Essays on Heroin

Methadone is the generic name of an artificial narcotic which has been described as a safe and effective medication for pain but is also used in dealing with addiction to opioid substances such as heroin and morphine. It prevents patients from experiencing withdrawal symptoms thereby reducing their dependence on such substances. The popular brand names…

            Many of the known illegal drugs today were once legally sold over-the-counter and used in public and private domains. However, throughout the 20th Century, these drugs were slowly illegalized because of people abusing them and the discovered harmful short and long term effects pf these drugs on the user. Most of the illegalized drugs…

Decriminalization vs. ProhibitionThe idea of Drug Prohibition made sense: lower the availability of drugsby the use of law enforcement. Unfortunately, Drug Prohibition means heavycosts while proving to be ineffective and counterproductive. I was thirteen when I saw drugs for the first time. I was with some ofmy friends that live down the road from me….

In Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, two brothers grow up in the ghetto of Harlem, a poverty-stricken place where heroin use is common and crime is high. Sonny, the younger of the two, is portrayed as a troubled young adult who desperately tries to get out of the negative environment that threatens to destroy his…

A sedative drug is used to make the user calm down or to make them sleep, or even worse according to which type of sedative drug is used.A stimulant drug is used to make the body work faster which increases the heart rate.A pain killer drug is used to reduce pain, also entitled as an…

There are many types of drugs, and they have many different effects on the body. Drugs can kill those abuse them in 3 different ways: by overdose, through side effects or bad reactions, and as a means of committing suicide. Some drugs may cause both murderous and suicidal behavior. The hallucinogens, especially PCP, are infamous…

During the 1970s through the 1990s drugs were everywhere you turned your head, recreational drug use was at an all time high. It made its way through the higher social classes of the suburbs all the way to the lowest social class areas in the inner cities across America. People who abused street drugs such…

Background Study Drug maltreatment is a cause of concern to all states around the universe either in developing states and undeveloped states and in both instances the most affected are the young person, . Due to the rapid addition in drug related offense and drug maltreaters in Asiatic states, the constitution of effectual countermeasures for…

In the past decade or so, there was a significant number increase in usage of heroin and crack. In the article Intimate Apartheid, the author talks about ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors in California and their interactive relations amongst African Americans, whites and Latinos, although mostly focusing on the tension between blacks…

Why drugs should not be legalize We ask ourselves what are these great risks on us consuming illegalized drugs. We are constantly exposed to all sorts of illegal drugs especially young adults at school, parties and even on the local beaches. Were surrounded by it all through out of lives, being pressured to consume them…