There are many studies that show negative impacts of drugs on human cognition. The misuse of recreational drugs includes risk factors of a mental condition called psychosis. Some studies show that people use drugs because they want to hallucinate and get away from the real world not because they need a drug for a medical condition. Being under the influence of drugs causes accidents just like being under the influence of alcohol can cause an accident. Communities are negatively affected by illegal drugs socially, because of driving under the influence, bad parenting, sexual assaults, and the cause of addiction.
Drug users are impacted socially. Too much drugs ruin the sleep cycles of people and also cause people to lose interest in eating and …show more content…
The issue with consuming drugs so often, is that consumers think their life is better while under the influence of drugs because the drugs are creating illusions or hallucinations that their life is not a mess therefore drugs consumers avoid recognizing that their life really is a mess. The characters from the novel Drop City by T.C. Boyle, consume an unlimited amount of drugs on a daily basis. These characters all moved to Drop City because they longed for a world with no rules because of the bourgeois world that they had lived in before deciding to move into Drop City. “There were no mothers here, no social directors or parents or bosses, and for once she felt like doing her own thing” (Boyle 3). Throughout the characters experience in Drop City, some characters do not make great choices and their decisions are influenced by too much drug use. Using recreational drugs for hallucination results that can get out of control. The article, “Clinical Toxicology of Newer Recreational Drugs” states that drugs that are known to be more hallucinogenic carry more risks of intoxication and faster effects of losing a right state of mind (711). Traditional illegal drugs such as LSD, …show more content…
People can also argue that for bad environmental or emotional stances drugs are needed to survive. An example is in Rat Park The Radical Addiction Experiment, Alexander believed that people were not addicted to drugs and instead they used drugs continually to get through bad circumstances. Alexander and Patricia Hathaway did a study on rats in a Rat park in which they tested if rats would consume drug based water over regular water after only being given drug based water. The rats however avoided drug based water no matter what after being in a happy environment such as the Rat Park. The study by Alexander showed that the environment or certain emotion in which a person lives does play part into the consumption of drugs however drugs may not be such a bad thing because the rats did not result in being addicted. Alexander himself mentioned that if he was in a cage versus a happy place he would rather be high all the time because in that case, drugs would help positively. An example of another contradicament from rat park can be how Lauren the author of Rat Park The Radical Addiction Experiment, did drugs herself in order to see if she would become addicted but after a certain amount of time she was able to completely avoid drug use. Laurens husband was also under drug use for medical purpose but he claimed not to be addicted to drugs because he “lived in a colony not a cage”
Drug users are impacted socially. Too much drugs ruin the sleep cycles of people and also cause people to lose interest in eating and …show more content…
The issue with consuming drugs so often, is that consumers think their life is better while under the influence of drugs because the drugs are creating illusions or hallucinations that their life is not a mess therefore drugs consumers avoid recognizing that their life really is a mess. The characters from the novel Drop City by T.C. Boyle, consume an unlimited amount of drugs on a daily basis. These characters all moved to Drop City because they longed for a world with no rules because of the bourgeois world that they had lived in before deciding to move into Drop City. “There were no mothers here, no social directors or parents or bosses, and for once she felt like doing her own thing” (Boyle 3). Throughout the characters experience in Drop City, some characters do not make great choices and their decisions are influenced by too much drug use. Using recreational drugs for hallucination results that can get out of control. The article, “Clinical Toxicology of Newer Recreational Drugs” states that drugs that are known to be more hallucinogenic carry more risks of intoxication and faster effects of losing a right state of mind (711). Traditional illegal drugs such as LSD, …show more content…
People can also argue that for bad environmental or emotional stances drugs are needed to survive. An example is in Rat Park The Radical Addiction Experiment, Alexander believed that people were not addicted to drugs and instead they used drugs continually to get through bad circumstances. Alexander and Patricia Hathaway did a study on rats in a Rat park in which they tested if rats would consume drug based water over regular water after only being given drug based water. The rats however avoided drug based water no matter what after being in a happy environment such as the Rat Park. The study by Alexander showed that the environment or certain emotion in which a person lives does play part into the consumption of drugs however drugs may not be such a bad thing because the rats did not result in being addicted. Alexander himself mentioned that if he was in a cage versus a happy place he would rather be high all the time because in that case, drugs would help positively. An example of another contradicament from rat park can be how Lauren the author of Rat Park The Radical Addiction Experiment, did drugs herself in order to see if she would become addicted but after a certain amount of time she was able to completely avoid drug use. Laurens husband was also under drug use for medical purpose but he claimed not to be addicted to drugs because he “lived in a colony not a cage”