Should Drugs Use Be A Hate For Drugs?

One day you are living a beautiful and content lifestyle, and then next day you are lying on the floor dead without telling your friends and family you loved them. This could happen to you, if you do not avoid the dodgy lifestyle of a drug user and abuser. Every day drugs, such as: heroine are misused in-order to get a certain feeling called a high. The high is suppose to make you feel good or forget about the world’s everyday problems, but in most cases, the use of these powerful drugs end up hurting, or even killing the users. The PSA “Best High” explains how heroine can easily be influenced into using for amusement. In the Public Service Announcement (PSA), “Best High,” produced by DrugFreeWorldInc, the company is reenacting a story about

In 31BC Augustus won the battle of Actium against his former colleague in the triumvirate, but now bitter rival, Antony and the queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, after having been in the triumvirate since 43BC.

The Renaissance Treatment Center is a place where drug users and abusers who are involved with the criminal justice system comes to get help. This organization has opened my eyes wide enough, to realize the negative effects that illicit drugs have on society as a whole. I realized that just one drink, one puff, or one injection, can change a person’s life forever. And most definitely not in a positive way. This was one of the many moments when I realized that many people are exposed without even realizing it. Especially teenagers and the uneducated who are oblivious to the harm that illicit drugs can cause. All things considered, I want to help with eradicating the use of all illicit drug, which is one reason that has confirmed my interest for working towards a Master’s degree in the field of social

Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs. Drug addiction is a complex chronic disease that causes impairment with the mind to express emotion, engage into physical activities and simply being one’s self. In fact, through scientific research, people understand more about how drugs work in the brain more than ever, and they also know that drug addiction can be successfully treated with some help from those who want change in the death rates amongst drug addict Americans. No one will ever truly understand why a person performs such deadly behaviors, but this is their way of crying out for help. It is time to take a stand and help those in need of escape from drugs and

Pulling into a run-down neighborhood that you will never see again, meeting someone you have only spoken briefly to over text or through a prepaid call. Moving to the door the nerves kick in, Are the drugs tainted? Will I be shot, raped, mugged? Will I even make it out of this house alive? These are all real feelings of someone who uses drugs. Ross Ulbricht created the Silk Road to make a safer environment for those who choose the freedom to use drugs, “A frictionless marketplace where everyone had freedom as long as it didn’t impinge on someone else’s freedom.”(1) Keeping up with other countries the government could have profited from Silk Road because being Free is the Libertarian way.

There is a common misconception held by society of drug dealers as violent criminals , shady anti- social characters , which is further propagated by the media . But how true is this type of portrayal? These traits are existent , but it isn’t that black and white. According to Shook, Vaughn, Goodkind & Johnson (2013), only little is known about the character traits of drug dealers . The drug market has also changed in recent years with prescription drugs gaining popularity over street drugs ( article 7), which could mean a different type of drug-dealer emerging. In general Three personality types of drug dealers have been determined that differ in their deviant behaviour and drug use. (article 2 ) Specifically the age group of 12-17 has been widely studied in regards to drug dealing, as they are a group that is at high risk and there is evidence that drug- trafficking in adolescents has increased ( article 5). In an american survey, The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), it has been estimated that 8% of 12-17 year olds have sold drugs before. So to prevent adolescents from later life drug dealing, they are the ones that have to be targeted with prevention measures.

Should drug laws remain restrictive? Well as we learned in the chapter three power point "Globally, 4% to 6% of the world’s population between the ages of 15 and 64 (over 200 million people) reported using at least one illicit drug in the previous year (2010)." These statistics are striking nearly 200 million people across the world have used an illicit drug in the past year. It is logical to assume that number is likely even higher because some people do not want to admit to drug use. so if restrictive drug laws aren’t preventing drug use what is the point of keeping drug laws so restrictive?

America is spending 15 billion dollars every year to fund and support the War on Dugs (“Drug War Statistic,” 2015). I agree and support that America should end its War on Drugs. This war has been ongoing for four decades and America seems like its not going to win sooner.

