Persuasive Essay On Drugs

The victims have a master inside of them who controls every inch of their mind, body, and soul. It only takes a few slip ups to fall deep into the hole of despair. He deceives them but also brings them happiness. The victims have a mental battle with themselves but he is ruthless and shows no mercy. As they continue to disregard the few careless encounters, their condition deteriorates and leads to an addicted relationship with him. Society nowadays has become corrupted with addiction. Drug abuse has become prevalent and is impossible to avoid. There is so much influence around substance abuse that people are usually sucked into it before they learn the dangers of it. Nowadays, people are proposing solutions for this spreading epidemic and suggesting ways to treat people who are already affected. Addiction should be treated as a learning disorder that exacerbates as people mature rather than as there is something wrong with their character. The best feasible solution for treating this epidemic is early intervention. By doing this, potential victims can be educated about the dangers of it and be on the path to a healthy lifestyle.

In life many people struggle with problems, and instead of them addressing the problem their way to get their mind off of it is by abusing drugs that gets them to stop thinking about it. These people often struggle with this on an everyday basis and it is killing our society little by little. Many people are dying everyday due to opioids and everyone as a community should help put a stop to it!

The systematic scheduling of drugs in the United States is arbitrary which leads to a discriminative social injustice. Some psychedelic substances such as Psilocybin are schedule 1 drugs, while alcohol and nicotine are legal. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) both alcohol and nicotine are proven to be harmful and addictive (2017). Conversely, Psychedelic substances have not been proven to be addictive. This equates to a social injustice that discriminates over someone who may prefer the effects of psilocybin to nicotine, even under the science that has shown nicotine and alcohol have a higher potential for abuse. Unfortunately, many political factors come into play regarding the legal status of drugs and industries such as the pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol industries, who harbor the most money and have an influence in the legality of drugs whether they are safe or not. While legalizing psychedelic substances would most likely cut into profits for these large industries they would bring about economic benefits as well.

The use of methadone does not provide a solution for junkies to escape the chaotic life of addiction. Instead, it only feeds the addiction of the person that is being treated. In attempts to prevent withdrawal symptoms and eliminate the drug hunger,methadone treatment facilities offer a legal method for an addict to obtain their fix.

Prescription drug abuse and overdose-related deaths have reached an epidemic level in the United States and are an urgent public health concern. To combat this opioid crisis, in 2016 Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) was signed into law. CARA authorizes grants to increase access to treatment services and opioid reversal drugs such as Naloxone, strengthen the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), expand prevention and educational efforts. In spite of the extensive range of activities authorized by CARA to control this epidemic, the US has experienced an increase in the number of the opioid overdose-related emergency visit from 2016 to September 2017. Therefore, after considering the policy options to reform this act, the most apropos solution would be the universal mandate of PDMP use. Mandating PDMPs can reduce prescription overdose and misuse of opioids. In order to ensure the impact of this program, PDMPs will have to be implemented on a Federal level. This will essentially make sure that all states taking part in the program are responsible for keeping track of registered physicians and dispensers under the Prescription

A controversial subject many Americans are constantly at battle over is legalizing drugs. Some experts have the opinion that drugs should be legalized for medical treatment, and for help with severe illness. Other experts argue that this will have a bad effect due to overdosing and addiction, and also the adverse affect on teens. I do not think that drugs should be legalized but they should allow people with serious medical conditions to use these illegal drugs. Legalizing drugs would only create and even bigger drug abuse situation, and especially for juveniles. Legalizing drugs would also create the question of what to do with criminals who are already incarcerated for this offense. There are surveys, which give statistics on crime, and how crime rates are affected by the use of drugs. For example, there is one survey called the “National

“In 2002, 404,000 people used heroin in the United States. By 2016, there were 948,000 people. This is a 135% increases in the past 14 years” (Kounang). I decided to research about heroin, because I want to know what heroin is and which celebrities have done it and survived or died. I knew it was an addictive drug that many people overdose on. There was a lot of misconceptions that I had about heroin. Originally I thought heroin users become addicted instantly. I still have some questions about heroin. Why is heroin so popular? Who has done it? Even though some people think heroin is not bad, people should not take heroin because it's a highly effective drug and tons of people are dying from overdosing.

