Essays on Drug Abuse

When you turn on the news channel or read a newspaper you might come across a title like “Bronx bust uncover packaging mill with $7.5M in drugs: authorities” or “Police arrest three people during Weslaco drug raid,” or even “Border Patrol agents bust teen with...

Drugs of abuse may make the user feel pleasure, but they are also toxic. Drug abuse, also called substance abuse or chemical abuse is a disorder that is characterized by a destructive pattern of using substance that leads to significant problems or distress. It occurs...

Most studies revealed that the underlying cause of the use of drugs is the ugly relational background of the drug victims. The majority of these victims wanted to escape from their personal issues such as broken-family, unemployment and poverty and take drugs to satisfy their...

The overwhelming problem of drug abuse in Decatur, Illinois has developed into a major issue. For example, Heroin, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, prescription opioids, marijuana, and meth are being sold and used at an epidemic rate. Some cities drug problems might be worse than Decatur’s;...

Medical marijuana is one of the many controversial issues in society today. Medical marijuana has been continuous fight between the federal government, doctors, and patients. On another hand, studies have proven that medical marijuana can be extremely beneficial in eliminates side effect and is less...

Drug abuse is one of the major issues defying the country today particularly among the young. Medication mishandle is the uncalled for utilization of medications, Incidences of medication and liquor manhandle and related against social conduct have hugely expanded as of late. This has turned...

Marijuana or cannabis is becoming lawful in North America and many countries of the world. About 23 states and the District of Columbia in the United States have recently legalized the medical use of cannabis. Four states (Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington) have even legalized...

Coined by the American professor of psychology Jeffrey Arnett, emerging adulthood refers to the period between late teenage and early adulthood (Arnett, 2000). Specifically, these are the adventurous young individuals between 18 and 25 years of age. With the majority of these young adults being...

Drug abuse is rife in our society today. Our states have set aside funds to aid in curbing drug abuse, diagnose drug related diseases and solving crimes resulting from drug addicion.Although drug addict has been a jeopardy to many societies, their impacts can be mitigated...

Heroin Abuse in the United States INTRODUCTION Heroin is a highly used drug that is made from morphine, and has large mental effects on users. (“Heroin Overdose Data | Drug Overdose | CDC Injury Center,” 2017) Heroin is a widely spread drug that is used...

Drug abuse can be described as the wrong or excessive use of alcohol or unlawful prescriptions, including solution or over-the-counter medicines with negative outcomes. Some drugs that are abused worldwide and here in Ghana are: Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens, Dissociative, Opioids, Inhalants, Cannabis. For people to...

Addiction is an everlasting battle. Most people have either been an addict or had a family member, friend, or loved one battle the cycle with addiction. There are a few things that I am going to discuss around the topic of substance abuse, such as,...

Drugs have been utilized for a tremendous number of years, and have been constrained for under 1% of that time. The present War on Drugs has effectively affected society financially and socially. The remedy anticipation endeavors have had little impact on the stockpile of unlawful...

The human relation problem/issue that I choose is about drug abuse. Most sociologist and social psychologists agree that drug use is a learned behavior that spreads through the groups of peers who influenced one another. Which led me to the new idea that emerges from...

First thing first, Drug abuse is one of the top problems confronting Kenyans today. Majority of which is abused by the youth of today. Over the most recent two decades, the limbs of medication manhandle have spread so alarmingly that it is causing genuine worry...

A drug is any substance other than food that provides nutritional support that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a temporary physiological and often psychological change in the body.(reference Wikipedia) There are three...

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has expressed concern about the increasing number of children who are engaged in alcohol and substance abuse. How can guidance counselors assist DEC to curb the problem of drug abuse?Use and misuse of drugs and substance by children has become...

“The penalty for drug traffiking in Saudi Arabia is death, and Saudi officials make no exceptions” (CountryReports). In a country where the consumption of drugs and alcohol is illegal and results in long jail time, and where the death penalty is given to those smuggling...

“Drug traffickers have mixed legitimate business with their illicit activities, in part, so that the former can conceal the latter” (Woody, 2017). This is commonly done through food importation, where drugs are hidden amongst food products. An example of how this is done is evident...