Say No to Drugs Essay

Alcohol kills more people then drugs, but only one is really recognized. Threat to adults and kids everywhere, alcohol is becoming the #1 killer of people, so why hasn’t anyone made it illegal yet? In the past years alcohol has become the number one cause of death among teens and adults worldwide; it kills more people than all other drugs put together. Alcohol is addicting just like drugs, that’s why Following right close behind alcohol deaths is drug overdose. In 2007, 12,998 deaths in the…

Risk Factors for Girls For more than three years, CASA examined the reasons why girls and young women use drugs and alcohol. “The Formative Years” is the most exhaustive study of its kind. Researchers spent the time trying to find out why girls and young women use drugs like tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, Ecstasy, and prescription narcotics recreationally. The study found girls had different reasons for using substances than boys. They determined girls are not only more vulnerable to…

Marijuana be legal? “THC triggers your brain to release large amounts of dopamine, a naturally occurring “feel good” chemical.” from healthline.com.Marijuana is a drug that takes you to a happy place opposing ridiculous actions such as those from drugs like “bath salt”. Like all drugs, marijuana has side effects but so does the drug nicotine that is inside of a cigarette.” Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.”…

Oye I. Owolewa wrote the article “what the district could do to help curb prescription-drug abuse” this overall is about cutting down drug addiction by having effective solutions to get rid of medications at home. The author makes a good point that “almost two-thirds of teenage prescription abusers get the medications from home or friends”. Proving that having a safe way to discard medications can lower the rate of abusers because they won't have easy access to their parents or friends…

Prescription medication drugs are quick and efficient remedies to help ease any chronic pain or discomfort in the body. However, 20% of the U.S. population has admitted using prescription medication for nonmedical reasons in their lifetime. The increase of prescription drug misuse has led to a higher percentage in emergency room visits because of accidental overdoses and treatment programs for drug addictions. Although they are implemented to medicate physical discomfort, the broad accessibility…

he says, “ thinking he might of sipped just a little bit too much of the cough syrup.” He also argues that this drink is very addictive and is influencing our youth. Lean is a addictive cough syrup(promethazine) mixed with sprite that most rappers drink. He uses pathos with the beat, because it gives you a feeling that something bad happened. Macklemore doesn’t uses a lot of ethos in this song but some are when he explains the consequences he has been through by being addicted to these drugs.…

Drugs have always been a major problem in the United States of America, a lot of people use them and many people always get in major trouble for them just because of the possession. In the United States, the most common, illegally used, drug is marijuana. Based on many different facts, and statistics, I believe that we should legalize marijuana, and decriminalize other major drugs. There are countries like Portugal who have decriminalized drugs, and the results are incredible, this is why I…

Salvador Dali is credited with having said, “I don 't do drugs. I am drugs.” Dali was not only a world famous artist known for painting, sculpting, and photography, for he was also a drug addict. Dali has bluntly described how he and other addicts feel while they are in the clutches of their addiction. They feel as if their drug of choice has dominated their lives, and they have lost their identity, and free will to it. Occasionally, however, the drug addict does not consider that losing…

There are two sides to the drug problem in America; it is a simple fix or it is a lost cause. There is no happy medium. Some would say, it is not drugs that is the problem. It is a poverty problem. Bennett thinks this is a solvable problem. Legalization is not one of his solutions. It would create total chaos in education, the work place, on highways, and in emergency rooms. He believes that legal drugs would lead to a substantial rise in the crime rate. Alcohol and drugs being legal at…

Why do so many people rely on drugs to forget about all their problems that they face? In Denis Johnson’s short story Emergency the topic is highly discussed, as how the characters use drugs in order to not think about their normal everyday life and how they try to escape reality by getting high off the pills from their work. In doing so, Johnson presents a conflict of man vs. himself, in which he tries to forget about his problems and act as if everything is okay when in reality it is not.…