Painkillers: A Growing Epidemic I visit my grandmother every month at her house. We relive all of the happy moments we shared when I was growing up. On my latest visit‚ she did not want to talk about the good times we shared‚ and seemed almost annoyed I was there at all. After searching around her house‚ I noticed an empty bottle of prescription painkillers. I remembered her telling me the last time I talked to her that she was starting to take a new prescription pain medication‚ but that
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particularly in Colombia‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ and smuggled into the United States and Europe‚ the United States being the world’s largest consumer of cocaine‚ where it is sold at huge markups; usually in the US at $80–$120 for 1 gram‚ and $250–300 for 3.5 grams. Crack cocaine is the most popularly used version of cocaine today. Smoking cocaine rocks began in the late 1970’s. Rocking-up cocaine powder and smoking it was originally the method developed so distributors of cocaine could test the purity of the drug before
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Crack cocaine can cause people to go insane and do things they would not normally do if they were sober. One of the main side effects of crack cocaine is aggression. The emergence of this drug in black communities caused many Americans to label the entire population of the African American youth as dangerous drug users. Cocaine had once been characterized as a high-class drug‚ due to the cost of the drug. As crack became more accessible to lower class communities
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Child Pornography- Becoming an Epidemic? The internet can be a useful tool when used for the right reasons‚ but what about the wrong reasons‚ such as child pornography? Child pornography is growing in astounding numbers‚ it is gaining more popularity every year and there is still not enough legislation to help slow it down. Society has become overly sexually stimulated‚ simple sexual pleasures are now not enough in many people’s minds‚ which may lead to harmful‚ unhealthy sexual desires
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In "Crack and the Box" Pete Hamill explains why he feels that watching television in excess has the same effects on you as doing drugs. He begins to state that both drugs and television have the effect of escaping a person from reality. If you are blocking everyone out while your watching television you are doing pretty much the same thing as you would drugs because using drugs make you feel like you are in your own little world like television can make you feel if you let it. Hamill’s idea is
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The Power of a Versatile Mind The human mind is a remarkable machine. Depending on what an individual needs‚ the mind change its own perception in order to fit the needs of the individual. The mind can sometimes sense or feel things that are not actually there‚ as well as ignore things that are there‚ depending on what the individual chose or needs to sense or feel. Of course‚ this control is not infinite. There are limitations to just how much someone can control‚ and not everyone is capable of
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THE SHAKESPEARE Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon in England allowed South African researchers to analyze 24 pipe fragments in Pretoria. Though marijuana degrades over time‚ eight of those pipe fragments showed signs suggestive of marijuana‚ the scientists said. Two of the pipe samples tested also showed evidence of cocaine. Others showed traces of tobacco‚ camphor and a chemical with hallucinogenic properties‚ the study said. "We do not claim that any of the pipes belonged
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The Epidemic of Teenagers Abusing Drugs Krystyn Romualdo COM/156 November 18‚ 2012 Jackie Hudspeth Jr The Epidemic of Teenagers Abusing Drugs To have known so many people that have struggled with drug addiction in their teenage years it has become very apparent what a vital time in one’s life it is to know the dangers of abusing drugs as a teenager. Even though not all teens abuse drugs‚ it is an epidemic in the United States because more teens are turning to drugs to escape or use out
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Professor: Cheryl Williams BLS 150 WHY DO CRACK DEALERS LIVE WITH THEIR MOTHER’S Topic: Crack Epidemic Speaker: Steven Levitt Discussion: The discussion was a comparison between a gang and a business. Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford’s Professor of Sociology and author of “American Project” and “Gang Leader for a Day”. Sudhir risked his life to study a gang in a housing project in Chicago where he was held hostage for a night and went back the next day and was then allowed
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