Psychedelic drug

1. What is meant by the term drug abuse? Drug abuse is the over consumption or excessive use of an addictive substance. Drug abuse occurs when the user consumes an excessive amount of an addictive substance, such as alcohol, prescription medication, street drugs, etc. for some type of reaction. The consumption of an illicit or prescribed drug becomes compulsive, and eventually leads to the addiction. This type of addiction is also referred to as drug abuse or drug dependency. The body…

Alexa Erickson wrote an article titled “Drug Prevention in the 21st Century: Why we need change & the program that may help.” She stated “Children aren’t receiving drug prevention messages, and 90% of the youth suffering from a drug problem don’t receive the help they need. Federal funding for these programs is largely overlooked, despite the fact that, in 2014, 47,055 people died from drug overdoses, which was 1.5 times greater than those killed in car crashes.” When looking back on her D.A.R.E…

time we take pills, we are actually gambling with our lives. Drugs that are considered safe are in reality, harmful. It is our worst nightmare because with a few pills, drugs can ruin our lives and futures. Dr. Peter Gotzsche, the Director of the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen and an author, was interviewed about drugs. He said, “Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Our drugs kill around 200,000 people in America every year, and half…

utterly mad. This fate is waiting for all those who use a drug by the name of Substance D. Philip K. Dick -a highly regarded science fiction writer who is said to be one of the greatest of his time (Metzger and Straub 88) brought this idea to life in his novel A Scanner Darkly. By referencing his first-hand experience with narcotics, Dick was able to accurately illustrate the mind of a substance abuser and portray the potentially harmful effects drugs may have on the brain; however, his novel…

Patients begin to report medications prescribed are no longer effective. While, the drugs continue to have the ability to affect their central nervous system, affecting their respiratory and cardiac systems, these individuals have developed a tolerance to the drugs euphoric effects. Hockenbury and Hockenbury (2014) points out “To lump marijuana with the highly psychedelic drugs mescaline and LSD is somewhat misleading. . . . Low to moderate doses of THC typically produce a sense…

lack of enforcement, but if the war on drugs has proven anything its that increased funding will not stop people. One could also argue its the governments fault for making all these illegal drugs people are inevitably going to do unregulated, but it would nullify their strict zero-tolerance policy. The apex of the problem lies in the education of affects these substances have on both the physical and metaphysical aspect of their body. Longterm abuse of these drugs can cause lasting detrimental…

my education. Sadly this did not bother me. My marijuana use continued into my 20’s at a consumption rate of two to three grams daily with brief unwanted, periods of abstinence. Over the next few years I began to experiment with other drugs such as hash, psychedelic mushrooms, ecstasy, alcohol, and at my lowest point methamphetamine. The hash being less than a half gram mixed with marijuana, and was very seldom used due to its high cost. Mushrooms…

outside of societies’ bounds and conformities. (Mercurio) It was quite well known that Haring was a user of psychedelic drugs, but his origins in the counterculture are clear too. He wanted to stand up and protest the government for ignoring issues he felt were important like gay rights. (Mercurio) He made of use issues that were topics of current discussion in the 1980s like the use of the drug crack for his…

Introduction: Over the years, the amount of people died from drug overdoses increased in the United States. Also, “in 2009 drug-induced deaths overtook traffic accidents as the number one external cause of death, with 39,147 deaths” (Swensen, 2014). Substance abuse including alcohol and drugs is linked to different negative social conditions, such as family disruptions, financial issues, school failure, decrease or lost in productivity, crime, child abuse, and domestic violence. In addition,…

around. The ability to get prescribed medications from a doctor has be has become a popular way of getting medication legally, but then selling it illegally. In fact, prescription drugs are now killing far more people than illegal drugs. While most major causes of preventable deaths are declining, those from prescription drug use are increasing, an analysis of recently released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the…