Growing up in Reading, Pennsylvania in a lower-class neighborhood being raised by my maternal grandmother, I did not realize how different my life was from those outside my community. It was normal for me to see empty drug baggies on the ground, people coping drugs on the corner, abandoned buildings, and crime. As I got older, and my network of people grew, I started to notice some differences. However, it wasn’t until I left home at age 18 to attend college did I fully realize that my “normal” was not the “normal”. Most people I grew up with came from low income households and had one or both parents addicted to drugs or alcohol and mines were no different. The 80s-crack cocaine epidemic hit my family hard and by the end of that era my mother and her 6 siblings were all addicted. My mother’s disease progressed over the years and by 1999 she was an IV drug user, who attended 17 different treatment centers, been to jail 3 times, and overdosed countless times.

Social conflicts and struggles are an inevitable part of any society in any country. These struggles can include an increased rate in crime, unemployment, domestic/general violence, and overall civilian depression. When governments cannot seem to find a means to an end, they often turn and look for something to blame for their struggles, and that thing is more often than not, drugs. For many years, several opiates and drugs were primarily used for medicinal purposes, were seen to have an abundance of health benefits and was widely accepted among communities. Although, with the increasing social conflicts and economic conditions, authorities turned to and targeted many different forms of once accepted drugs, and made them the scapegoat for the problems they were facing.

Drug laws are a big part of society and are constantly evolving within the government. There is a constant debate about whether drug laws should be more restrictive or less restrictive. More restrictive drug laws can create more dangerous roles in society because of the government standards. While less restrictive drug laws can also create danger within society due to government standards and show how restrictive laws do not work. Drug laws should remain less restrictive because the courts would reduce the amount of people in prisons, take profits away from drug cartels, and restrict research.

The United States prohibits the use of narcotics such as marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. The government of the United States continues to be at war preventing these drugs from being smuggled across borders, but one major supplier that causes a difficulty in that operation is known as “El Chapo”. Most underground drugs today come from a cartel in Mexico because the drugs are inexpensive (Schuppe). Throughout his life, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera has smuggled over “one million pounds of narcotics” into the United States, and backboned the United States drug market (Ware). Joaquin Guzman had a hard beginning in life, starting with his struggling childhood, which influenced him to get involved in the drug trade and led to his control over the Sinaloa Cartel, then he proved that he was the ultimate drug lord by his escapes.

The ancient Greeks were unique and had a one of a kind culture which would heavily influence the Western world. Their literature would bring forth works that intertwined religious, philosophical, mythological, and political all in one. From the Bronze Age to the Dark Age, the ancient Greeks would be innovators for practices we have become accustomed to, such as philosophy, democracy, literature and even theatricals. During this time, most that had been illuminated had been lost in the Dark Ages, yet thanks to Homer, a Greek writer, some of Greeks’ lost age was recorded and survived centuries to come. (Damrosch 186)

Someone once asked me a question that I have struggled to answer. Although it was simply asked, the answer was nothing but complex- what is the difference between a man and a woman? Such a loaded question when you think of it. We have come so far in society to where we now allow females to run for president. But the opportunity is much different for a woman than it is a man. How so? To be specific, men and women are not equal when it comes to many things, such as dictations of gender roles in households, unequal pay in the workplace, and gender inequality in political circles. One of the articles I read, discusses the gender differences in society and its effect on women today. Carli’s (1999) article addresses the constant power struggle in society in her work called, Gender, Interpersonal Power, and Social Influence. The sociological question in this article is whether men possess higher levels of power than women. How is it that a man can hold the same position as a woman, in the same company, having earned the same degree, yet the dollar amount the male earns is seemingly higher than the woman’s, even though it is the same amount of work? As a society, we have been conditioned to believe that the amount of effort and work women put into their jobs is less valuable than that of a man’s. More women are attending college and getting degrees, yet our progress since the women’s right movement has been so minimal. Society is more focused on the gender role of an individual

Numerous individuals do not comprehend why individuals get to be dependent on drugs or how drugs can change the mind to cultivate enthusiastic drug abuse. They erroneously view drug misuse and dependence as entirely a social issue and may describe the individuals who take drugs as ethically powerless (Alving, Matyas, Torres, Jalah, & Beck, 2014). One extremely regular belief is that drugs abusers ought to have the capacity to stop taking drugs if they are willing to change their conduct and be a member of society (Alvin et al., 2014). What individuals frequently underestimate is the intricacy of drug dependence that this is