...Drug addiction is a major social evil of modern times. Major newspaper headlines and sensational television coverage scream about drug abuse and related crimes. Fascination for drugs and their easy availability have heightened the number of drug abuse cases particularly among youngsters. Drugs produce a sence of euphoria but they are very dangerous because the users gradually get addicted and are always at risk of a variety of life-threatning diseases. Addicts face this risk unless they enter long term drug rehab programs and completely quit their drug habit It has been found that drug addicts are initiated on this path by their friends or company. Such a phenomenon occurs at school, college or university or at disco, or at a trip of excursion or at some social gatherings. The major factors leading to drug addiction are lack of parental cure and supervision, lack of moral and religious education, media and pop culture, hatred for any authority, broken homes etc….. To check this alarming increase in the number of people taking drugs, the government has outlawed its abuse with hard penalties. A relentless campaign against drug addiction will yeild the desired results. The campaign against drug may start with schools, advertisements, warnings by doctors, and so on. The young ones shoud be ensured of proper love and care. In the long run however, only a spiritually oriented education system could prove to be a success on getting rid of this bad habit. "Drugs are a waste...
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...Nancy Reagan was the first lady of the United States for eight years and during that time, she was well remembered for her “Just Say No” drug awareness campaign. Without Nancy Reagan, children and youth will be less aware and educated about the harmful effects of narcotic drugs. Through her campaign, children and youth are discouraged to use illegal drugs. Nancy Reagan supported Just Say No To Drugs organizations at school and anti-drug programs in the community. She visited drug rehab centers and abuse prevention programs in the United States and abroad. Without Nancy Reagan, children and youth will be indulged on the use of drugs and suffer the horrible effects of them. Anti-drug programs would not have enough help and support to make a difference, especially from a first lady of the United States who had...
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...January 15, 2006 As an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, Aaron Graham saw firsthand how counterfeit drugs can slip into the pharmaceutical supply chain. Graham, now VP and chief security officer for Purdue Pharma, once posed as the manager of an "institutional pharmacy" selling drugs at a discount to secondary wholesalers who were then supposed to sell them to nursing homes. Soon after he began, his phone started ringing. Dozens of smaller pharmaceutical wholesale companies were calling, desperate to buy his drugs. These secondary or "gray market" wholesalers scour the country and the world for low-price drugs they can sell back to major wholesalers for a profit. In addition to trawling for institutional pharmacies, some secondary wholesalers have been known to purchase counterfeit drugs from criminal organizations in places such as China, Thailand or Colombia. Graham, who was part of a two-year FDA sting operation known as "operation gray pill," helped expose a system in which large and small wholesalers were taking advantage of multitiered pricing in the industry. Prescription drugs are sold at discounts to subsidized groups such as nursing homes and also exported at lower prices. Graham and his colleagues found that these lower-priced drugs are sometimes smuggled back into the country and sold to large wholesalers for a profit. These multiple steps, in which a drug can bounce back and forth from distributor to distributor...
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...People can become addicted to a variety of drugs for a variety of reasons. Some of the most addictive drugs include, but are not limited to: cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines (uppers). Drug rehabs offer drug abusers an opportunity to rid their addiction. Drug rehabs are located in virtually every city and town in the United States as drug addiction is a problem that will not go away. The same holds true for drug addiction in Europe and other parts of the world as well. The exact cause of drug abuse and dependence is not known. However, a person's genes, the action of the drug, peer pressure, emotional distress, anxiety, depression, and environmental stress all can be factors. Peer pressure can lead to drug use or abuse, but at least half of those who become addicted have depression, attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or another mental health problem. To Keep your Child Away from Drugs should be the single most important agenda that you today as parents of children above 11 must have because drug abuse and drug addiction in children is increasing at an alarming rate. It is a problem of not a particular class of society, of a city, place, economic or ethnic group. It is everywhere and is becoming everybody's problem. Remember all children are vulnerable to the temptation of drugs. Usually it goes out of control before you can do anything about it. So keep your ears and eyes open and take the help of the following suggestions in doing...
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...Kids think drug testing is like getting stung by a bee. At first it hurts and they try everything to prevent it from happening. Nowadays, schools implement drug testing to try and help students and prevent drug abuse, but many students find it annoying and stupid instead of helpful. However, drug testing is an important thing because it is trying to keep students safe and provide a safe environment in which they can grow and develop into functioning members of society. The first reason drug testing is important is it allows for early detection of substance abuse and intervention. Catching drug abuse early in a student’s life can save his or her life or help them get put back on the right track in school and their daily life. Drug testing in schools can be annoying and expensive, but if you think about it saving someone's life early on before they get addicted to drugs is more important than the money. “The stated goal of such programs is to identify students with possible substance abuse issues and to intervene early.” (John, par 2) Intervention can be a hard thing, especially when you are a teenager, and talking about the reasons why drugs seem necessary can be a tough exercise, but in the end it is for the best. From my own...
