Substance Abuse Increasing in Inner-City Minorities

Cocaine is one of the oldest, most powerful and most dangerous stimulants in the world. This powerfully addictive drug effects over 35 million people In the United States. Cocaine addiction prevents a person from being a productive member in our society. It also increases the cost for law enforcement and treatment facilities. It rapidly decreases the workplace, increases the homeless rate and needless deaths on a daily basis.

African American are some of the most affected by the opiate crisis. When it comes to the opiate crisis in the United States, most people have a mental image of who the most commonly affected type of people affected by this epidemic. Back in the day, in most people’s minds, the ‘‘typical” junkie was a white person shooting up heroin under a bridge in the middle of a city, in the outskirts of town, or they were the homeless man or woman asking you for spare change when you’re walking out of a grocery store. Over time, the ‘typical’ addict has changed. Now, a lot of white kids from suburban communities who got hooked on painkillers and subsequently got onto heroin, such as your high school athlete or your studious 20- somethings in college. That’s

No one identity is sought after as it pertains to substance abuse addiction. In 1972 within Miami, the demographic data of the “common addict” was outlines as a single white male between the ages of 19 and 25 (Drugs in our Schools, 1972). Not operating inside a vacuum, drug addiction can affect all racial and ethnic backgrounds to include all ages.

“Growing up I was introduced to a lot of things that my parents weren’t. There were teenagers in highschool with the ability to get a variety of different drugs, people were experimenting with everything,” says Bosswell.

I had my first psychedelic experience on that cold February day, 25I was the name. At the point I realized, I'm not a human having a spiritual experience, I'm a Spirit having a human experience. About a month went by when my problems started to again surface. Not knowing what to do I hit the Devil's Weed again, seemed like all the problems from the year before repeated. Getting caught again to running away how I stupid do I feel, but it got better I found someone on else Youtube who was the real deal. Who inspired me to become a vegan, and to let go of Pot. There message was all about Spirituality and God which I didn't believe in back then. Let's skip ahead a year to the 11th grade all is good,no bad friends, starting to love myself,but the addiction still was there in Gluttonous eating, lustful thinking, and I was power hungry searching for knowledge outside of myself. So I bit into the fruit of the apple like Adam and Eve, took two hits of 25D. To put into perspective this was my first Near death experience. The knowledge of the Universe was soaring thru my head. My brain to body reaction time was off by 3 seconds, and I'm going delusional in my bed, and my body feels like it wants to die. I can feel everything on the planet from children dying to animals suffering. So I prayed

Addiction of cocaine has proven to be a lifetime addiction and there is always a possibility for relapse even after years of curtailment. These drugs have the ability to alter the physical makeup of the brain.

In this popular article, the author discusses the impact of Substance abuse on the African American community. Drawing close attention to complexity and prevalence of the issue of substance abuse in the African American community, to explain the benefits of a spirituality focused approach. The author touches on causative factors of substance abuse in the African American community. The lack of studies conducted using African American as the focus group being first. The impact of socio-cultural factors and other interfering variables, and finally violence and the problems it brings to the community. The article pays particular close attention to the role of religion and the black church. Arguing that support from the religious community is important

“Well I wasn’t able to work, so I was basically just staying in my house every day. If I wasn’t depressed before that point I was surely on track to get there fast.”

One day as a drug rehabilitation counselor I’ve seen many different cases of people who have dealt with drug use. But the funniest case I’ve seen so far. Was when one of my patients took a drug called mushrooms also known as shrooms. Shrooms is a hallucinogen and it makes you hallucinate. So one day my patient though he was a pony so he started making extremely funny noises and he would walk on all fours. I thought this was a funny case of my patient.

The article “Biggest Risk Factor for Teens Taking Ecstasy: Use of Other Drugs” reveals the reality of young adults and consistent use of drugs. Newswise reported that a high percentage of young adults have taken Ecstasy within the last year. Also known as “Molly”, “E” and “X”, it has become the drug of choice at raves and dance parties. Studies have proved that those who have used Ecstasy were also involved with other illegal drugs. There have been an ample number of new designer drugs that have developed to imitate the effects of Ecstasy. These drugs are being made with various unknown substances that make it extremely dangerous for individuals to ingest. The new drugs on the market have been shifted in chemical makeup making it impossible to keep track of the results. It is

Cocaine is one the most destructive and addictive drugs on the market. Cocaine leads to be one of the results of why people go to jail, do it while they are pregnant, and even death. This is the story of Cocaine, or one of the forms known as Crack, and the bare minimums of it.

“I tried ignoring it for the most of the summer,but I eventually came to terms with my real goal.”

Now he remembered why he usually stuck with beer and stayed away from whiskey. Beer never gave him hangovers like this. Nor did it make his mouth taste like old gym socks.

T.J: Well right now I'm in Detox. I'm trying to get my life back on track. It's

I remember it was a friday morning. Me and a few good friends of mine at the time woke up pretty early around 7 am. We woke up on the floor of my friend malik's house. Malik’s parents weren’t living there at the time it was just him and his 2 older brothers, malik was 18 and 2 years older than us at the time his brothers were just a few years older. So they always had a lot of friends stay over, and man did we party a lot. We partied there just about every night of the summer so over time more and more people started to show. Eventually the whole high school caught wind of our party functions and it started getting out of hand we would have over a 60 people there and half of the people we wouldn’t even know. It got real crazy it being a party, of course the drugs started coming and there would be randoms in the party selling weed or pills to everyone