Drug Abuse

Question 1

Pharmacology is a broad discipline encompassing all aspects of the study of drugs, including their discovery, their development, and their actions. This new era is a product of years of dedicated research into the causes of and cures for disease. One of the foremost problems in drug policy is the fact that drug dependency (and thus abuse) is treated as a criminal activity. Though drugs are illegal, do people with a medical condition of physical or psychological addiction need to be sent to jail? Should marijuana smoker who uses the drug responsibly in their own home with out driving under the influence of this drug be sent to the same place as violent criminal? Should a woman with such a severe addiction that she is willing to steal be placed in jail instead of given a drug at little or no cost so that she can avoid the brutal effects of withdrawal? The answer to all these questions is no. The Drug War is a failure. It has made little to no impact on the flow of illicit drugs into America, and throughout history, rigorous and harsh punishment through drug users has failed as well (Jaffe 12). The first step toward what I consider reasonable drug policy in America is to treat these drug problems as addiction instead of criminal issues. Legalization and subsidization as well as un-biased drug education (which have been proven to promote moderation (Henslin, pg. 124)) seem to be the only answer in this war on American citizens and their unavoidable actions.

Question 2

Drug abuse can result in the lost of the relationship, financial status and integrity. One of the most harmful risks is that of engaging in risky sexual activities. The effects of using drug and covering up for the abuse can lead to behaviour that causes difficulties at home. For example, personality change and mood swings less interest in family activities, increase in arguments, needing more money or stealing. Drugs also cost money, for example, a person who spends forty dollars a day on drugs, in a year time they need fourteen thousand six hundred dollars to support their drugs habit for a whole year (Zareba Moss 311-28). Most of drugs addicts so drugged up that they could not go to work, so they are probably unemployed and turn to the streets, for example, many drug users engage in criminal activity, such as burglary and prostitution for income to buy drugs and that where a rise in crime come into the communities.

Question 3

Cocaine is generally sold as a hydrochloride salt, a fine white powder substance that is commonly referred to as "snow", "coke" or "blow". Street dealers of cocaine commonly dilute, or "cut" the drug with similar looking substances like talcum powder or with active local anaesthetics and even sometimes with other stimulants like amphetamines.

The short -term effects usually make the user fell euphoric, energetic, and alert to their senses. It can decrease your anxiety and heighten your sexuality. Crack users have described ...