Overdosing Research Papers

From 2001 to 2005 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports on average more than 79,000 deaths per year was caused by excessive alcohol use. (CDC, “Vital Signs”) Excessive drinking includes binge drinking, heavy drinking and any drinking by pregnant women or minors. On the other hand, the CDC does not have a category for deaths caused by the use of marijuana. Statistically, death directly from marijuana overdose is extremely rare. However, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting data, there were a total of 1.5 million drug arrests nationwide in 2011 and out of those arrests around 750,000 were for marijuana alone. (FBI, “Person’s Arrested”) While both alcohol and marijuana should not be taken with any other drug and getting behind the wheel while drunk or high poses significant risk to everyone. Alcohol is still vastly greater in number when it comes to death than marijuana but then again one is legal while the other one is not.

Drugs during the 1860's to 1960's weren't exposed or widely used in our society, it was also not seen as "getting out-of-hand". The War on Drugs was declared in 1971 by President Nixon, this allowed political bias to increase the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants. With this intention, many of members of society that were discriminated against (e.g. African American and Anti-War community) began to rebel even more, which includes an indulgence of abusing

For some people, the use of alcohol and drugs can lead to a chronic disease or long-term illness that has serious medical and social consequences. Are you feeling down, left out, trying to fit in? Addiction begins, so easily and takes over without any warning. It can begin with a bad day, consequences, peer pressure, or a teen trying to find a way to fit in. According to results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), “an estimated 2.4 million Americans used prescription drugs non-medically for the first time within the past year, which averages to approximately 6,600 initiates per day”. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “In 2014, 47,055 people died from drug overdoses. Since 2000, opioid drug

"The only way marijuana can kill you is if you take 25 pounds of it and you throw it out of a CIA drug plane and it hits you in the F@#%!N$ head. That's how you die from marijuana." -According to Joe Rogan, in "The Culture High". Americans consume 75% of the prescription drugs produced in the world, considering the United States is only about 5% of the population("What You Need To Know"). It seems that doctors in America are prescribing an excessive amount of pills to the American people, and many times when they don't need these pills. Many marijuana patients, on the other hand, have reported using fewer pharmaceuticals or no pharmaceuticals at all after starting a marijuana therapy program for headaches, nausea, bowel distress, muscle spasms, fibromyalgia, or chronic pain ("Patients Replace Prescription Drugs"). States that have already legalized medical marijuana have a 25% decrease in the opioid overdose mortality rate("What You Need To Know"). In 1899 when Bayer aspirin came out, marijuana was listed to cure over 100 diseases and was considered to be the best painkiller until prohibition in 1937, caused it to become illegal ("Marijuana Safer"). Aspirin has been around for now over 100 years and still kills over 500 people a year annually, which is incomparable to the over 5,000 years marijuana has been around with zero recorded deaths ("Marijuana Safer"). Marijuana listed side effects are paranoia, laughter, hunger, introspection,depression, creative impulse, tiredness, euphoria, and forgetfulness. Unfortunately, Aspirin side effects are too long to be stated. Before the prohibition in 1937 marijuana was considered one of the most effective and diverse medicines. After the start of prohibition, the United States government told public and private libraries to purge all their information on

The recreational drug use became fairly common in the United States during the late 1960s. As a result, many people went into the hospitals

People don’t understand the seriousness of being under the influence of drugs of any kind or bad people. Takes a lot of work to realize that you have many bad choices in till you get to the very bottoms. For example, in the article America in Drugs: A Visual Guide Christen Jen said: “Drugs are the leading cause of accidental deaths in this country”. I think what she is trying to say is that none tries to kill themselves on purpose overdosing themselves with drug, what happens is that people abuse the drugs then and they become addicted without even realizing it. In most cases sometimes is too late to ask for help. What is the definition of a drug: Dictionary.com? Dictionary, (2016). Web. Oct 2016 “A chemical substance used in the treatment,

Because of the excess amount of methamphetamine the Japanese people were able to obtain it easily and more than likely cheaply because even the demand was high, the supply was high to so the equilibrium was off. Then in the 1950s methamphetamine was prescribed to help fight depression and aid in weight loss. ("The History of Crystal Methamphetamine - Drug-Free World.") This also created a situational factor that influenced an epidemic with methamphetamines now being used by college students, truck drivers, and athletes. ("The History of Crystal Methamphetamine - Drug-Free World.") Then in the 1960s the increased availability of injectable methamphetamine caused another epidemic of abuse. ("The History of Crystal Methamphetamine - Drug-Free

These drugs were obtained from none other than family or friends and overdoses and deaths were documented, and the tendency to take various prescription drugs led to frequent emergency rooms visits or silent death. Marijuana addiction seemed to increase and treatment programs began. 25 % of the world just used marijuana and were criminal offenders. Referrals from criminal justice also deemed and appropriated the use of marijuana. Self- referrals used marijuana more frequently, and impairments followed them due to their hefty and persistent use. Evidence piled up regarding the use of marijuana and mental health problems. Bongs and blunts made marijuana even more potent and contributed to such mental health problems.