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...Illegal Drugs (What should we do now?) BorudeManoj L. Herzing University What is drug abuse? A habit of taking drugs which are illegal or habit of taking any drug as an addiction. Drugs invaded every aspect of our society since 1960s. Around 208 million peoples take drugs as per survey done by National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The most commonly abused drug is alcohol. Which is the reason for more drink and drive cases and teen's deaths in road accidents Marijuana is again commonly used drug. 3.9% of global population aged between 15 to 64, abuses marijuana as per Unites Nations 2008 Drug Report. Cocaine and Heroin is abused globally nowadays. Why peoples abuse drugs? Peoples take drugs to seem grown up, to relax, to relieve boredom, but this solution eventually turns out a biggest problem for these peoples. Some abuse drugs to because they have problems in life, but taking drugs becomes the worst problem in their life. Some examples of same are below: “I ended up homeless and on the streets, living and sleeping in a cardboard box, begging and struggling to find ways to get my next meal.” —Ben (Source-http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/the-truth-about-drugs.html). “I felt that I was more fun when I was drunk. Soon after I started drinking. I was introduced to marijuana. Later, I was hanging out at a friend’s house smoking marijuana. when someone pulled out a bag of cocaine. Snorting cocaine quickly became a daily habit. I was stealing money from my parents’...
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...Prescription Drug Use “According to results from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 2.1 million Americans used prescription drugs nonmedically for the first time within the past year, which averages to approximately 5,750 initiates per day.” said by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Many people with depression or a mental illness mistreat drugs and abuse them. Some people get the drugs from the doctor and others from people who are actually prescribed with the drugs. The effects of the drugs will cause more problems than it would help. People have misuse prescription drugs when they are depressed and/or mental illnesses. The author is using a personal story to connect to the readers. In an article about drug...
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...saying, "This is your brain on drugs". The message was powerful while at the same time informative. Smoking not only affects a person physically, but mentally as well. However, most people do not know the severe mental damage smoking inflicts since the focus is primarily on the physical effects. Drug abuse is becoming a growing problem among teenagers. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse's 1999 survey of 2,000 teens, about 14 million teens ages 12 to 17, 60% are at moderate or high risk of substance abuse1. A leading reason for this increasing number is that it is getting easier and easier to obtain drugs. Marijuana is easier to buy than beer, while cigarettes are the easiest to buy. Forty-seven percent of all teens say cigarettes are easiest to buy, 27% say marijuana and 12% say beer. The older the teen gets, the easier it is to buy marijuana rather than beer1. There are a number of different reasons teenagers begin to use drugs. Many kids use drugs for the same reasons adults use drugs- to get high, to feel happy, stimulated, relaxed, or intoxicated. Drugs can also be used to ease stress, frustration, tension, disappointment, fear or anger. Many teens turn to drugs when they feel as though they have no where or no else to turn to for help. Depression is a major reason teens might turn to drug abuse. They are overcome with a feeling of emptiness and hopelessness and tend to try to fill the void by using drugs. When teens are particularly stressed...
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...[pic] A Study on “Yaba”: The Killing Drug for youth Submitted by WWW.ASSIGNMENTPOINT.COM Drugs have come a long way from the “mothers' little helpers” that the Rolling Stones sang about. These days' street chemists have waged a war on the senses to try and find the recipe for the ultimate drug. While it would be easy to shrug that off as a problem of the west, the truth is that here in Bangladesh the world of drugs has found a shady little corner. Whether you choose to accept it or not, there is A major drug scene in Bangladesh now, and it's infecting the minds of today's youth, the people we like to call our future leaders. | | Farah (not her real name) is 18 years old and has been using drugs since the age of 14. Her story like many others started out with Marijuana. It was through the simple use of Marijuana that she opened the doors to a much wider use of drugs. After experimenting with drugs for a bit, she soon realised that she was addicted to heroin. She says it was purely accidental, and soon enough got over the addiction. Farah suffered from severe withdrawal but eventually when she kicked the habit she knew that she could never go back to it. But after hearing about a new drug called Yaba, she decided to try it. She started using it after she entered a circle of friends who were completely immersed into it. In her opinion that is not the only reason she started hard drugs again: “Everybody is doing it because...
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...Grade English Mrs. King April 26, 2016 Should Schools Check Students Backpacks and Lockers for Drugs and Weapons? Students bring backpacks to school to store their belongings and put their belongs in lockers too. Sometimes students bring inappropriate things to school such as drugs or weapons, schools then search the student's belongings for those dangerous items they bring, but is it fair? Schools should search students backpacks and lockers for drugs and weapons due to the possibility of injury or death and the possibility of drugs being used and passed around at school. One reason that schools should check backpack and lockers for weapons is that someone could be injured or killed. According to David Bowman and Ryan Wells,...
