The Epidemic Is Sweeping The Nation

Imagine. Eric is about to run the one-hundred-meter dash at a track and field meet in front of hundreds of college recruiters. Everything is going great, the weather is perfect and Eric has worked hard this year and wants to run a good time. Everything is going fine for Eric until he walks to the starting line to get into the starting blocks. While he is waiting in the blocks, the starter ties cinder blocks to Eric’s feet. Eric is confused and frustrated, but there is nothing he can do about it.

Heroine is a epidemic that’s sweeping our nations. With over 15,000 pounds taken into police custody the trade isn’t getting any less demanding. And with a new form of it taking lives quicker than before how does this drug end up in America? Most of this drug is made in Mexico and Columbia from the poppy plant. 10,000 people in 201 died on Heroine and now with the new substance fentanyl is it killing even more people. They way it gets through oddly enough is just US check points and borders most

The silent epidemic sweeping the nation today is credit card abuse. As prices of goods increase faster than average wages, American families slide deeper into debt. In the meantime, the banks are flourishing from their desire to buy now and pay later. It is amazing how a small piece of plastic can be so dangerous. Society today almost requires people to carry credit cards. In my opinion, credit cards are one of America’s family’s most underrated problems.      One could assume the banks encourage

In my opinion, there is a heroin epidemic within my community and many other communities nationwide. In Will County in December of 2015 one of my childhood friends passed away from a heroin overdose. Heroin use is an issue that is prevalent within our community and has affected an immeasurable amount of people. Heroin addiction is extremely detrimental to young adults and must be combated with a multi-faceted approach. The prevalence of pill mills, teen’s access to prescription pills, a lack of drug

counteract the “disease” and escape the clutches of it within their own personal lives. Doctors would appear on talk shows and the news educating the public on what they can do to prevent “suicide” from affecting their own lives. It would be labeled the epidemic taking out even the strongest among us in our modern generation. However, suicide isn’t a disease per say. It can be a symptom of a disease, such as depression. However, it in and of itself is only the embodiment and end-result of the despair and

Sweeping the nation on a mass caliber is the opioid crisis. Stories have been depicted by every news channel across the nation on the crisis that has destroyed countless individuals lives. According Alanna Semuels's article, "Are Pharmaceutical Companies to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic?", she reports the fault of the calamity. Semuels points out that the perpetrator of this utterly horrendous plague is the doctors who have over-prescribed medication, as well as the pharmaceutical industry. This

There is a mass epidemic sweeping across the nation. It is exceedingly widespread and will continue to spread, unless we take action, now. This epidemic is: skin cancer. Skin cancer comes in many forms such as: melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. Melanoma is the most fatal, whereas basal and squamous cell carcinoma are more prominent. Each year there are more cases of skin cancer than breast, prostate, lung and colon cancer combined.The amount of people being diagnosed is

A healthy body tends to lead towards a higher quality of life and lower medical costs. Unfortunately, the United States’ population is suffering from an increasing epidemic of obesity. Ever since the 1970’s, obesity rates have more than doubled within adults and children (“Obesity in the U.S.”). Obesity is starting to be seen more and more in society, but it all starts with the individual deciding whether to become obese or not. Society defines being obese as having an excess of body fat; or in other

Heroin is a drug with a multitude of effects on the person and the community around them. Heroin is a highly addictive opioid drug, that is sweeping the nation as an epidemic. Many people have been effected by the addiction to heroin. The addiction dose not just effect the person that is addicted. Heroin dose a lot to the community, economy, and people directly in contact with the addict. Heroin is a source for a lot of widespread issues. Heroin has wide spread effects on the person who uses

observations I mention as arising from an ecological perspective, such as the effect of tribal movement and climate change, link with ones that might arise when approaching anthropological work with First Nation peoples in northern Canada from a cultural angle. The Cree and Inuit, along with other First Nation tribes, are often described in relation to their intimate ties with the environment. This intimacy (Hallenday) shapes every aspect of their cultures – how they hunt, how they socialize, even their