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Drugs: The Downward Spiral
According to the National Household Survey on drug abuse, in 1999 an estimated 14. ... While casual use of illicit drugs, and cocaine in particular, has fallen dramatically since the early 1980’s the number of hard-core users of cocaine and heroin has remained virtually unchanged.
Drugs unfortunately are a common lifestyle choice for many people in the world today. It seems that everywhere you turn, you hear about somebody using drugs, selling drugs, and even dying from drug usage. ... There are thousands of reasons that people start using drugs. Many people start using drugs to fit in with there friends, while others start using them to deal with their home, work, or relationship stress. ... Drugs deliver something at first, but here’s how it works. ...
This is the point at which the drugs control your life and begin to make the choices of your lifestyle for you, it’s not that the drugs control your mind and you turn into a mindless zombie your body just becomes physically addicted to them and there is no longer anything that makes you feel good except for that certain “buzz” that you get whenever you are using the drugs. There are countless examples of how drugs in general have ruined thousands of lives everyday and the numbers continue to grow. ... She has been on welfare all of her life and unfortunately, my brothers would go to the point of selling drugs themselves so that they could get crack. ...
I have seen the effects of drugs first hand. ... Drugs have taken his life down a totally different track and completely flipped his life upside down. ... His casual drinking became a daily habit and his life began a downward spiral.
Approximate Word count = 1437
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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