Drug Abuse in Nigeria Essay

Happiness Introduction: Throughout the book, “A Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley predicts a world with citizens that are addicted to a government-endorsed drug. In today’s society, we are also dealing with a similar problem. The use of social media has become all to prevalent in today’s society. Analytical Portion: Due to the government-issued drug of soma, the World State’s citizens are addicted, unfeeling, and unable to cope. Starting when the citizens of the World State are young, they…

In the book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, some of the characters participate in taking soma. Soma is a drug that makes the characters feel a different way; they feel happy and distracted from the society. Mustapha describes soma as “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant” (Huxley 53). The characters in the story are pressured into taking soma by the authorities because it distracts them from the fact that there is something wrong with the citizens. The citizens lack freedom, they were…

Human being and his tendencies for alcohol and drug consumption is a matter of curiosity since the beginning of civilizations. The cultural and societal aspects of intoxication are worth analysis rather than the individualistic approach to it. As, there arises a question whether, the craving for intoxication is a natural instinct within man or if it is incorporated in him by an external agency. Every civilization and every religion has their own approach to intoxication and puts forth a…

defendant being “under the influence of alcohol, drugs or other substances that they did not know what they were doing or the full extent of their actions”. Despite the fact that the drugs were self induced, it was taken under the pressure of the co-offenders. At the time of the incident, Akon was under the influence of ice as an inexperienced user. His defence argued that there was no way that he, as a second time user would be able to know how the drug would affect him, with a strong belief…

full of anger they tend to shift to other people by being sarcastic, cynical, stubborn, resentful – to name a few ways that passive-aggression can be manifested. 3. “Let’s leave it for tomorrow” way of living There’s no question that substance abuse can make people selfish. They often lack sympathy or empathy toward others, but frequently expect others to adjust to their needs. o “It’s not fair that I have to...” o “I can’t do it today, let’s leave it for tomorrow.” o “That’s too hard and…

History in Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adolescents" hopes to address the problem of non-medical use of prescription drugs among teens and reduce risk. The purpose of the study was to identify risk factors to aid prevention of NMUPD in adolescents. In particular, the study seeks to use previous demographic and other substance use risk factors that correlate with lifetime non-medical prescription drug abuse in teens. The survey added to…

The treatment of drug abusers has been a controversial topic for decades among policy makers. There are those that stand on the rehabilitation side and others that side with criminalization and incarnation of users. With both sides of the spectrum being developed and tested out, there has not been a concise way that fully solves the issue. The side of criminalization has led to increased amount of users being incarnated which eventually destroy their chance of having a better life later on in…

The article “Embraced by the Needle,” written by Gabor Maté, is about the reasoning behind drug addictions. In this article, Maté describes how drug addictions can result from various situations and backgrounds. One thing that is common between all addictions is that they “always originate in unhappiness, even if hidden” (Maté, 2016, pp. 506). The article describes how addictions can derive from neglect during childhood; or, it could develop from a loving home with the burden of stress and…

need to survive. When an individual does drugs, I learned that our brain does not work correctly together. Our brain interprets the drugs that an individual ingests as pleasurable, so dopamine is released. This makes the human brain assume that drugs are needed for survival. Drugs change the chemistry of the brain and change what our brains perceives as our basic hierarchy of needs. After one becomes addicted to drugs their primary survival priority is drugs, followed by what non- addicted…

Substance abuse is all too common within most populations, although particularly common in lower financial class neighborhoods. People experiment with drugs for several different reasons, to enhance their athletic abilities, to simplify with stressful life circumstances, to relax, to rebel or simply because their social environment influences it. The use of drugs does not automatically confirm addiction, however the amount of influential power it is has on someone’s every day life at home,…