Past and Current Drug Trends
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Abstract
The following paper will explain past and current trends of the use and abuse of illegal substances in the United States and ways in which American culture encourages and supports drug use and abuse, and the cultural appropriateness of using narcotics for medical purposes
Past and Current Drug Trends
Substance abuse in the United States has a historic national and economic array of reasons. People could have access to and abuse drugs because of its illegal availability and a very systematic expansion of drug dealing business in metropolitan /urban areas around the country. Reports by NIH and APA, disclose the marked increase in the abuse of drugs by younger and younger teenagers, even children and young women. The health costs are intractable when an otherwise, healthy, and young body grows damaged by abuse of drugs and allied self-destructive and harmful behaviors, like gang membership, in the gangs involved in drug dealing, prostitution in case of mostly females, who once addicted with sell their bodies, for more drugs, and general trend in teens, across US public and private schools, where much spoiled and affluent of youth will heavily abuse drugs.
In past situations drug abuse was limited to specific and socio-economic groups of people: uneducated, indigent, and involved in some type or form of criminal activity to raise money to continue to feed their drug addictions. With the media glamour-sing drug addition, youth distancing themselves from their caregivers for a variety of reasons, sad loss of positive role-models in the society, unethical businesses allowed to be carried on, in the drugs deals, internationally to bring the drugs in the country, all surfaced into this social ill today, in which anyone with money and is misled to finding ‘comfort and numbness’ in abusing drugs, somehow has access to drugs. If not stopped, each second, there goes one more young ruined and poisoned life into the realm of death, leaving some large amount of...
The following paper will explain past and current trends of the use and abuse of illegal substances in the United States and ways in which American culture encourages and supports drug use and abuse, and the cultural appropriateness of using narcotics for medical purposes
Past and Current Drug Trends
Substance abuse in the United States has a historic national and economic array of reasons. People could have access to and abuse drugs because of its illegal availability and a very systematic expansion of drug dealing business in metropolitan /urban areas around the country. Reports by NIH and APA, disclose the marked increase in the abuse of drugs by younger and younger teenagers, even children and young women. The health costs are intractable when an otherwise, healthy, and young body grows damaged by abuse of drugs and allied self-destructive and harmful behaviors, like gang membership, in the gangs involved in drug dealing, prostitution in case of mostly females, who once addicted with sell their bodies, for more drugs, and general trend in teens, across US public and private schools, where much spoiled and affluent of youth will heavily abuse drugs.
In past situations drug abuse was limited to specific and socio-economic groups of people: uneducated, indigent, and involved in some type or form of criminal activity to raise money to continue to feed their drug addictions. With the media glamour-sing drug addition, youth distancing themselves from their caregivers for a variety of reasons, sad loss of positive role-models in the society, unethical businesses allowed to be carried on, in the drugs deals, internationally to bring the drugs in the country, all surfaced into this social ill today, in which anyone with money and is misled to finding ‘comfort and numbness’ in abusing drugs, somehow has access to drugs. If not stopped, each second, there goes one more young ruined and poisoned life into the realm of death, leaving some large amount of...