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    Pain Medication Drug Abuse Americans are obsessed with popping pills. Our culture believes that a pill will cure anything from the common cold to cancer. Big pharmaceuticals have spent billions of dollars developing and marketing drugs to the young and old. While drugs are beneficial in many ways, there are some major disadvantages to being a society so heavily dependent on drugs. One of those disadvantages is unintentional drug abuse. Many times a doctor will prescribe a drug for pain and…

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    Requeese: A Short Story

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    skin glow and he quickly reaches his long, pole like arm out to shut the blinds. “I can’t do it” Requeese says sadly as he drops weightlessly to the floor searching for more of his pills to make the pain go away. As soon as he is on the floor, he hears motivational voices for once. “You can get up!”, “Do not take the pills!”, “You are stronger than this!”, “The world is not going to...”. Requeese gets the ambition and strength to get himself up and call his family for help. The phone is all…

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    Recently ten people died n twelve days from fentanyl- laced pills. One of those ten people was Jerome Butler. Jerome got the fentanyl-laced pills from an acquaintance of his. The thing that is most shocking in this case was that Jerome Butler did not know that the pills he was given were laced with the potent drug. Butler was told that the drug was a less potent painkiller, Norco. Butler’s mother claims that he was…

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    And so, each night Marilyn Monroe was left alone in her bedroom, the tone of a dead line resounding in her ears. Falling into a slouch, she’d glance down at the phone cradled in her porcelain fingers, then let out a soft sigh of disappointment, tenderly placing it onto the receiver. Maybe she’d try again tomorrow, but deep down she knew her attempts were hopelessly futile. Just as futile as trying to get up out of bed and face a new day. She didn’t want a new day. She wanted a new life. Towards…

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    story. Her intelligence helps her and her brothers when they head into the pill factory…

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    telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was…

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    list is like a parasite -it never goes away- it takes away your energy, and your time. This checklist of responsibilities is the root of all stress in our lives due to the fact that there is not enough time for each task. If only there was a magical pill that not only made you focus but also gave you a surge of energy that lasted a few hours. There is a category of medication - used to treat ADHD – that when snorted can provide the user with a rush of energy, a more refined ability to focus, and…

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    The Holocaust Why did Hitler despise the jews so much? There was prejudice that had been directed towards the followers of Judaism. The jews often came in conflict with other inhabitants in the areas where they had settled because they were a minority group with their own distinctive identity and religious beliefs (Kershaw 5). Hitler stated that the Jews had not only caused the German defeat in World War 2 but also brought the war in the first place (Kershaw 34). Adolf Hitler continues to…

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    thought of when her name is said is her death. There are many different controversies of how she died. To this day, nobody is 100% sure of what went down at her crime scene. Many say it was suicide. She was found lying next to an empty bottle of pills with a telephone in her hand. It’s been known that she’d been through a lot of tough situations her whole life. When she was a child she had been put in an orphanage because her parents could not afford to nurture her. Then when she was As an…

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    ("DEBATE: Should Marijuana Be Legalized in Michigan?"). Legislation has been introduced that hopes to legalize and tax the private use of marijuana for Michiganders who are 21 and older (Wintner). Marijuana benefits people that have to take a lot of pills it can be used as…

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