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Heroin is one of many street drugs notorious for addiction, death from overdose, and ruining not only the lives of users but also the lives of the people around them. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the national number in the United States of heroin overdose deaths in 2014 alone was around eleven thousand, a number that is six times higher than it was only fifteen years ago in 2001, and it continues to rise. The issue of heroin is growing not only nationally but even locally in

If you had a choice whether you wanted to alter your brain forever for the worse or keep it the way it is, what would you choose? Pretty easy question right, most people would chose to keep their brain the same. That is not the case. Drugs are a colossal problem nowadays for teenagers and adults, Drugs can alter the brain permanently, and it can be almost impossible to recover from addiction, especially as a teen. Addiction is a chronic relapsing disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking

occurred in the state of Tennessee in 2014. More people died from opioid overdose than the number of gunshot and motor vehicle accident deaths combined. Known as “Hillbilly Heroin,” the opioid of choice are Hydrocodone, Percocet, Oxycodone IR, and Oxycontin with street values ranging from $5 to $80 dollars per pill. Currently, Tennessee remains the leader in the number of pain pill prescriptions per person (Fletcher, 2015). The misuse and abuse of opioids in Tennessee has resulted in legislative bills

Because prescription drugs allow for a multitude of quick benefits, doctors are beginning to unnecessarily overprescribe medications to their pediatric patients. Of these prescription drugs, opioid pain killers, antibiotics, and psychiatric medications are the most commonly overprescribed in child care. For example, opioid prescriptions have increased 300 percent in the past seventeen years (Boerner 20), over 50 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are written each year (Murray 266), and

In the pharmaceutical field, there is a lot of controversy when it comes to doctors prescribing certain medications to patients; such as oxycodone. Some citizens hold the government accountable for addicting patients to oxycodone, but in reality the ones to blame are the doctors and pharmaceutical scientist. The government may have allowed doctors to prescribe these medications but there are also laws created to prevent doctors from abusing the right to prescribe oxycodone. The most common controlled

The multidimensional expression “hillbilly” carries different cultural significances throughout the book Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. First, Vance utilizes the term “hillbilly” to refer to the working class white Americans of Scots-Irish descent who have no college degree (3). Second, Vance uses the term hillbilly to refer to a group of people from a specific geographic area, namely the area of the Appalachian Mountains. According to Vance, the area stretches from Alabama to Georgia in the South

While sex is not illegal drugs are. She has had Marijuana, OxyContin, and Vicodin just to name a few. She needed money to buy drugs so she would steal items from stores in return to get money for drugs. Now, Cit Cat participated in another criminal act. She would go to therapy and doctors would state how drugs and

On July 8th, 2011 “"...in a decision announced Friday the federal government ruled that [marijuana] has no accepted medical use and should remain classified as a highly dangerous drug like heroin. The decision comes almost nine years after medical marijuana supporters asked the government to reclassify cannabis...” (procon.org). The debate about medicinal marijuana has occurred for years in the United States. Though research provides substantial evidence that marijuana is medically significant, the

common drugs that have been extremely relevant in the current epidemics are; opioids, crack, morphine, meth, and major prescription painkillers. Most common epidemic drugs involved in prescription overdose deaths are Hydrocodone (Vicodin), Oxycodone (OxyContin), Oxymorphone (Opana), Methadone (Understanding the...n.p.). These particular drugs are prescribed by a doctor typically for pain, these drugs are very addictive if not used properly. Especially Hydrocodone and Oxycodone are the most popular and

areas like a garage, or illegal laboratories, where its production dangers the people within the labs, neighbors, and the environment. Opioids are a class of drugs that have heroine in it and act as pain relievers and can be obtained legally such as OxyContin, Hydrocodone, Vicodin, Codeine, morphine, and fentanyl. Opioid pain relievers are usually are usually safe when taken for a short time and not a long period of time and also when prescribed by a doctor most drugs should not be took if not prescribed