Drug Problems in The U.S.

Drug Problems in The U.S.
“The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?”- Glenn Greenwald. The use of drugs through out the United States has gotten worse and worse every year, and I know that in the U.S. it is both a health problem and a crime problem. But I feel like that we should treat the abuse of illegal drugs as a matter of public health. It should be treated as a matter of public health over a matter of criminal justice because we can help people that abuse drugs and are addicted. Also well be able to get their lives on track so they won’t have to use drugs again which makes dealers go away because no one is buying their drugs anymore.” The origins and nature of the appeal of anti drug claims must be confronted if we are ever to understand how “drug problems” are constructed in the U.S.”(pg.92) –The Social Construction of Drug Scares
The question I always ask my self is what brings people to want to do drugs? What makes them want to poison their body? When the person knows the health risks of doing drugs, I understand that doing drugs makes you high and feel good, but what in their life is so bad that makes them want to poison their body. In the article listening to boredom by Joseph Brodsky, he says that boredom is the cause of drug habits in people. Because he says that people are trying to escape from it by abusing drugs. I happen to disagree with this however. I feel like that boredom isn’t the cause of drug abuse because I then everyone would be a drug addict. I think it is because of people’s curiosities, and because of that it makes people want to try things ...

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...can’t put an end to all of it but we need to least try and make an effort to stop it any means necessary. Ways that I think we could do this is educate kids earlier on the dangers or drugs and the effects they have on you, also educate adults on it too. As long as we see a change in the people towards drugs then well know that were making progress. I like to think of the quote that Aristotle Onassis once said “ Its during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

Works Cited

Brodsky Joseph-“listening to boredom, (pg.2)
Reinarman Craig-“The Social Construction of Drug Scares”(pg.92)
Sheriff David-“Use Becomes Abuse, and Abuse Becomes Addcition”(pg.78)
Tupac Shakur “Dear Mama”
Aristotle Onassis - http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/103862-it-is-during-our-darkest-moments-that-we-must-focus
Glenn Greenwald - http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/849392