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..."'One Step Better Than Reality.' (herbal drug use)(Cover Story)." Newsweek 6 May 1996: 66+. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 16 Feb. 2012. John Leland’s article, ‘One Step Better than Reality (herbal drug use),’ tells about a young woman named Aniubis Castilla. She lives in Hialeah, California. Castilla enjoys dancing and going out to night clubs. She says that when she needed a “boost…she took the psychedelic drug MDMA,” otherwise known as ecstasy. Consequently, after taking a bad dose of ecstasy one night, she realized that the drug was just distracting her from her goals in life. Shortly after, she discovered a drug similar, but not near as dangerous, called herbal sex ecstasy. Castilla describes the drug as ‘one step better than reality.’ She says that herbal ecstasy is much healthier and safer than its rivals: cloud 9, ultimate xphoria and x. All of these are known as ‘Rave Energy,’ and have flourished in clubs and throughout teenagers and adults in the United States. Leland says that the herbal drug hit at a ‘ripe’ moment, emerging in an expanding drug culture. Other drugs such as marijuana, LSD, cocaine came about in the 90s, followed by herbal drugs about a decade later. But unlike other drugs, Leland says that “herbal’s play both sides, selling the promise of psychedelic euphoria while actually delivering just a mild, caffeine like boost.” Leland concludes his article by stating that overall, herbal drugs are safer than pure MDMA ecstasy, but...
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...It has been sad that people will go to great lengths to acquire drugs which cause a certain “high“ experience .Even legalisation protests ,e.g. the world movement to legalise weed which is currently taking place all over the internet.so we took initiative to find out what Botswana’s youth thought on the issue of legalising illicit drugs. Interview 1 Interviewer: do you do drugs? Scholar: no I don’t. Interviewer: Have u ever wanted to do drugs? Scholar: Because I am not a fan of drugs. I feel that they would destroy my life I start Interviewer: Do u think legalisation of illicit drugs is a solution to abuse? Scholar: But how can that be a solution? No. Relying on any type of drugs to be happy is not right and is no way to live life, Interviewer: Why do u say it’s not right ?Isn’t life about what makes one happy so what if it is right to that person as it is the only way she/he can have a happy life, are they still wrong? Scholar: Life is what u make of it, so when u take drugs then you are letting something else control your life, you are giving away your power to something as petty as drugs? No thank you. Interviewer: Is there an upside legalisation? I mean don’t u think the intake of drugs could be monitored and henceforth reducing chancing of addiction? Scholar: Well I don’t think so because even though alcohol is legal and they try to regulate the total amount a person can take, it just never works, people still get wasted so it would probably be the same. Interview...
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...Based on the information I learned in this Chapter, I cannot necessarily say that drug use causes crime. However, there is a casual relationship between drug use and crime but that doesn’t mean that this is true all the time. Since drug use isn’t the cause for all crimes, all the time then I would state that for sure. So therefore, I would say that drug use and crime is correlated to each other, very strongly. However, it is still impossible to say either of one of these two variables effect the other. The reason is because for every crime we cannot say drug causes crime, it could be other trends that causes crime. To assess the construct validity of research on drug and crime, we have to take the time out to think about different patterns...
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...including: “Arresting the Drug Laws”, by David Silverberg (2005, p.33), “Limited victory for medical cannabis”, by Andy Coghlan (2003, p.13), and “What Do Student Drug Use Surveys Really Mean?”, by Mike A. Males (2005, pp.31-33). In, “Arresting the Drug Laws”, David Silverberg (2005, p.33) talks about an organization called LEAP, or Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. He starts off by mentioning that the group was established three years ago by two ex-cops, and has since grown to over 2,000 members. He also informs the reader that LEAP only consists of individuals with a background in law, such as prison wardens, judges, mayors, and police officers (p.33). Silverberg gives the viewpoints of several members of the organization; Jack Cole, co-founder, says that if marijuana were legalized, “Organized criminals and world terrorists would be monetarily crippled for many years to come.” Bob Owens, a former police chief, makes the analogy that the war on drugs is, “a strawman that can distract people and stir the hysteria that accompanies it. (p.33)” The author then goes on to say that LEAP predicts a $2 billion yearly profit from the taxation of marijuana if it were sold legally. He also points out that if marijuana was controlled by the government, users would know that the product would not be accompanied by any of the dangerous additives used on the streets (p.33). Silverberg concludes with a quote by Howard Woolridge, another member of LEAP, who says that, “Eighty percent...
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...Philosophy 4 February 2016 Everyone agrees that drugs are bad. I don’t have any experience with drugs but I know that people bash marijuana the most. Some people don’t see marijuana as a drug, but they see it as a gateway drug. Meaning it’s the drug that leads you to other harmful drugs, like cocaine, coke, heroin, etc. I’ve known of a lot of people who have died from drugs like cocaine and heroin, but I have never heard of someone dying from marijuana. From my knowledge marijuana is a plant, and you can consume any amount of it and won’t have severe side effects. The side effects that I’ve heard comes from marijuana is sleepiness, and eating more than usual. Marijuana is only legal in a few states, like Colorado, and Washington. There are 23 states that have legalized medical marijuana, and 7 states that are on the verge of legalizing it. The issue is marijuana is illegal in most states and a lot of people are getting in federal trouble because they have been caught with it by the police. Not only that most people think of marijuana as a drug that causes harm to our society. I believe that marijuana should be legal to some extent. Marijuana has been used for decades, and no one hasn’t suffered any death from it. I wouldn’t consider it a drug because of the fact that you can’t overdose using it. People use other medical drugs such as ibuprofen, Tylenol, and other pain relievers, which is legal to use. People that use these drugs can overdose and kill themselves. What I don’t...
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