Category: Drugs

Every society encounters a variety of problems that it needs to address, and one of the most common is drug use among the population. Essentially, illegal substances cause a considerable addiction in people, which can lead to numerous social issues and negative effects. Specifically, drug use causes people to become less productive, stimulates crime, and…

According to Eugine Jarecki (2015), the war on drugs has not been properly fought. He believes that the government has ended up aggravating the problem when it was expected to be solving the problem. His film, The House I Live in, exposes issues that have led to the prevalence in cases of drug trafficking and…

Many drugs with antimicrobial effects do not directly kill microorganisms but block the expression of essential proteins, which affects pathogen dysfunction. The antimicrobial drug that was discovered in this assignment should have a similar effect on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). However, hypothetical claims require empirical examination, and it is for this reason that this paper…

History The history of drug use among incarcerated people could be dated back as far as when prisons and drugs began. However, there is no documentation of this history, which mean only inferences can be made from the trends and statistics. Between 2000 and 2009, the US Department of Justice has established that over 58%…

Drug addiction is a problem that concerns not only the health of particular members of society suffering from this disease but also the country as a whole. The US drug market is one of the most profitable in the world. Nowadays, one of the most critical tasks is to reduce the level of addiction in…

Delinquent and irresponsible behaviors such as substance abuse, violence, and unsafe safe practices produce serious social and health implications that contribute to declining performance in school, underachievement in life, and moral decay in society. Unfortunately, many teenagers underestimate the harmful and long-term impacts of experimenting with cocaine, LSD, codeine, marijuana, alcohol, and amphetamine. For instance,…

Previously, there were a lot of myths and lies in American culture and society. Like today, people did not understand, denied, and aggressively attacked everything they did not understand. As a result, drugs became the main subject of hatred, mythologization, and outright lies. Starting from the very beginning of the twentieth century and ending even…

The war against drugs in the United States has reached a new level. Such an outcome is conditional upon the recent measures that politicians are discussing. More specifically, they are related to the emergence of an idea to legalize drug consumption in order to decrease the number of drug addicts in the long run. Moreover,…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion References Introduction The debate revolving around the legalization of marijuana based on its therapeutic benefits is still ongoing. Although marijuana has been legalized in several states in the U.S., it is still being classified by the federal government as a Schedule I controlled substance. The table below gives…

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department should apply for a Federally Funded Grant, for the funds to be used towards eliminating the street drug markets in our local community. This will significantly benefit not only the local community by providing safer neighborhoods and also decreasing the local crime rate within the community, but also the sheriff’s…