The Article I choose is Hard Drugs in the Military by Harold E. Hughes. This briefly explains the copious amount of drug use in the Military‚ specifically focusing on the Vietnam war. In todays society drug usage is heavily linked to depression and loneliness. Similarly two hundred thousand troops in the Vietnam War where not in combat units meaning that they had to much time on there hands. The troops began to experiment with heroin found in southeast Asia. As said by Harold E. Hughes “narcotics
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Alcohol is the Most Dangerous Drug in the United States Alcohol is more harmful than any other drug. Despite this fact‚ alcohol is still legal in the United States. There are many types of illegal drugs that are well known for their harmful consequences to humans but it is‚ in fact‚ alcohol that causes more harm than all of the illegal substances. A 2010 study by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs ranked alcohol as “most harmful” drug on a list of 20 drugs. Alcohol ranked higher than
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Drug Legalization and Trafficking in Australia. Drugs are substances that change a person’s physical or mental estate. The vast majority of drugs are used to treat medical conditions‚ both physical and mental. Some‚ however‚ are used outside the medical setting for their effects on the mind. These are referred to as recreational drugs and many of them of are illegal in Australia. This is where the law is applied. Illegal or illicit drugs are drugs that are not permitted by law; meaning people
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Drug Abuse Doesn’t Happen to Just Bad People By Jessica Groves Does doing drugs automatically make you a “bad” person? Of course there are those out there who become bad people as a result of being addicted to certain drugs. Drugs are pretty easy to come by‚ and even easier to become addicted to. Especially in today’s economy‚ many people have a variety of problems‚ from peer pressure to past traumas to mental illness. Many people addicted to drugs are just trying to deal with their personal
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A drug is defined as a substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or introduced to the body and it’s important to understand that drugs‚ while often helpful‚ can also be harmful. Prescription drugs are often prescribed to patients to help overcome their ailments but some drugs can become addictive and potentially dangerous. Many people argue that drug abuse would decrease if drugs were decriminalized. These people are often referring to illegal street drugs‚ yet they fail to consider
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Illegal drug use is admittedly a serious social and medical problem in the United States and in many other parts of the world. The existence of drug users in the modern times necessarily entails the existence of drug suppliers or sellers. The government has legislated ways of dealing with drug abuse and trafficking. In 1988‚ Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act that penalizes abusers of illicit or controlled substances in the bid to control the problem of drug abuse (U.S. DEA‚ n.d.). While it
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INTL 4997: The Mexican Drug trade | Reading Response #3 | | | Audrey Robert | 10/31/2012 | | David Mares gives us insight into the political economy of drug trafficking in his book Drug Wars and Coffee Houses. To help us understand how psychoactive substances are organized and distributed‚ he uses the concept of a commodity chain. A commodity chain is the system that links consumption of psychoactive substances to everything that makes it possible‚ and proves that if something
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College drug testing Do you think that colleges should drug test their students? Well I am going to tell you why colleges should do drug testing‚ or why they should not do drug test on their students. You will hear about the laws and rights of these students being tested. Is it unconstitutional to drug test a student randomly? Why should colleges use drug test? Colleges should do drug test to first of all make sure no students/athletes are doing drugs‚ second they want to make the game play fair
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the ongoing drug war. The drug abuse that this nation has been through has grown exponential in the past decade. The nation is going down a never-ending hill. The outcome of this war could not be stopped. As few have accepted‚ the drug abuse cannot be contained. Just as Gary Mendell said “There is no single way to end the addiction crisis that has ravaged so many communities”‚ there is no containing the drug abuse to single town or community.(Katel) Due to the on growing of new drugs‚ the authorities
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War on Drugs and the Correlation to Crime and Violence Martha Mendoza Arizona State University CRJ 408 Drugs and Crime Word Count: 1‚186 “In the nine years from 1980 to 1989‚ the arrest rate for possession of drugs increased by 89%‚ from 199 to 375 per 100‚000 population” (Belenko and Spohn‚ 2015‚ p 117-118). The 1980’s contemporary War on Drugs established by Ronald Reagan lead us into a more retributive era of drug law enforcement. Changes in laws were rooted
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