Persuasive Essay On Prescription Drug Abuse

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!

Imagine laying on the floor in your own pool of sweat—miserable, your mind bouncing off the walls while the cloud of your darkest thoughts looms over you. Teeth chattering anxiously, waiting to receive the next second, minute, hour of painless bliss. This—this is the life of an addict; does this horror appear to be a choice or more like a disease haunting the mind of the user? Despite the fact a choice was needed to initiate the result, addiction itself is a debilitating disease NOT a choice due to initial influences and anatomical changes to the brain.

Experimentation, addiction, death. From school assemblies to health class, these three words have been drilled into the minds of children and teens about the usage of drugs. Yet, there are still many kids and teens that want to and actually do experiment with drugs. While there is no single reason as to why a child might start using illegal substances, many common issues that cause teenagers to become substance abusers are issues that parents can solve, therefore the best way to persuade a child not to use drugs is by persuading the parent to be a more powerful influence.

Substance abuse is a taboo in society. Its often a topic which is not talked about. Not many people admit their battle with substance abuse. The few, that do share their story, often do it to bring awareness. However, the amount of people who suffer from this disease is skyrocketing.

On Friday February 10, 2017, Kentucky Emergency Services responded to fifty-two calls that had come in regarding people overdosing on heroin. This calls started to heavily come in in about people overdosing beginning at midnight, through eight in the morning. In the past week, the Louisville emergency spokesman, Mitchel Burmeister, stated that there had been twenty-five reported overdoses from the same drug in a thirty-two hour span the week before.

Since the beginning of time, humans have had vices, many of them psychoactive drugs. Similarly, mankind has always had a history of prejudice and mistreatment of groups with different beliefs or different skin color. In America, legislation of these drugs has often been used as a method to control minority groups. From alcohol in the 1800’s through opium in the mid 1800’s to cocaine in the early 1900’s and marijuana in the 1930’s, drug legislation has largely been driven by groups of people with prejudices against certain minority and ethnic groups. Through gaining support in Congress and often the backing of big industry money, these groups would push to ban or restrict these drugs that were usually associated with a minority group they opposed.

Just like alcohol, marijuana also plays a big part in violent crime. Studies show “Continued use of cannabis causes violent behaviour as a direct result of changes in brain function that are caused by smoking weed over many years.” (BBC, 2016)

Today, drug abuse has become a controversial subject where various individuals have different views. Substance abuse is a substantial dilemma among people and easily spread in schools, work environments, and even in homes. Drug abuse starts in utterly reasons, but can begin in adolescence with peer pressure or friends using them, family environment that has violent, physical, or emotional abuse, and inherited genetics with mental health conditions as depression, anxiety, or ADHD (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2014). Drugs become misuse whether it’s in recreational, narcotics or alcohol. According to National Institute on Drug Abuse, Substance abuse is accountable for and involvement in nearly 60,000 deaths annually in the United

Drug users are not bad people regardless of the resions for their affliction. It’s time the world starts seeing drug use for what it is, a medical issue and not a criminal one. As off today the war on drugs has not only failed at everything it set out to accomplish but in fact as done the complete opposite. Nobody benefits from the current laws except the those selling the drugs, criminals are making more money than they know what to do with whale’s non-violent offenders flood our prisons no different than rapists and murders. Even those who entirely opposed to all drug use and feels it brings nothing but pain should want it legalised. Prohibition dosnt work and only serves to make things worse.

They are our family members, neighbors, and friends; they are in need of our support, not our condemnation. What good are we doing as a community if we treat those who are suffering from drug or alcohol addiction as burdens? Their lives are worth no less than anyone else’s. When we imprison these men and women convicted of drug charges, it makes no progress towards targeting the source of the problem. Instead, we are giving the impression that addicts are scum, to be kept locked away in the same place as our rapists, con artists, and murderers. Drug and alcohol addiction are sicknesses, not a flaw in one’s character, and should be handled as such.

→ Imagine being a patient who suffers from the shooting pains of a chronic nerve condition your doctor prescribes you medical marijuana to ease the pain.. However, due to the various state laws in regards to marijuana possession, you are stopped and ultimately imprisoned due to possession of a Schedule 1 drug and are forced to pay a fine… but you realize in the cell right next to you that a man caught with public misdemeanor charges after snorting some cocaine has to pay a smaller fine…

A Roswell college student with a 3.7 grade-point average blows her tuition on drugs and is arrested for forging prescriptions. Drug-free: 390 days. An Alpharetta mom so amped up on meth she spent eight hours cleaning her oven with Q-tips. Now drug-free: 311 days. An Atlanta man so fixated on his next hit that he "literally walked over a dead body one day to get to the dope man's porch." Drug- free: 290 days. The reason I chose this topic, is because these 3 people have been clear of drugs for AT LEAST 290 days. Now the reasoning is because there is now drug rehabs helping people stop taking drugs. But the problem is, there’s not enough, I want to make sure as I'm growing up i’m surrounded by responsible people (Not saying I don’t want to live a perfect little life with NO mistakes, because mistakes happen, I just want it to be a mistake that doesn’t repeat itself). And the thing is, these people aren’t bad at all, they’re just addicted, and I want to help solve what we can do to help. Why do people take drugs? How easy is it to be addicted to drugs? What can we as a society solve drug addictions? This problem can be solved, it’s very simple actually. All we have to do is keep making drugs Illegal and keep making more and more rehabs, I mean above is evidence that it actually WORKS so all we need to do is make sure there is plenty of room to keep solving the issue.

Haven’t you always been fascinated that something our government restricts and makes illegal could in fact save and help many people who suffer and are in need of help for medical reasons such as cancer patients, aids patients, and those who suffer from depression. How can something be illegal if it helps 7.6 million people who approximately die just from cancer on a yearly basis’s? 23.5 million Americans that are affected from an auto immune disease. Auto immune disease’s is when the body starts to destroy itself; it’s also the leading cause of death as well as disability. Along with all cancer patients and auto immune suffers there are 33.4 million Americans suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome or better known as aids and approximately 2 million people die a year to having aids or other related illnesses. These illness have become an epidemic and there increasing the pharmaceutical sales as well help keep insurance providers in business.

You are sleeping, peacefully in your bed on a cold winter night. You wake up, groggy, and glance at your clock, it reads 1:43 a.m. Six more hours, you think to yourself, as you fall back into your deep sleep. But in 17 minutes, your life will change. Due to an increase in the availability of drugs, the number of millennials using and abusing drugs has increased substantially over the last decade. In turn, this is costing the United States billions of dollars, but that has not stopped anyone. The diversely of drugs is growing, with certain drugs becoming more and more popular by year. We know the causes of abuse, and we know that rehabilitation combats the abuse. But do you fully understand drug abuse, the deep blackness that takes over millions of people’s lives? Let me tell you more about the causes, statistics, diversity in abuse, side effects, and rehabilitation pertaining to drug abuse in the United States of America.

Everyone has a dream, everyone has goals, whether it’s being a doctor, an anesthesiologist, a teacher, or even a goal such as making the basketball team at your school. When drugs are involved or brought into the picture, it makes completing these goals and dreams so much harder. Drug addiction not only destroys those that use the drugs, but also the lives of people close to the addict. Some of the illegal drugs are marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, LSD, crystal meth and heroin. Drugs are consumed in different ways, by inhaling, taking by mouth, injecting, applying on skin, and smoking. When a person is addicted to a drug, the drug becomes so important that the person cannot manage without it.