Drug Abuse Essay

Institute on Drug Administration (NIDA), the overall costs spent nationally for illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco is 712 billion dollars (2016). In 2013, the amount of American illicit drug users was 24.6 million people (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHA), 2013). Addiction affects everyone in society, directly or indirectly from the families,…

By witnessing their close family members engage in drug use, the children have learned that drug use was considered “okay” in their social circle, therefore positively reinforcing the idea that they too should indulge in drugs. This reinforcement has led to an increase in juvenile drug charges, which subconsciously makes the child believe they could not become something better later in life. Also, the child endangerment…

disadvantages of allowing students to take smart drugs. People who are against this notion suggest that it is unfair because the students are cheating to get ahead. However, I will argue for the notion that college students should be allowed to take smart drugs. College students are young adults who should be free to choose to do whatever they think is best for them. Putting a restriction on students will do nothing seeing that they will take the drugs regardless. This issue is important because…

As sports programs become more and more competitive, and as drug use among high-schoolers is on the rise, in some districts, mandatory drug testing is becoming popular. Drug testing is being implemented as a necessary tool to determine ineligibility in athletics as well as other extracurricular activities in school. These tests not only reduce drug abuse among student athletes but they also indirectly protects the health of athletes as drug use is diminished. In addition, this disciplinary…

surprise that when drugs that have proclaimed to increase cognitive capabilities such as memory, motivation, and attention, their use dramatically increased. These drugs called cognitive-enhancing (C.E.) drugs and they encompass a wide varying class of drugs. Many C.E. drugs are over-the-counter such as Priacetam and caffeine. Other C.E. drugs require prescriptions and more effective, and it includes Adderall, Modafinil and Ritalin. Students use over-the-counter and prescription C.E. drugs in…

Drug abuse often indicate patterns. In the book, Social Problems, there are several graphs depicting trends among individuals who use drugs. The first table shows the percentage of those who have ever used drugs and if the individual has used the drug in the past month (Kornblum and Seccombe, 2017). Alcohol, 66% and Marijuana, 44% are at the top of the list of those who have ever tried the drug; whereas, Heroin, 1%, Steroids and Methamphetamine, 2% were at the bottom of the list (Kornblum and…

fairly young age ranging from 10 to 17 years old. Usually the victims have something in common like past abuse from family whether it be sexual or physical, in and out of foster homes, and runaways. Women and children are targeted by men and other women when they are poor or seen to be naive in their decision making. This allows the pimp or trafficker to have comfort for them. Children that are drug through life living home to home and running away is a sign to traffickers that they are wanting…

The problem, however, is that when drug users are convicted, their student loans can be denied. This is the exact opposite of what our justice system should be doing. We should be helping them grow to become better citizens, rather than make barricades that prevent them from becoming productive members of society. With the price of college tuition skyrocketing it is nearly impossible to pay for college while working an unskilled labor job. This leaves them in the predicament of working a low…

became prevalent in the civil war with professional pit proliferating. There is a lot of animals getting abused every year and people aren’t doing anything about it. Animals shouldn’t be abused, and it needs to stop. There are many types of abuse that happen all around the world. The most common one is dog fighting. Dog fighting is where the dog has spent his entire life out on a short heavy chain and is in isolation. Today many people are fighting dogs even though there are…

rape and sexual assault of a child under 13 in November 2013 (BBC NEWS, 2013). Thus, his total sentence is for 35 years. Besides, he induced his young female fans to help him to satisfy his insatiable sexual desire and also involved in the sexual abuse of their babies. Their name cannot exposed due to…