Psychoactive drug

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…

Good for Citizens, Bad for Regulation Marijuana is the least harmful, intoxicating drug available in modern society. We should not allow regulations to infringe upon our rights and privacy to grow for personal use. We do not make parents get a license to have or brew small batches of alcohol in the house. So, why then, should we regulate and persecute small batches of marijuana used and grown inside the home? The drug has been approved for aid in various medicinal and mental health treatments,…

illegal drugs and with illegal drugs bring crime. Drugs cause wrong decisions choose, drugs are not need making people do things that are not right, however make it so that people do not think straight. When people are not think straight they may go to make bad choices. When people make wrong choices it usually puts around them in danger which is not good to have citizens endanger ever. The Anti-drug are trying to prevent drug use as well as treating addict. The most effect in drugs…

voters say that weed should be legal for adults and another 88% reinforcing the idea of making medical marijuana legal across the U.S. Many say that it has medicinal benefits and therefore, should be legalized. While others say that it is a “gateway drug,” addictive and could lead to substance abuse. Considering these ideas, I feel proponents for medical marijuana have presented a stronger argument…

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…

Drug addiction is one of the oldest problems in the world that has yet to be resolved. Since the development of drugs, dating back thousands of years, there has been addiction to those drugs. Still today, there are an alarming amount of deaths of all ages related to drug dependency. If drug addiction has been around for so long, why has there not been a solution presented to end the drug overdoses and deaths? Unfortunately, it seems as this significant problem has been overlooked and ignored for…

What do you recommend when patients continue to relapse while taking buprenorphine? I recognize that opioid addiction is an illness, so I increase the intensity of treatment if a patient should relapse. However, repeated relapses signify a major problem. Medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine requires a great deal of self-monitoring (self-policing). Patients who are unable to self-monitor are still in need of treatment, but at a higher intensity level. Options include treatment at an…

Pros and Cons of Legalizing Weed”). Freeing up the space in prisons and jails could also free up some room in the budget of the state and federal governments. In the same context, there is a theory that eliminating recreational weed as an illegal drug would cut off a large…

Salvatorelli Marijuana, America’s Favorite Drug Many people throughout the world use drugs for numerous reasons. Drugs have been used primarily for medical uses and for recreational use. Most drugs that are not prescribed by a physician are illegal due to the effects they have on people who do them. Recreational drugs are in high demand, leading to a rise in drug dealing. Many people are arrested for buying and selling these drugs. One of the most common drugs sold and used illegally is…

The performance enhancing drug I chose to research were stimulants. Stimulants can be categorized as psychoactive drugs. Stimulants basically provide a temporary improvements in one’s mental or physical actions. There are numerous drugs that are considered to be stimulants. A few of them are fencamfamin, adrenaline, heptaminol, and sibutramine. Stimulants can be taken many ways including orally, inhalation, intranasal, or injected directly into the muscle. Stimulants typically work by increasing…