Sociology: Meth Epidemic
Would you as a citizen be willing to go through the extra step of getting a Dr’s script for a cold to make this DRUG go away?
Meth has been a problem in the world for quite some time, since the 1970s. It started off as a trend with motorcycle gangs in the West and it soon spread throughout the U.S. to the common people. The meth epidemic in America has had a horrifying impact on families, individuals, communities, and various populations. There has been a rise in car theft and robbery crimes that meth users commit in order to obtain money to get another high. Meth does horrible things to the physical appearance of a person’s body, including the appearance of sores and wrinkled skin. A person may look twenty to thirty years older than their actual age after the constant use of meth. However, its destructiveness isn’t the effect on the skin, but the effect on the brain. One hit of meth will create a sense of euphoria in the user’s mind that they describe as something they’ve never experienced before.
The main ingredients of meth, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, are found in common cold medicines. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to control the sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine by forcing customers to have to register at the counter and get a doctor’s prescription to buy common cold medicines in order to refrain from the availability of the ingredients to meth users. I, as a citizen, am not willing to go through an extra step of getting a doctor’s script for a cold to make meth go away.
With the implementation that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is doing, a moral dilemma was created. Does pseudoephedrine have to be eliminated because a fraction of the population abuses it? It is not a non-user’s fault that meth users are constantly destroying their bodies. There are many other substances that are being abused yet nothing drastic is being done to prevent it from happening. A much larger portion of the population abuse and die from
Meth has been a problem in the world for quite some time, since the 1970s. It started off as a trend with motorcycle gangs in the West and it soon spread throughout the U.S. to the common people. The meth epidemic in America has had a horrifying impact on families, individuals, communities, and various populations. There has been a rise in car theft and robbery crimes that meth users commit in order to obtain money to get another high. Meth does horrible things to the physical appearance of a person’s body, including the appearance of sores and wrinkled skin. A person may look twenty to thirty years older than their actual age after the constant use of meth. However, its destructiveness isn’t the effect on the skin, but the effect on the brain. One hit of meth will create a sense of euphoria in the user’s mind that they describe as something they’ve never experienced before.
The main ingredients of meth, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, are found in common cold medicines. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to control the sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine by forcing customers to have to register at the counter and get a doctor’s prescription to buy common cold medicines in order to refrain from the availability of the ingredients to meth users. I, as a citizen, am not willing to go through an extra step of getting a doctor’s script for a cold to make meth go away.
With the implementation that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is doing, a moral dilemma was created. Does pseudoephedrine have to be eliminated because a fraction of the population abuses it? It is not a non-user’s fault that meth users are constantly destroying their bodies. There are many other substances that are being abused yet nothing drastic is being done to prevent it from happening. A much larger portion of the population abuse and die from