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The Purpose of Drug Policy

The Purpose of Drug Policy

Drugs are anything chemically based which alter your perceptions in life and give you a high that sometimes you would like to have forever. Sometimes people don’t need this high in their life all the time but for others they always want that ultimate feeling. The feeling of no worries, pain, or sorrow. Some people take drugs for the fun of it, while others seriously have a problem and are addicted to the drugs. For some it is easy to just take drugs such as LSD, snort a line of coke, or smoke a joint once but for others it may be difficult. Some people become dependent upon drugs for reasons that are their own. Some are depressed and need to get away from the “Real” reality in which they live so they continuously take a drug to escape and enter a world they like. They in turn become dependent on these drugs. Other people just want nothing to do with reality I feel that these people may have developed an idea that they need the drug just to face reality. This is a psychological dependency to me. Whether or not, to me if a person needs to take drugs to cope with reality or they feel they can only function if they take drugs are dependent upon them. This is what I feel is addiction.

During this section of the course we have discussed drug policies such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Harrison Narcotics Act. These two policies stuck out at me and made me wonder about a few things. About what would have happened if they never got passed or even thought of. Although these were harsh laws when they were passed I don’t agree with both of them. The one decreased the use of narcotics while the other contradicted itself and made people worse because they couldn’t get the drugs they needed. Since the Pure food and drug Act was passed people stopped purchasing products that were made with certain things so they could become addicted to drugs, The Harrison Narcotics Act stated that all doctors had to buy a license to prescribe medications. This was not good for the addicts that the doctors provided the drugs for because the addicts couldn’t...

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