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Essay on Illegal Drug Use
Right through history, humans have occupied in methods to alter, temporarily, their awareness. Children spin around, inducing an apparently pleasant state of dizziness. Adolescents and adults will sometimes use drugs, either legal ones such as alcohol, or illegal ones, such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, various substances, etc. Drug usage in the United States has been a continual problem. Even legal drugs can have harmful physical consequences. The mythology surrounding drug usage is that the amount used keeps increasing.
This view is perhaps caused by television and radio programs--both factual and drama--and newspaper accounts, about the drug problem and about law enforcement efforts. The television news may show the large amounts of drugs seized in a drug raid. A drama, sometimes an alleged reenactment of a true event, may show how drugs are widely used and abused. All this gives the public the sense that drug usage is constantly increasing, from year to year. And, the U. S. government has been fighting a War on Drugs, which further keeps the issue of drug usage vivid in people's thinking. There are manifold problems associated with illegal drug use in societies, but a lack of direction in relation to effective remedies.
The current initiative against drugs does little more than reallocate back some of the money already taken from welfare (and most of the money already taken from the police), and doesn't address some of the key questions. What are the main assaults upon the rights and freedom of others that such drug use produces? How could damage that users do to themselves could be avoided or lessened? What legal or other changes might reduce the anti-social effects of the use of currently illegal drugs? The paper explains how drugs can be found everywhere, and it may seem like everyone's doing them.......
