Sugar is one of the most addictive substances on earth and it thrives in America. It is said to be more addictive than cigarettes‚ cocaine and crystal meth. Rock candies are one of the many candies that people all over the world enjoy. Rock candies are created by using water and sugar with a process of heating and cooling. Pretty simple concept on how to create rock candy‚ but a lot more is involved with the chemical process and the history of rock candy. Sugar used to be used for medicine
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It’s so easy to say things like “it’s their fault why should we care?” and just blow off the subject. In Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell‚ everyone in the town knew there was lots of meth and there were lots of people cooking it. They knew how to get it‚ where to get it‚ and who was cooking it. No one really cared much about the fact that they were dealing with illegal drugs. Even the police knew about the issue in the town but not
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Teen Drug Rehab One of the largest problems in society today is teenage drug abuse. Youth are getting a hold of drugs and abusing it younger and younger every year. Teenagers start abusing drugs because they are trying to fit in‚ they are depressed‚ they are bored‚ or they are even trying to grow up like one of the celebrities they admire. Parents should talk with their children about the dangers of drugs because facts show that “teenagers whose parents talk to them regularly about the dangers of
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water or alcohol and injected. Smoking or injecting the drug delivers it very quickly to the brain‚ where it produces an immediate‚ intense euphoria. The pleasure also fades quickly; users often take repeated doses‚ in a “binge and crash” pattern. Meth negatively affects the brain similar to cocaine by increasing the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine‚ leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain. Dopamine is involved in reward‚ motivation‚ the experience of pleasure‚ and motor function
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harsh consequences against it. Over 20 million people in America have been arrested for selling‚ having or using marijuana since 1965. More than half the United States wants to legalize it. Marijuana is an all natural substance unlike cocaine‚ crystal meth‚ or even cigarettes. And alcohol is not even a natural substance. It is not bad. There is no record of marijuana ever killing anyone except people who drive under the influence. But no one has ever died from a drug overdose from marijuana. Or someone
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on drug use ruined his career‚ as he developed health problems and the drugs affected his play. After playing overseas‚ he was arrested again for heroin possession and use in a Dunkin Donuts in Portsmouth Rhode Island‚ and eventually turned to crystal meth. After finishing his career‚ he decided to truly turn his life around. His promising basketball career which should have ended with him as a respected star of the sport‚ instead was marred by seven felonies all drug related. Instead of winning
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opposed to abusers or manufacturers of drugs such as methamphetamine. As such‚ methamphetamine abuse rates rose‚ nullifying the decrements in cocaine abuse rates. Crystal meth‚ or methamphetamine‚ is relatively easy to produce and at the time‚ became drug of choice for the poor who were turned off of cocaine8. The effects of crystal meth‚ however‚ are far detrimental than that of cocaine. Therefore‚ while Reagan’s targeted drug did diminish in popularity‚ he had‚ unwittingly‚ worsened the drug situation
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TEEN CHOICES LITERATURE REVIEW- ADDICTION INDEX Section 1: Introduction................................................................................................................pg 3 Section 2: Descent into addiction...............................................................................................pg 4 Section 3: Turning Point.............................................................................................................pg 5 Section 4: Rehabilitation...........
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forget about unethical things to survive like stealing and prostituting. By the time she was 17 she found a job and got her own place. Her drug addiction took control of her‚ “Today I sold all of the furniture in my apartment because I need some crystal [meth] (p 234).” This is evidence that her drug problem spiraled out of control. By the time she was 24 she realized her life had gotten out of control. With the help of Cupcake’s relatives she got cleaned up. She finally admitted to her addiction
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Methamphetamine (meth‚ crank‚ speed‚ crystal) Methamphetamine is a very powerful and addicting narcotic. Though it is a Scheduled 2 narcotic; it is readily availability on the streets for a considerably cheap price. An addiction to methamphetamine can totally disassociate a person from his or her everyday life. Methamphetamine was first synthesized in 1919 by Japanese scientist A. Ogata. During World War 2 methamphetamine is given to troops to increase performance. In the 1960’s methamphetamine
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