or illegal channels and used by persons neither prescribed nor in quantities larger than necessary that defines modern drug abuse (Robins 2006). Prior to World War I, substances like morphine, heroin, and cocaine were available in the major American cities, particularly those with active international ports. For instance, when Chinese immigrants were first imported to work in the mines and railroads during the early 1800s, they brought opium to America. It was the leisure class, who began to experiment with this drug, and, as in Europe, many major U.S. cities had so-called opium dens. In addition, there were a substantial number of "society women" who ended up addicted because their doctor prescribed this drug to deal with female histrionics or to "cure" an excessive sexual appetite (Johnson 2002). Within major cities, this problem began to spill over into other groups: prostitutes, child laborers, orphans, and even men and women of lower social classes seeking to escape the harshness of their lives (Courtwright 2002, 3-19). Between the widespread use and general

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Right now someone is being arrested for being in possession or under the influence of an illegal narcotic. We are in a war right now, a war with 23.5 million Americans in the crossfire. A battle is happening against “America’s public enemy number one”, drug abuse, proclaimed by President Richard Nixon in 1971. Fighting the war on drugs is charged to the police officers around America who go out every day and work to curb the use of drugs in this country. One big problem is the drug problem’s direct relationship to crime. When people become addicted to drugs they spend all the money and drain all the resources from their life’s to fund their habit. There have been many news stories about people killing their own family members to get money for drugs.

Sometimes in life there are some things we cannot avoid, all we can do is reflect on our actions. In one scene in the movie 25th hour directed by Spike Lee the underlying effects of crime are shown, whether it be drug dealing or terrorism. In the beginning scene of the movie the point of the man asking for drugs was to how badly others were affected by Monty’s dealing. A man goes to Monty very desperately and begs him for drugs. The man's body language and behavior show how his terrible addiction, he was very anxious and distressed. He was shaking, stuttering, and he was filthy. This shows that there are deeper issues when it comes to dealing, Monty was making money but people had an easy access to drugs. These people probably had crippling

The time Traveller's think that Eloi are the sole descendants of humanity. This relates to Darwin's theory that most individuals produced in a given population than can possibly survive in that environment, thereby setting up a struggle for survival. This goes to show the similarities of these theories that these two different species of Eloi and humans have the same or similar characteristics as on another based of surviving in an environment.

Controlled substances, or harmful drugs, have been an issue to the United States since they began outlawing them. The first outlawed drug was in San Francisco in 1875, and it prohibited people from smoking opium (dried latex from the opium poppy). Soon after, more drugs came along, and they too became outlawed by the government. Cocaine, heroin, DMT (Dimethyltryptamine), and marijuana are some of the few substances that have been outlawed in the United States. However, these banned drugs are making a bigger problem now than before they were outlawed. Not only are they still being used and sold by several people today, but crime rates related to drugs have been rising steadily. People are becoming more interested in drugs as they hear about

The character, referred to in the book as The Time Traveller, sees the two groups as evolutions of humans, who have evolved into two different forms. Overall, this makes the two groups very similar to those of today’s time. This can be concluded through the fact that the Eloi are lazy and lack knowledge. However, they are very beautiful are civilized. This leads

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.

Drugs are all fun and games until you watch someone you love turn into some you have never seen before. I was only 5 years old when i woke up one morning to get up for school to only see something laying on the table i knew that it wasn’t something good and it didn’t seem normal and since i had to take care of myself and make my own school lunch i knew right where the little bags where and gloves to be able to pick it up so it wouldn’t get on me, almost everything i picked up was something that she used the night before just to feel her little high so from then i decided to put the pill,needles,lighter and everything in a bag and take it to school, i knew it was brandi’s and i knew she needed help. I made sure i was quicker than lighting to get everything put in my bookbag so not only she wouldn’t hear me and wake up and so i didn’t have to deal with her. I remember every conversation i had with her it wasn’t ever her talking it was always the pills or the dope talking for her.

Bobina, Katrina. "Wall-e Essay: Technology vs. Humankind." My Life in Just a Few Words. 28 Nov. 2011. https://kreppell.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/wall-e-essay-technology-vs-humankind/. Accessed 20 Mar. 2017. What did we ever do before technology? We should live our own lives without the use of technology but have become so dependent on it, it’s like an addiction. “Wall-e” is a Pixar movie based on humans that have destroyed the planet because they don’t care for the environment. Now, we tend to not be able to go a whole day without a phone or laptop. Like the humans in the movie Wall-e, we are controlled and driven by technology. Don’t get me wrong, technology has help us in many good ways, but it has been a major distraction. When was the last time you went outside and spoke to a neighbor? People do not go out and socialize face to face anymore. Instead, they hook up to Wi-Fi and get on a social media site, email, or text. Faces are always buried into phone screens. If we were ever to have robots do everything for us, cutting grass, picking up trash, etc., and technology were to fail us, people will be too lazy to pick back up where we left off. The reliability of technology and the effects it has on us and our environment has got to come to an end soon or later, or we will no longer have a planet that is fit for the human population to live. I believe that this