Drug Issue And Substance Abuse - How To Fight Them

By Steve Richard


Recent years have shown how much drug issues have negatively affected our culture and modern society as a whole. This springs form the fact that with modernization things are always evolving with new stuff coming into the global scene. Now drugs have also taken a wrong turn. Now people are more skilled and adept at deriving the maximum high even with the minimum amount of drugs at their disposal. Substance abuse, indeed, is already deeply ingrained into modern society and there seems to be no escaping it.

This is a bad habit that is frowned on by society in general. However, not a lot of attention is accorded to it. Addiction and loss of life are the biggest results that arise in substance abuse. Alcohol, for one, has earned worldwide recognition, thanks to the many product and brand variations. Yet, the drug has managed to bring many into bondage of abuse it, making them take alcohol like prescription drugs - three times a day. Abuse of alcohol, otherwise known as alcoholism, has now become a social problem. But the law seems too complacent when it comes to preventing drunken individuals from committing unsavory and dangerous acts. They will only put them behind bars or punish them accordingly after a crime has been committed or an accident has already taken place.

To be more precise, however, our fight against substance abuse is centered on the prevention of the distribution and usage of hard drugs. All over the world, these drugs are declared illegal or unlawful. That does not, however, stop this from being such a lucrative business. The price tag attached to even the smallest amount of any of these hard drugs is not enough to stop those who are addicted to it to do everything they could in their power to buy them. After all, they do not feel they can survive without their regular fix of the drug. Cocaine, meth, heroin, are just some of the common hard substances abused today.

You will find that the ones responsible for the mass distribution of these substances across the globe are often billion dollar companies. Take nicotine, for example, which is an addictive substance found in cigarettes. The substance will distort the mental state of its users, while the smoke will lead to cancer. For years, a war on tobacco smoking has been brewing, and in some countries the war is won and cigarettes are totally burned from being openly sold to the public. Others are even proposing that the laws governing the smoking of marijuana should also be applied in the same manner (and weight) to cigarettes.

You would notice that this fight against substance abuse that is being waged globally does not hit on the users of the drugs or even the peddlers where they directly procure the substances from. It's the "big fish", or the companies that manufacture these drugs that are single-minded being pursued. But all those efforts are always stonewalled and getting little headway because these big fish have friends or connections who are among the authorities who are supposed to be the one enforcing it. This has caused many social and activist movements to shift their gears and use other tactics. Now they are resorting to information dissemination and increasing public awareness about the negative effects of letting these drug issues go unattended and uncorrected.




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