drug abuse
There are several aspects of drug abuse that should be recognized as problems created by a society’s denial, others however, are created by the simple-minded individuals that choose this path to self-corruption and/or extortion. In the following you will find several reasons why this growing epidemic has gotten out of control and how we could have prevented these events. Now that the problem has arrived, we need to learn the necessary steps to show future generations how to battle this menace and how not to make the same mistakes. We will also be looking at how this type of abuse has filtered its way into our day to day lives, from people we come in contact with to celebrities our children idolize in the media. One of the first points that needs to be established is that drugs have been illegal in this country since only 1914. Before then, the use of narcotics such as cocaine and heroin or much simpler and less harmful drugs like marijuana and opium were mostly done by immigrants to battle fatigue and hunger. “The first laws prohibiting drugs were racist in origin-to prevent Chinese laborers from using opium and to prevent blacks and Hispanics from using cocaine and marijuana” (Torr 141). Eventhough the crime rate and the consu
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Approximate Word count = 1061
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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