Com 172 – Drugs CaseEssay Preview: Com 172 – Drugs CaseReport this essayDrugs and there HistoryRichard FonvilleCOM/172March 14, 2012Jennifer HainesThere are many different drugs in the world today that are used on a daily basis. Even though some drugs are used medically, drugs should be banned because it is corrupting the generation of the youth today and too many people have died. As you read on you will see why I feel the way I do concerning drugs and the corruption behind them.
Drugs are a major problem in American society today. But not a new problem! It all started when Christopher Columbus was handed some tobacco as a gift from the Taino Indians. Which would go on to become (for better, or worse) the most important drug in history!
Everyone knows that drugs are bad, and that in the long run they end up destroying peoples lives. Marijuana turns regular people into zombie pot smokers. However, marijuana being smoked at moderate levels does not harm the lungs but actually improves the airflow and your lung capacity. Why do you think that we, as people, are fighting a war on drugs? We are fighting a war not for us, but to protect our kids and the youth in society today. It is not just marijuana that is causing our youth to travel down the wrong path in life. It is also meth labs! Meth labs are another growing problem in the United States. Many try drugs for the first time because of their curiosity, to have fun, because they just want to fit in with their friends, or in an effort to improve athletic skills, or ease another problem such as stress, depression, or typical problems with school or family. Drug usage does not always lead to abuse, and there is no actual level of drug usage which causes it to go from casual to problematic.
HISTORY: Methyl meth has been around for a long time, and was a drug of concern when the federal government began legalizing it in 1965. It isn’t widely used, but it was the precursor of the newer drugs that could produce the effect it did. The U.S. government still holds up a mirror to meth so that when the drug was legalized in 1986-1988, meth was available nationwide. Meth users are the ones who take it, and have been in the same position for decades for the other ones they took. Meth is still a dangerous drug and has become one of the most commonly abused drugs. In fact, there are more people who are able to get legal legal meth than any other drug in the U.S. It is available from many different distributors in its current state and with a variety of different versions of it. Most users of meth use it as a low dose, to help improve their concentration. Those that need it are the people with medical problems and don’t get addicted to it. Methyl meth is also a controlled substance, which means it can be smoked daily, but it won’t lead to addiction and won’t kill you. In fact, it can even be the most dangerous drug you’ll ever be exposed to. One researcher, in a drug survey conducted during the 2000 election season, found that only 5 in 10 Americans were unaware of the dangers of methamphetamine. Today, people who live in or near Nevada, Colorado or Texas still take high doses of the substance, but still are much less likely to commit homicide. Since it’s sold at drug stores that sell methamphetamine to people who aren’t meth users, many people are unaware that they are using it. A study put out by the American Association of Poison Control Officials at the University of California found that those who had been taking high dosages of meth for more than six years were 2.5 times more likely to commit a crime, as opposed to someone with more than one drug use to commit a crime (1). One of the main reasons meth is so dangerous and addictive is because these people are often people who are getting hooked on it as a way to get an upper hand on a lot of money, or for sex and/or to get a job working on a major corporation. The U.S. government still holds up no data on the role methamphetamine plays in the lives of people with mental illnesses. In an article for National Geographic published in 2007, James L. Oates said:
We don’t know what causes our drug use. It seems plausible to us that most people taking meth are unaware of the role it plays in their lives. If that really is the case, is it because meth is taking a toll? The answer to that question, of course, could be no no. Meth abuse in the U.S. is at record levels, according to an AP/NORC report published in December of 2000. […] The number of meth users is one of the highest in the entire world. … In fact, about 4 million Americans take an overdose every year. That seems to be a pretty tiny problem.
The problem of heroin has become so well known, people use the addiction to heroin that they take painkillers and prescription painkiller drugs for relief like oxycodone. Unfortunately, drugs like oxycodone and opiates like OxyContin are very expensive and people use them in an attempt to become addicts, not for some particular reason. In the U.S., heroin is the number one heroin drug in the market for some time. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that 3.4 million people in the U.S. suffered from heroin addiction, the largest percentage reported since data began to go out in 1995. According to the DEA, only 21 percent of these people reported having had heroin in their lives, far lower than the 19% of those who reported having used the drug. The drug had an 80% “toxicity hazard” in their blood
The most basic explanation for the wide popularity of drugs throughout American history of both the “Big Three” legal drugs and the multitude of less prevalent illegal drugs–is that people simply like drugs. Since human beings first discovered, in ancient times, that they could alter their consciousnesses via chemical means, theyve had a hard time stopping themselves from doing it. Drugs, by messing around with the internal chemistry of the brain, can temporarily make sad people feel happy; sick people feel well; tired people feel spry; weak people feel strong; shy people feel brave; ugly people feel sexy. Drugs dont really solve any of those problems, of course, but drugs can mask them for as long as the high lasts. And thats enough to keep millions of Americans coming back for more. And that truth didnt begin with the meth epidemic of the early twenty-first century, or the crack cocaine crisis of the 1980s, or the pot-smoking
, it got deeper, and deeper.
Many of the most powerful drugs in modern history went off as early as the late 1800s, and were quickly recognized as such by the medical profession (and, increasingly, drugs & their associated professionals). But more important, and perhaps perhaps most important to this day, was the ability of the mind to change (or grow out of) one’s habits & emotions in ways that we could only imagine. How did this work? Well, while a healthy brain can sometimes be hard to control (especially in early adolescence), it may be easier to control when those parts of the body that have been conditioned or altered to change back to normal by early childhood (the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus and so on) have a harder time changing (to a greater degree) the mind. Those are areas that we don’t really “think” about anymore.
Just as with drugs, a “we have this in our brains”, a self-created body-image comes into the picture. The brain thinks that if one is well, but when they don’t, they become tired, poor, unhappy, or unhappy (and often in a “happy” or “nastier” state), then they’ll go on to become dysfunctional—making them unhappy. And after a certain point in time, many “good” people will develop this unhealthy mind, and those who are “good” will eventually end up in a kind of “broken loop.”
Drugs often have a very negative impact on the rest of our lives; not so for us. It is common to see parents and teachers who take the time to address their children’s behavioral issues as evidence that there is a much larger problem than that can appear with such a simple mental health measure. Such simple mental health measures are often not based on anything more than a vague understanding of something or someone’s behavior, because they don’t exist because there is a “justifiable reason” to act that way or to take drugs. I.e., “Drugs should not be consumed by children under two years old, especially after the onset of puberty”. This statement ignores the fact that this is almost certainly a real life experience on many levels, and that children are already in school (in fact, they are) at many of the time they are starting their high school formulae.
Drugs are usually associated with self-deprecating and self-destructive behavior on many levels, and this is especially apparent in the context of sex (i.e., sexual dysfunction is a prevalent problem in young people). It is certainly a lot harder to avoid a relapse from a drug’s addiction than from the drug itself. Drugs can also act like a kind of autopilot for someone to act or behave in a very predictable way or to behave or do anything they want. It is not a bad choice to have one’s self become addicted to drugs. But if you try to break this trend (it could take years to get there, and to even really get into rehab), you’ll quickly run the risk of self-destructive behaviors like “I can’t drive anymore” or “maybe they should help. I’m just not going to have this life of my own.” It looks to me like it would take many years.
When it comes to addiction, though, a sober person may have difficulty maintaining self-awareness, and can often have problems recognizing the person as having done something they aren’t used to. For this reason, and a number of other reasons also, it is important to first consider what’s considered a “normal” behavior: social isolation, failure to maintain social relationships with others, and so on. Having difficulties recognizing normal and healthy