War On Drugs
...far the government has been unsuccessful in finding an effective solution to this national crisis. As of now, the vast majority of governmental funding to solve the issue is going towards military operations in South America to stop the problem from the source, the growers and traffickers. This might seem like a reasonable ploy, to stop the problem from its source, but the use of illicit drugs amongst American citizens is growing more and more. The Department of Labor indicates that drug use is rising by looking at the growing number of positive work related drug tests. (Substance Abuse Information Database) This war on drugs is truly a waste of tax dollars.
A good definition of the word drug is a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body. Drugs can be classified into different categories: medical, illicit, and simple. Medical being such products as aspirin, illicit being drugs such as cocaine, heroin or marijuana, and simple being drugs such as nicotine, or caffeine. The drug war focuses only on illicit drugs, these being the strongest non-remedial and the most forbidden drugs on the market. These drugs have intense abilities to temporarily change the natural structure of our bodies and brains.
Why do people deliberately change the biological functioning of their bodies by using these drugs? Illicit drugs are a way for people to temporarily escape from their normal, sometimes strenuous realities and change the face of their personalities. During the high, the user feels more at peace and feels invincible. It is a short-lived bliss.
Cocaine is a very serious problem in the United States. In a lab study, a scientist found that monkeys who are addicted to cocaine will repeatedly press a lever more than 12,000 times in order to receive a cocaine injection (NIDA- Director's Report to the National Advisory Council on Drug...
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