I live in Taunton, Massachusetts and for this assignment I chose the health problem heroin overdoses. On Facebook there is a group with the name “Taunton DP Scanner Talk”, which I am a member of. People from the Taunton area and Taunton residents that are listening to the scanner and are being updated, by this what is happening in the town of Taunton. Unfortunately, a lot of times you will hear on the police scanner that another overdose has occurred and that the police is on the wat to the scene. Some of the risk factors of heroin overdoses are that people who use heroin and “shoot up” unintentionally poising themselves, which is the leading cause of fatal deaths. Their intentions are to get high and not to kill themselves. Opioid patience that misuse the substance may also at risk of an overdose. Not enough doctors warn their patients about the risk of an overdose when prescribing opioids. Also people who misuse the substance also have a greater risk of getting HIV, since many users share their needles. Drinking a lot of alcohol is also a risk factor, which

This article by Rudd et al. describes the statistics of drug overdoses between 2000 and 2014 in the United States, and highlights the dramatic increase particularly with opioid overdoses. The article also demonstrates that this increasing epidemic does not discriminate with gender or race. However, the article points out

This article by The Washington Post reports on 7 year old girl who had been trying to wake her parents for more than a day. When she couldn’t wake her parents she took it upon herself to get dressed on Monday morning and went to school. On the bus ride home she told the driver she’d been unable to wake the adults in her house. After arriving at the scene authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses. Also inside the home were three other children. This case is part of an epidemic of drug overdoses and their impact on families around the Allegheny area. There were 422 opioid overdose deaths in Allegheny County last year the largest death toll in the county’s history (Citation).

Would you like to know about drugs the sixties? Hippies smoked weed (marijuana).teens shot heroin… And sadly 4% of Americans used at least one drug at every day of their life In the 1972, 60% of Americans was physically addictive. In the 1960’s were the heyday of illegal drug use -- but historical data indicates they probably weren’t. Surveys show that drug abuse was rare, just as drug prevention programs

Furthermore, it has never been proven that anyone has died of a marijuana overdose unlike most drugs. In an article written by the Huffington Post titled ‘How Many People Have Died From Marijuana they stated, “a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount of THC in a joint in order to be at risk of dying.” Basically saying it’s highly unlikely that someone could die from Marijuana consumption. Also in an article made by the CDC titled ‘Drug Overdose” it stated that 44% of Americans in the U.S. die from an overdose on prescription pills, and over the counter pills everyday. Whereas through the evidence gathered there, hasn’t been one proven case of someone dying of Marijuana overdose. According to another article located on the Leafscience Website titled “Can you overdose on Marijuana?” has shown important evidence. It showed that

Drugs are harmful, dangerous, and addictive, and there are many different kinds of them. Drugs are not just common in America, but all around the world today. Being more popular than alcohol and Vape, drugs affect the brain, causing its consumers to be unaware and completely unable to think or process things normally. Drug abuse, not only affecting its consumers greatly, hurt their friends, families, and children and cause millions of deaths every year. In America, drug abuse causes four thousand seven hundred and ninety deaths per year, and eighty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four deaths are caused by drug abuse in the world alone. Unfortunately, the number of drug abusers and consumers are increasing by the year, and the number of lives lost because of this invention is immeasurable. Like all addictions, drug dealing is common, destructive, and leaves bitter consequences to the consumer and the world around

One person can dangerously over-use drugs yet never become dependent on a drug while another person has an experience and he's hooked up to that drug. for many people who do drugs going to lead them to death. Being dependent on a drug will affect your relationships with friend’s family as well your employment .drugs also gives a guessed number 444,000 deaths by overdose per year .what can we do to help homeless people who most gamble and use illegal drugs. . In a survey in 2007, it was shown that 19.9 million Americans or eight percent of people of the group twelve or older usedillegal drugs in the month before the survey. The drugs that fascinate man most the ones that give a reason to do something us with an idea to drive us to murder are those that affect the brain and the spinal cord on which it rests Some of these drugs include alcohol drug that gives you energy, nicotine pain-killing gas high in the sky procaine LSD marijuana cocaine and female hero.