Drug Addiction Drug abuse is an increasing epidemic in today’s society. There are so many types of drugs being abused today‚ both legal and illegal. These drugs affect the human body in many different ways. Drug abuse can lead to addiction. “Drug addiction involves the repeated and excessive use of a drug to produce pleasure or escape reality despite its destructive effects” (“Environmental Health Perspectives‚” 2005). Drug addicts believe that drugs are necessary for them to have a feeling
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significantly reduced. People constantly recognize the latent functions of the drug that is design to help them‚ and use the drugs as ploys in order to make extra money or experience some type of high. Substances that have alternative uses should be tracked or carefully watched in order to confirm that the potent drug is being used as it originally designed. Individual states have limitations and different laws concerning drugs‚ which increases the difficulty in ceasing the product of its secondary use
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Nowadays‚ the problem of drug abused is increasing seriously in the U.S.A‚ about 12.7 million people (MTF‚ 2013)and the figure is still increasing with a mind-blowing speed. Therefore‚ the question of whether the government should legalized drug is gaining more attention that it used to be. There are two main thoughts：Many people are of the opinion that the drug should be legalized while another commonly held point of view is that the drugs is absolute forbidden. Although there are truths about the
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stronger‚ faster‚ and ultimately genetically kore advanced it gets hard for anyone in specific to really stand out and compete. To achieve these goals many athletes will take extreme measures and turn to performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. The use of performance enhancing drugs is becoming more and more popular among athletes‚ many of them don’t
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Welfare Should people who want welfare be required to take a drug test? People say the fourth amendment protects them because it states “ unreasonable searches and seizures.” Welfare drug testing is a common way to make sure taxpayer dollars are used responsibly. People who have to pay for other people’s welfare because they can go into work disagree with people who even have to think twice about drug testing being required to receive welfare. Taxpayers who pay on welfare think the government is
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In 1960‚ Knut Jensen was a marathon runner at the summer Olympics in Rome during the 100km team time trial race. By using a drug call Roniacol‚ another word is Nicotinyl alcohol‚ Knut Jensen dies during Olympic competition. Performing enhancing drugs in sports is the public enemy from all over the world. Performing enhancing drugs in sports became a huge travesty when a lot of athletes built like monsters and find a winning edge to collect titles‚ Olympic medals‚ gold jackets‚ and other great accomplishments
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Drug abuse is a major problem in our society as a whole and increasingly within our youth. In recent years‚ many school districts have implemented student athlete drug testing programs within their schools. Athletes were targeted because student athletics are voluntary and the "athletes are often held to higher standards than other students‚ keeping their grades up for example" (Tantillo‚ Wen & Morgo‚ 1995‚ p. A22). "The issue of drug testing has caused a national debate that still persists. The
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Drug Use: Cause and Effect You hear about more and more people using drugs these days‚ particularly prescription drugs. Doctors may prescribe these drugs to you and you may think they are helping but‚ what you don’t know is how they may change a normal functioning person into an addict. These drugs are habit forming and can seriously harm you‚ even kill you. For Years people go to the doctor for one reason or another. Some doctors prescribe pills that can sometimes be more damaging than helpful
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"should drugs be legalized"‚ which is written by William Benett‚ argues about the legalization of drugs. According to the article drug should not be legalized because they have very harmful mental and physical affects on human beings. After reading this article I had a positive reaction towards it‚ thus I have the same opinion on the legalization of drug as this article. Drugs have been the most critical problem in the U.S for many years. A majority of American population thinks that drugs should
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The Oriental Theatre brought the streets of Hollywood Boulevard to Chicago in its Production of Pretty Woman. This Musical was a Nerlander presentation and was written by Gary Marshal and J.F. Lawton‚ directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell‚ and the music was by Will Van Dyke. I enjoyed this musical rendition of the story‚ which is originally based on the original film Pretty Woman from 1990. Being a “Cinderella-like” story about a businessman who falls in love with a prostitute allowing her
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