The Overview of the video “The Meth Epidemic” was about the history of meth use around America throughout the early 90’s and 2000’s, the pharmaceutical companies and their involvement, the crimes and effects the drug had on people lives. Implications for community health on the issue of the meth epidemic can be good. People within our field of work can try and help individuals who are having problems with the drug by trying to help them get off by hosting preventions classes especially in the west coast region where it’s most used out there. The class can talk about why the drug is bad backing it up with statistics and recent reports, physical and mental symptoms of the drug and how it affects people and their live to try and raise awareness. My personal impressions on this video were that it did a good job on presenting the viewers with statistics and critical information about meth and its findings nationwide.
B. Prescription drug abuse, especially the abuse of painkillers, is an issue that is all-too-prevalent today, as our nation becomes more and more dependent on medication. C. Through my studies of data and statistics by various branches of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, I have come to more deeply understand this epidemic that is sweeping our nation. Not only have I analyzed numerical data, I have also investigated many stories about the pros and cons of prescription drugs, and about cases where
Methamphetamines have made their way into major cities and rural areas throughout the United States ( NIDA “Meth…” ). As a result, American agencies, communities, and families are becoming victims because of the illegal manufacturing and abuse of methamphetamines. Methamphetamines have been classified as schedule II drugs under the Controlled
The meth epidemic in the United States has accumulated over 1 and a half million addicts. There is no question that this epidemic has created a social problem with in our society. Meth has developed into a problem because like other drugs, it creates a sense of apathy and desperation. Because of this desperation and apathy addicts become violent and mentally unstable. They do things that if they weren’t on the drug they otherwise wouldn’t do.
First of all the Mexican Defense Ministry should ease up its criteria to apply for a gun license. Fewer than 6% of Mexicans own guns legally (even small caliber rifles such as .22s) at all (Weinberg). However, 10,000 people have died in cartel related killings alone since 2006 (Corchado). This visible discrepancy between gun ownership and killings is a sure indicator that the Mexican government is doing harm to its people by leaving them defenseless against ever growing and ever violent cartels. If the process to own a gun in Mexico was less stringent, more people could procure guns to protect themselves with.
Legalize It Every year in America billions of dollars are made illegally, thousands of people are imprisoned, and even more people lose their lives to drugs. On a broad level, illegal drugs ruin whole communities by perpetuating the disease of addiction and engulfing neighborhoods in the gang violence that inevitably comes with illegal drug trafficking. On a more personal level, illegal drugs ruin lives by making people turn their backs on loved ones and causing them to throw away their dreams. Most people agree that a problem that is this pervasive and expansive must be dealt with, but few can agree on a solution. There is only one practical solution.
It causes violent behavior, anxiety, confusion, and insomnia. Taking Meth for a long period of time can also be the result of some psychotic features like paranoia, hallucinations, mood disturbances, and delusions, like the feeling of insects creeping on the skin. People on Meth become more dependent on others like family members or those close to support their habits and take care of them. People in this state of mind cannot care for themselves and usually find others with the same habits to hang around and support each
Methamphetamine is one of Americas biggest enemy, it causes millions of tax payers money. B. Thesis: Methamphetamine the that drug kills many, saves none. Yet no one is doing nothing to stop it. Main Point#1: Methamphetamine is brought from Mexico, or made here in the United States. A.
Drugs have been out of control in the past few years, and the numbers have just continued to grow. One of the main drugs being abused is Methamphetamine. In today’s society Methamphetamine has sky rocketed to abusers too people cooking this drug in their own homes the numbers are outrageous. Methamphetamine is a horror drug once you use it your addicted. Meth addiction harms the body in a horrific way, the drug is made up of chemicals that can kill a person also leading to the addiction, and in order to get over the drug it’s a continuous battle the person must want it for themself, and have the strength over their own mind they can’t be weak or they will fail and relapse.
There are ways that can help this problem be controlled. There is a number of facts concluding how drugs came here and are affecting other countries as well as ours. There are also times that I have actually witnessed some instances of drug trafficking myself in bad neighborhood that I have visited, also neighborhoods where I have lived that are very dangerous due to drugs being distributed in that area. In about 1969 there were high amounts of marijuana entering the U.S. through Mexico, the U.S. Customs Department starts an Operation Intercept system. Sometime in 1973 Richard Nixon Started the Drug Enforcement Agency, to take a more stronger control on eliminating drugs and the distributes.