Say No to Drugs Essay

Drug abuse is a very tragic problem that affects almost everyone in someway shape or form. There is a very thin line between recreational use of substances and substance abuse. Being under the influence may cause some to act irrational and dangerous. Company owners have often took onto drug testing to try and stop the problems of drug abuse in or around their workplace. The problem with this is some people do not want others to know what they do on their free time, and under the fourth…

cost of how many people are in there are too much and others say it’s not too much because crime is down even though there are millions of people are in jail and half a million are there for drugs we should still treat them like criminals. The War on Drugs could be seen as a lost war. Some studies show that there are 500,000 people in jail for drugs (3). The cost for all the people in jail is costing tax payers millions. The use of drugs in the world is estimated 230,000 million people 90% are…

she cheated by using EPO, as this gave her an unfair advantage over her competition. I can say this is an ethical issue as she knew she was taking something that was not allowed and that her competitor weren 't allowed to take to improve her performance, which brings her morals as a person under scrutiny. By having poor morals it brings up the case of ‘how many other are taking performance enhancing drugs?’. Well it said Liza is only a part of 1% of people caught using…

topics in America. There are people that say marijuana is a gateway drug, which means that using marijuana will lead to the use of more hardcore drugs like speed, cocaine, ecstasy, and/or heroin. In an article published in 2012 called Marijuana is not a Gateway Drug by Bruce Marken explains his reasons on why he believes marijuana is not a gateway drug. He provides information about two studies that show that there is no links into why marijuana leads to other drug use. Bruce Mirken has some…

The argument on whether drugs should be legalized has been going on for so long now. Some people say as an Americans we have the right to choose whether we want to do drugs or not. It is really hard to control the consumption of drugs, because people are going to do them whether they are legal or illegal. Other people say that the laws that are being enforced now are good to control drugs. “There will also be more unpublicized fatal and maiming crashes, more job accidents, more child neglect,…

Should middle schoolers be drug tested? Drug testing is normal procedure in a number of circumstances. In fact, we have whole institutions set up around drug testing Olympic and professional athletes as well as those at the collegiate level where money and potential careers are on the line. However, now the practice has moved down into high schools. In nine states, it is now mandatory for participation in extracurricular activities in junior high, and some parents are saying things have gone too…

not affordable. Cary Byrd from eDrugSearch says, “Medications are often cheap for people with insurance, but the average cost of prescription drugs without insurance can be expensive”. For most people, they can’t afford a medical insurance because most insurance are also expensive,and does not cover all the medication that is needed, most people pay for medication on their own as out of pocket expenses. For example, cialis…

Student athletes should just say “No!” People who take and use steroids can have serious side effects. For instance males can develop things such as breasts, shrinking of testicals, infertility, and male pattern baldness, and heart/liver problems. On the other hand women can develop things such as excessive growing of body hair and male pattern baldness, and heart/ liver problems . All student athletes should be drug tested before they are allowed to play sports because drug tests prevent…

Athletes and drug use Athletes using and abusing drugs was the everyday topic people talked about in the year of 2001. There were many questions that were being brought up in sports fans conversations of professional sports using drugs. One of the most frequent questions asked, and being talked about was if the professional athletes that were using performance enhancing drugs would that be concerted illegal. The fans were asking if it should…

middle school students should be drug tested? Here are three reasons to why people agree, and why people disagree. Did you know that some parents say that this is unconstitutional? Students who were randomly drug tested were also less likely to use drugs in later years, and most kids have actually learned how to cheat at these tests! In the first place, some parents say that this is unconstitutional. These groups of people believe that having their children drug tested should be against the…