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Drugs Cause Addiction by Affecting the Brain Drug addiction is a chronic illness that affects the brain. It develops when a person is no longer able to live normally without taking a particular drug. Drugs that people abuse often include alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, opiate, marijuana, ketamine, amphetamine, hallucinogen and heroine. Each of these drugs affects the reward system of the brain. How people become addicted to drugs People become addicted to drugs when doing either of these things.…

few that I see on an every day basis. My community is infested with drugs. Individuals are selling drugs on almost every corner. It is so easy to get your hands on almost anything and everything you are looking for whether it be weed, heroine, crack cocaine, Percocet, xanax, (etc). The drug dealers do not care about what they are doing to the community. They will serve drugs to anyone, in front of children, in front of your home, and I have even seen drugs being sold to a woman who was nine…

Street Drug Addiction in Nevada Street drugs are defined as “substances purchased from a drug dealer; may be a legal substance, sold illicitly (without a prescription, and not for medical use), or it may be a substance that is illegal to possess.” Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Street drug abuse is a recurring pattern of use that causes detrimental personal, professional, and social consequences for the user as a result of using drugs. Specifically, in the case of street drug abuse, the use of…

Does parental exposure to cocaine predispose offspring to develop a cocaine addiction? The effect of cocaine use on fetal development has been a hot topic since the drug reached the height of its popularity from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. A large number of research studies on the teratogenic effect of cocaine emerged in response to the so-called “crack baby epidemic.” The results of these studies were often exaggerated or flawed, reporting that populations exposed in utero would have severe…

My childhood was not easy; it consisted of struggling through a broken home. As a young child I dealt with a drug addicted mother and a life filled with poverty in Oakland, California. My mother was addicted to crack cocaine, and could never keep a steady job due to her addiction. There were times in our lives where my brother and I went without food, water, or electricity. My father and mother divorced when I was still a toddler, and he was rarely present and provided no financial support.…

Cocaine is one of the oldest and the most dangerous drug that migrate through the United States. Studies have proven to show that coca leaves were used to get the heart racing and to speed up the breathing pattern. Coca was also used for religious purposes during ceremonies. There were also rumors saying coca was the cure for depression. In the eighteen hundreds coca was know as the “magical substance”. During these times there wasn’t many people to against a study. There were about five…

of coca in the world. Their production has increased greatly, the FARC control almost all of the drug trade business, and the eradication program is failing. Colombia is the biggest cocaine producer in the world. Peru and Bolivia are the second and third top producers, and this country is pumping out more cocaine than both of them combined. Not only is Colombia the top producer, but production is still on the rise. There has been a 34% increase. That is a 60 ton increase! Antioquia, a…

harder issues. Lastly, Hart introduces the fact that drug policy and enforcement has been racialized throughout history. He starts off by showing an article published in 1914 that states that murder and insanity was increased among blacks that took cocaine. The…

drugs. When this happens, the person doing drugs will need to do more and more of the drug to get the same feeling.” Cocaine quickly invade the dopamine-carrying cells when enters the body. Because of the ability to bind cocaine molecules with these nerve entrapment cells is very strong, it can easily occupy the original dopamine position. when the dopamine position is full of cocaine filled, it cannot find the storage location. So, it can only be forced combined with its receptor to…

Proposed Solution to Reducing the Rate of Prostitution in America Street Prostitution is a type of prostitution where women solicit customers from public places, such as streets, street corners, parks, etc… Society should be concerned about street prostitution for several reasons including but not limited to public health, personal safety, and spillover effects as statistics show a connection between street prostitution and street drug markets. As of now, the police responses toward…