One of the most apparent drug threats Nevada is exposed at is heroin. Highly addictive, black tar is the kind of heroin that is commonly found in the state. In fact, there has been an increase in the use of this drug. However, low quality heroin is also readily available to those who can only afford that much. Since the number of heroin addicts is increasing, the call for a drug and alcohol rehab center in the area is a must.
People who usually take Crystal Meth seek the pleasure from the chemical reaction in the brain and a hyper effect on the body systems. People who use Crystal Meth will experience hyper activity and won’t be able to properly sleep and will become lazy. People who take Crystal Meth appear normal, but for many years of taking the drug, the hidden effects build up. Methamphetamine addiction is very damaging to the body and mind. Bad temper and social difficulties are obvious effects.
Also, one of the main ingredients called THC as a hallucinogen will disturb users’ sensory experience. “THC causes animals to misjudge events,” reported Ronald Siegel (Myers116), which means that THC would increase the dose of cocaine Houston takes because after taking marijuana, Houston was unable to realize that she had overdosed on cocaine and kept taking it. Therefore, taking marijuana and cocaine at the same time results in a chemical reaction to drive users take more cocaine, which strengthen depressed feelings eventually. Xanax, as an antianxiety drug, relieves users’ nervous tension by slowing down the movement of chemicals in the brain that may cause unbalance of chemicals, and it will calm central nervous system to cause sleepiness as well. So the dizziness caused by Xanax makes Whitney Houston unconscious when she was in a
Crack Cocaine: A Devastating Substance Abuse Disorder Alisha Nalezinek Northwestern State UniversityAbstract Crack cocaine is a drug that hurts the lives of many people including the substance abuser. People need to find a safer way to escape from their problems. In the 1980’s, crack cocaine spread across the United States and became very popular. Crack cocaine is a form of cocaine that it typically smoked, and it will be on the American drug scene for years to come. People that use crack may become violent, but it is a cheap drug to buy.
What Wal-Mart actually costs the community as opposed to what they give back is substantially off kilter. The fact that thousands of their associates in each state have to rely on government assistance just to survive, and the dollar figures that come out for the taxpayers pockets is staggering. Wal-Mart employees have cost the taxpayers $1.5 billion in government provided assistance in 2005, because their employer will not provide them with adequate healthcare plans. That was 8 years ago and I can only imagine that these figures have gone up. Wal-Mart has also caused the property value of buildings in these small towns they invade to plummet.
Without anything to fall back on, rent can become missed which will lead to eviction. Losing a job can also happen without being ill. Many jobs are being outsourced, and there is a decline in manufacturing positions that were once easy to obtain. In 2009, when minimum wage was $7.25 an hour, an individual could work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year and earn 15,080. That salary is less than the 17,170 which is what is needed for a family of three to reach the poverty line.
Andres Torres Vermillion English 1 4/26/2012 Outline: Meth Abuse I. Introduction: A. Background: Methamphetamine is smoked with a pipe, or injected through the veins. It is a very addicting drug. Methamphetamine is one of Americas biggest enemy, it causes millions of tax payers money.
In Los Angeles at City of Angels Medical center they were recruiting homeless people off the street to fill there empty beds paying them with cash, drugs , clean beds, showers and 3 warm meals a day in exchange for there using there names and Medicare numbers to charge a wide variety of made up services to Medicare. I’ve watched numerous things on the internet you tube and read articles while I was writing this report. All of them said that Medicare fraud doesn't seem to be a major concern Not even to the fraud line for Medicare. Hundreds of thousands of people try to report fraudulent charges on there Medicare report that they receive in the mail each month some of them being said to have received prosthetic limbs and these patients aren’t even missing any limbs, yet still are having these claims some worth $30,000 to $50,000 put on there
Joe Fromer Psychology 9/16/15 Prof. Becofsky Three Well-Thought-Out Paper Ideas 1. How did cocaine become so popular in America as well as its direct effect to brain function? Cocaine has been a major drug in the United States since the mid 1970s and it has gotten even popular this day in age. I’ve always been curious to as why cocaine addicts are addicted to cocaine. Why can’t they just stop?
The plan was to reduce the amount of drugs being manufactured and sold as well as trafficked throughout the world. Nancy Reagan in 1984 launched a “Just Say No” campaign and her husband Ronald Reagan in 1986 signed the “Anti- Drug Abuse Act” of 1986. The longest cross-border tunnel in U.S. history was discovered in 2006 Present day the war on drugs has turned into Transnational (reaching beyond national boundaries) Organized Crime on drugs during the Obama Administration. This proves that organized crime exists all over the world in the United States (North America), South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Asia, and Europe. Not only are these crimes becoming violent and involving money, guns, and sex, but also murder.