These dangerous drugs are all over our streets in urban and in rural parts of the U.S. The centers for disease control say that 100 people die every day in the U.S. from drug overdose, with prescription painkiller use being a serious offender. The prescription addiction epidemic has led to the creation of mass prescription databases, where your pharmaceutical habits are tracked by doctors and pharmacists alike in many states. The legal crack-down has made it difficult for many to obtain the drugs they are addicted to. In an effort to lessen the wave of prescription opiate addiction, the legal system has pushed many already-addicted people to a cheaper, easier to score opiate high—heroin.” (Renter, 2013) However, the regulations haven’t decreased the alarming amount of young adults who are currently addicted to pharmaceutical drugs.
Most of the chemicals used in the making of meth are highly dangerous and extremely flammable. A majority of them also come with warning labels saying harmful if swallowed may burn eyes or skin on contact, seek medical attention and drink a glass of milk or water but do not induce vomiting but yet so many people aren’t reading the warning labels anymore. In 2008, 850,000 Americans age 12 and older had abused methamphetamine at least once in the year prior to being surveyed showing that 1.2% of 8th graders, 1.5% of 10th graders, and 1.2% of 12th graders had abused methamphetamine. (National Survey on Drug Use and Health, http://www.samhsa.gov/, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
Users tend to suffer from severe anxiety, paranoia, psychosis, hallucinations, agitation and delusions. Those are the symptoms that cause users to act out violently as we’ve seen in the news. The user appetite has decreased and they’ve lost a lot of weight in a short period of time. Since bath salts are a stimulant you’ll notice involuntary muscle movements, grinding of the teeth and rolling of the tongue. Drastic changes in sleep patterns and dilated pupils are also signs that a person is abusing bath salts.
Schizophrenia is a serious, reoccurring brain disease that affects up to one percent of the world population today (Mental Health America, 2011).Schizophrenia is often misunderstood among the general public and can easily slip past concerned friends or family members of the patients suffering with this disease. Many signs of schizophrenia are closely related to that of depression or even laziness (National Mental Health Institute, 2007). Major indicators of the disease that persist for at least two weeks include: the constant hearing of voices and the feeling of being watched, feeling of indifference to very important problems, changes in personal interest abruptly or mass changes in personal hygiene, and bizarre behavior or new obsession with
MVP: Most Valuable Plant (Having written this: In no way am I a user) For the past twenty years marijuana has climbed its way to the top of the food chain as dominant drug in circulation in the United States. Its use has escalated along with its popularity. The cannabis plant can be found all around us even with the most unlikely people or places. Because it is so popular amongst users, the drug has also become a favorite for the government. An astonishing 60% of all crime is drug related and 50% of that has to do with marijuana.
It is a dangerous addiction and destroys lives. Crystal Meth is a synthetic drug more often abused by the younger generation. A survey done in 2012, by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, found that over 12 million people have tried Meth (NIDA, 2012). The mix of chemicals that are used to make the drug are toxic and lethal. It is normally made in makeshift laboratories (www.healthyplace.com/meth-addiction, 2012).
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The data procured was extremely factual. "Nearly 20% of the participants reported Meth use in the 30 days prior to the interview. Those reporting Meth use were significantly younger than non-users. Moreover, the majority (63.8%) of the sample that used Meth was white. Although African Americans constituted almost 42% of the entire follow-up cohort, they were only 6% of those reporting any Meth use.
These monsters have pushed the marijuana, heroin, LSD /PCP, cocaine, crack, and now the meth epidemics. In 2008, the White House released the ADAM II annual which reported, “Methamphetamine remains primarily a regional phenomenon. In Sacramento and Portland 35 and 15% percent of arrestees respectively test positive in 2008 for meth…Meth positives are lowest in New York (less than 1%)New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Charlotte and only slightly higher in (2-3%) in Denver, Indianapolis, Washington DC and Minneapolis. The practice of injecting methamphetamine is most common in Portland (32% injected at last use), but less common elsewhere.” (Cohen, et al.,
Because of some of the patients being linked to one another through the same doctor, the question has arisen; who is responsible for these deaths? Even in our own state, the deaths are at an all-time high. According to Jens Manuel Krogstad, sixty-two Iowans died last year from overdoses of prescription pain relievers like oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone, the report said. That’s an increase