Against Performance Enhancing Drugs Performance enhancing drugs should be illegal in professional sports. Players found using these drugs should be banned from playing professional sports. The reasons why are because using these drugs is cheating‚ unfair to other players‚ and unfair to fans. Using performance enhancing drugs is cheating in sports. Players are boosting their performance instead of using their own abilities. The point of playing a sport is to see which team or person is the
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Period 8 Drug Policy: A Look at America’s Ineffective Approach to Drugs Introduction In January 2004‚ senatorial candidate Barack Obama firmly opposed the twenty two-year war on drugs‚ saying that the United States’ approach in the drug war has been ineffective (Debussman). Although the term‚ “war on drugs‚” was originally coined by President Richard Nixon in 1971‚ it wasn’t until Ronald Reagan announced that “drugs were menacing society”
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Drug withdrawal symptoms A person who is dependent on drugs can be hooked on it physically‚ psychologically and emotionally. They usually crave for the drug that when its intake is stopped abruptly‚ they suffer from drug withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms vary from one person to another and their severity also depends on the level of a person’s dependence to the drug and how long he’s been using it. Some drugs produce more severe drug withdrawal symptoms than others and a person trying to quit
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Drugs - what do you associate with this word? I dare say most of you think of words such as violence‚ self-destruction‚ problems - and some of you might even think of gangs‚ wars or murders. But why has this word been so hard for so many people to come to terms with? Why is it‚ that so many of us has this violence depicted picture of drugs imprinted in our minds? Almost all conducted studies show that the claims of the media are all either exaggerated or just downright false. To understand this painfully
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Decriminalization of Drugs The current approach to the “war on drugs” in Canada is flawed. Instead of adding more enforcement efforts to the drug problem‚ less enforcement might be a better solution. The following essay will give evidence that decriminalization of all drugs can improve the lives of drug abusers‚ put the country’s resources to a better use than incarcerating people with minor offenses‚ and make a mark on the war on drugs. Decriminalizing drugs comes with a lot of questions and
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Drug Addiction A drug addiction is an ongoing need to use drugs. It is also called substance dependence‚ because the person may depend on drugs to continue functioning normally. Like any addiction‚ it involves a craving‚ or strong want‚ that is very hard to control.[1] When the addict is no longer able to use the drug‚ they will suffer from withdrawal.[2] A person usually become addicted to specific kinds of drugs‚ the use of which may or may not be against the law. A person who may easily become
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Drug Legalization/Research The debate over drug prohibition ending has been going on for decades. People worry that it will bring more deaths and crime‚ but can it really get any worse? The drug war is costly and controversial since we don’t know the outcome. It could be a better solution‚ where people realize they craved drugs because it was the forbidden fruit and it loses publicity. Or it could cause more deaths since it may be easier to obtain and there’s no consequences if you decide to
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for illegal substances would unilaterally resolve the drug problem eventually‚ although in the short run we would still have the challenge of releasing the addicted from the grips of their habits. Absent demand‚ the impetus for the drug trade -- profit -- would disappear. So‚ too‚ would the social and health costs of drug abuse. In reality‚ there will always be a demand for drugs. Some portion of every population will continue to use illegal drugs to escape reality‚ experience pleasure‚ follow peer
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DANGEROUS DEMON-DRUG ADDICTION A tunnel into the unknown nothingness of darkness. Deep‚ Eerie‚ and dark. Fear is the first thing which envelops me as I look into the eyes of a drug addict. Expressionless .Emotionless. That chalklike skin – “like a corpse”. Motionless. My eyes wander back to those eyes and my heartbeat stops at the sight of those savage eyes‚ suddenly hungry for something….or someone. Groping for something of utter need. This is the portrait of a drug addict. Drug addiction is
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Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking every year. It is an exercise undertaken by the world community to sensitize the people in general and the youth in particular‚ to the menace of drugs. The picture is grim if the world statistics on the drugs scenario is taken into account. With a turnover of around $500 billions‚ it is the third largest business in the world‚ next to petroleum and arms trade. About 190 million people all over the world consume one drug or the other. Drug addiction causes
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