In the United States of America, there is prescription drug abuse epidemic that continues to be a growing concern. Prescription drugs cause a large amount of overdoses and result in an abundant amount of deaths each year. A government study conducted shows this epidemic is scarily on the rise, “A recent government study found a 400% increase in prescription drug abuse between 1998 and 2008” (Schreiner 531). The excessive use of prescription drug abuse is leading to nonmedical use of the drugs, and creating addiction. Furthermore society is paying an extreme amount of money in this battle. With this drug abuse on the rise, legislators must create a law preventing doctors and pharmacists from over prescribing prescription medications as well a law to require they both participate in drug monitoring programs to prevent drug abuse. Now is the time that doctors and the pharmaceutical industry must be held accountable for their role in causing one of America’s worst addictions. The over medication of prescription drugs in the United States must be brought to an end by legislators creating laws to stop

Beyond the year 1985 to present the Food and Drugs Administration have been approving, administering and withdrawing drugs from pharmacies that have had death threating side effects among us; these side effects have led to injuries, death and major surgeries that have been affecting hundred thousands of individuals worldwide. There are over 100 drugs being issued among us year by year that would be considered a “dangerous drug”. Dangerous prescription drugs have been continuously manufactured year by year while we have no idea of the discomfort and unbearable diseases they may cause.

Appearing in the 1970s, a campaign was introduced to forward the prohibition of drugs and reduce the large illegal drug trade. Dubbed the "War on Drugs", this movement has been unsuccessful. In a study produced by The International Centre for Science and Drug Policy states that "prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis decreased by 81%, 80% and 86%, respectively, between 1990 and 2007, whereas average purity increased by 60%, 11% and 161%, respectively." Despite active government involvement, there will always be a demand of drugs in America. Legalization of these substances will end issues brought up by the War on Drugs, bring new economic opportunities, and reduce the prison population.

Drug addiction is a complex problem in society today. Addiction is a condition that extremely affects the person’s mind and body. Addiction also has wide sweeping effects on that person’s social connection and functioning. Unfortunately, many addicts don’t realize the social influence of their addiction until much of their functioning has greatly deteriorated.

President Donald Trump said a more powerful law enforcement reaction is required to tackle the opioid epidemic; talking at his New Jersey golf club and fringed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price and provisional Director of National Drug Control Policy, Richard Baum. "It's a problem the likes of which we have never seen. Meanwhile, the overall drug prosecutions have gone down in recent years," Trump discussed opioid abuse.

In the twenty-first century, we hear a lot about how smoking cigarettes can kill you, and that the secondhand smoke can involuntarily kill those around you, or how the drinking and driving combination killed people in an accident. Scales, charts, commercials, and yearly stats are all put on display to let people know how dangerous these things are, but what about the illegal drug, weed? There has never been a headline on somebody dying of a marijuana overdose, or studies done to prove all the severely harmful effects of smoking weed. This may simply be because the drug is illegal, but studies have been abundant on drugs like cocaine, heroin, or Ecstasy to find the harmful effects of those drugs. Without the research and evidence to prove weed should be an illegal drug, we must rely on what government agencies have given us. Many cases involved with marijuana are mostly terrible situations that happened because the consumer of the weed had no knowledge of the drug. With such harmful substances already legally sold and consumed daily at the free will of the people, weed should be legalized and added to these substances. Tobacco, barley, and hemp/cannabis are all plants that were completely useless until some person decided to give them recreational uses; tobacco and marijuana were dried up and stuffed into pipes to be burned and inhaled, but barley was fermented and turned into a drinkable substance. All three substances came from the earth and use by humans for recreational

The War on Drugs is a deep rooted controversial campaign of prohibition and military aid that has been debated for years. We wonder if the war will ever come to an end, and if there’s a liable solution. The “war” will never end, and the only way to maintain balance in our society is by not letting any laws on drugs change. We can make a positive change within America as the first step. Legalization of drugs, increased taxes for military support, and more criminals on the streets are all examples of why “The War on Drugs” is affecting us. Over a period of time now, The United States has been enabling the war, by allowing legalization of Marijuana to take place in certain states. Winning the war, seems like an impossible task. But losing completely would diminish security and stability in our world. Applying more action and recognition will increase our awareness to stay away from this loss, and would better our economy as a whole. To better end “The War on Drugs” as a whole, we need to focus on winning the battle here in the United States before other countries.

We have become so oblivious to the fact that the War on Drugs is simply failing in every way possible. In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one in the United States.” He created the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention to prohibit drugs and drug trafficking in the United States; but, his War on Drugs was unsuccessful. According to Associate Professor of economics at GMU, Christopher J. Coyne, “With many states moving toward legislation or decriminalization of some substances, and other nations moving to legalize drugs altogether, America’s drug policy is long overdue” (Coyne 3). After over 40 years of this War on Drugs, America is no closer to a drug-free society. We need to end the War on Drugs and decriminalize all drugs as Stossel says because it takes away from our human rights, is a waste of money, and is an undefeatable war.