Say No to Drugs Essay

“Deviance is in the eye of the beholder,” I say in the “eye of the beholder” because everyone has their own form of deviance. I have always been a deviant child in my household, I never did what I was told and I always went against my parents back to do things. I was the child of the household who started going to parties with my friends and getting drunk at the age of 14. I mostly acted out of spite towards my family and did anything that I wanted to do because I didn’t want my family to…

if you are a good citizen and it shows that you are mature enough to handle adult responsibilities then they should be give to you. Justin McNaull was one of the teens that would agree with me. In his article “What is the Age of Responsibility?” he says that he was a police officer that has been in multiple positions in which he had to drive a car at a very fast speed, at times even 100 miles per hour. The thing that befuddled McNaull was that even after these experiences, obviously showing he…

we see issues with drugs, whether those are prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, or illegal drugs. It is easy to get addicted to a drug, especially if you take it for long periods of time. The fact that young adults,…

mechanism of drug interaction and contributing factors. Read Chapter 10 and in your own words explain why surgical patients and patients hospitalized for infections are considered high risk for drug-drug and/or drug-food interactions. Part 2: Next, find an article in a medical journal or on a drug information website that involves one or more patients experiencing a severe drug interaction. Discuss how the article or research affects patient risk associated with drug-drug and/or drug-food…

will of the higher-ups. Huxley was trying to make a connection between his writing and the world he lived in through his use of details, tone, and diction. In his time period, people were easily swayed and deluded by their culture, government, and drug dependency. To begin, one way that the government brainwashes its citizens is through the way they have declined the standard of society--moral and cultural decay. Huxley uses details to describe how society has gone downhill. In chapter one,…

Michelle Alexander wrote an interesting article about how people in the U.S are ‘blind’ when it comes to racism called “Drug War Nightmare: How We Created a Massive Racial Caste System in America”. She says that the racial discrimination seems to be fading away but everybody is just ignoring it. She wrote this essay to make people realize that everybody needs to wake up and notice what is happening to the people who are part of the American society. Her essay is very effective and makes us…

In 2014, America had a violent crime rate of 365.5 per 100,000 residents and a murder rate of 4.5 per 100,000. It is easy to blame that violent crime rate on drugs. Alcohol is the most abused drugs today. Back in 1920s, many people including the President thought that drinking is a serious problem. Organization like the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-saloons organization saw that alcohol is the reason for high crime, violence, and poverty, unemployment, and corruption in cities.…

American citizens support the legalization of marijuana, but do not want it smoked in public. A study done by Pew Research Center says forty-four percent of Americans want it to be illegal and fifty-three percent say marijuana should be legalized. This means Americans are in favorite of the drug being legal by a slim margin. The same study also states that if the drugs were legal and it was smoked in public it would bother sixty-two percent of Americans. That study shows more Americans do not…

apparent drug overdose; his body is assumed to have been there since Thursday afternoon. As a teenager/ adult it is easy to get caught up in the wrong things. Peer pressure, self-esteem issues, and the continuous need to fit in can cause us to do unhealthy things. After extensive research and a personal connection to the harmful effects of drug use, I am here to bring awareness to the drug problem in America. There is an increasing amount of drug related deaths in America. The increase…

might change their behavior and attitude. One reason appeal to fear is the best motivational force is, in paragraph 5 of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Edwards says “The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them,” (42). Also, in the article can kids be scared straight it says, “visibly shaken, all of the teens vowed that they would rehabilitate their lives; they did not want to end up behind bars (Feinstein28). This evidence supports the…