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Huemer argues that a few different arguments that drug war advocates advance are false. One of the arguments Huemer targets is the Harm to Users argument. For this question, lay out the harm to users argument in premise-conclusion form and explain why drug war advocates who like this argument think that each premise is true. After doing this, identify which premise Huemer uses the Howard case to undermine (i.e. identify which premise the Howard case is supposed to show is false). Then, explain…

The Philosophical Question at issue: Are drug addicts responsible for their actions when they chose to use again. Technical Terms: Author’s Thesis: Society cannot morally condemn drugs addicts for not being able to overcome their dependency, since their upbringing can catalyze their inclinations towards using these addictive substances. Author’s Argument: John Hospers was a philosophy professor at the University of Southern California and a well-known author for several ethics books.…

The Effects of Medicalization In the novel “Blood Medicine” by Katherine Sharp the reader is taken through a story about Mark Duxbury, a drug salesman, his stirring lawsuit, and his fight against big-pharma. The book shows how Duxbury faced the corporate giant for exploiting innocent patients, and the regulatory weakness surrounding pharmaceutical drugs and the way they are advertised. The novel forces the reader to question the growth of medicalization in daily life through the story of an…

Legalization of the drug is one of the rising issues in the United States. There are some states in the United States, who have legalized drugs, which were once considered illegal in other states. Today, every individual has different views about the use and the legalization of illegal drugs. The behavior of an individual, not any affect him or her but also affects the people around them. Whereas, in the 21st century, everyone has the will to choose for themselves and everyone is well aware of…

Journalist Sarah Thornton wrote the book on ‘Club Cultures’ at the end of the ‘acid house’ movement and the raves within the ‘Madchester’ scene had finished. The rave scene was starting to become more mainstream therefor losing the desirable effect it had on the individuals within it. Because of this, moral panic that had specifically centred around drugs started to lose its newsworthiness. The main theme that seems to run throughout the text is the topic of subcultures and more specifically,…

The Heroin Epidemic According to Josh Katz, “drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, and deaths are rising faster than ever.” It doesn’t matter your age, gender or social status, heroin affects people of all kinds. It’s a crisis 30 years in the making. (“Chasing Heroin”) The danger from drugs is too great to ignore for us and our children. Drug addiction dates back centuries, but the crisis we are now facing started in the 1980’s when doctors loosely prescribed…

Did you know that 19.9 million people in the U.S, which makes up 8% of the population, consumed some sort of illegal drug in the past month? In the 1960’s, drugs became more popular among the youth as a sign of political opposition and rebellion. Due to this sudden shift in drug usage, the government demanded medical research to evaluate safety. On June 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. He immediately imposed actions such as no-knock search warrants and mandatory…

A lifeless mother suffers a heroin overdose. She lays comatose amid the aisle of a Massachusetts Family Dollar, and the morose ululation of her daughter erupted upon social media, for a bystander recorded the distressing incident. A hopeful young man, one week following his rehabilitation discharge, died inside of his Colorado home, allegedly overdosing on a fatal sedative and opioid overdose. (The Opioid Crisis, Peter Katel). The heroin and opioid crisis continually fluctuates within the United…

profitable jobs in America (Levitt and Dubner, 2009). A college student at University of California, Sudhi Venkatesh, performed research on how it felt to be black or poor? He went into the poorest and most violent community in the nation: the southside of Chicago. While getting data for his project, Venkatesh was jumped by a gang called the Black Gangster Disciple. The gang held Venkatesh captive, afraid he would reveal some of their secrets.The leader of the gang, J.T., agreed to let Venkatesh…

After almost half a year from the incident, the memory of my irresponsible behavior of drug use on that Friday night still comes up in my mind constantly like a nightmare, reminding me what I could have done negatively to myself, my family, and even the UCSD community with one of the worst decisions in my life. Although I was extremely fortunate that my decision did not cause any severe aftermath eventually, it was absolutely a remarkable and scary lesson that I will always remember to…