Essays on Addiction

Cocaine. Alcohol. Smoking and vaping. The newly legalized marijuana. All of these drugs are used to put the user in a temporary high. Unfortunately, the high can be addictive that will end with the user abusing the drugs. While medical drugs will have a positive…

Over the past few years, there has been a rise seen in the number of people misusing opioids resulting in an opioid crisis. Global News reporter, Liny Lamberink, explains how this misuse of opioids has been the cause of death for thousands of people across…

The essay is about the use of medication to address behavioral conditions, though it can be beneficial to some individuals, but it has unknown effects. The medications are used to correct behavioral issues have assisted in solving behavioral disorders which were previously mistaken for some…

Tobacco is an agricultural crop, most commonly used to make cigarettes. It is grown all over the world and supports a billion-dollar industry. Its leaves are dried and fermented before being put in tobacco products. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4000 chemical substances including particulates…

Researchers mostly emphasis on the usage of alcoholic homebrew, tobacco, kava and marijuana consumption is across the board in Fiji, as in other Pacific countries. These refreshments more often than not contain up to three times the alcohol substance of industrially largely created and drugs…

Frustrated Issue: Expiring Medical Supplies I’ve found out that most medical supplies have drug expiration dates above the set limit of 0.005%, but it was frustrating to note that all these resulted from overstocking; poor prescription tendencies by medical practitioners; poor stock rotation, delivery of…

On September 4th, I decided to attend a global cultural event with a friend of mine. The purpose of this cultural event was to present the social injustices taking place in the city of Hebron through a documentary film and an open panel discussion. Prior…

It’s 6PM on a Tuesday night. The sun is going down, because in the winter in Ohio, night comes at 6PM. On my computer screen is an article about the human-technology relationship. This includes “smartphone addiction,” but is a broader study of how smartphones, laptops…

The article that I choose is about the government policies for tobacco in Turkey which causes addiction problem, but at the same time it causes health problems such as lung cancer, and increases the risk of heart attack and death. As my article support, the…

Drug use has occurred throughout history for thousands of years, for both recreational and medicinal purposes. There are even many types of drugs, including marijuana, opium, and tobacco. However, one may wonder how it came to be that some of these drugs became illegal in…