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American Drug Abuse

Kelsey Liles
Pat Patterson
Engl. 1301.081
6 March 2002
American Drug Abuse
Our society has found itself directly in the middle of a transcontinental drug surge. An estimated 23 million of the world's population regularly take illicit drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that 13.6 million of those who habitually used illegal drugs in 1998 were Americans. Even in our current everyday motions of life and productivity, we have set the path for self-destruction. "We awake to the kick of caffeine, soothe our nerves with tobacco, ease our tension headaches with aspirin, wind down the day with alcohol, and swallow an antihistamine to help us sleep – all perfectly legal, respectable, and even expected ("Drug Abuse" 195)."
The first solution that comes to mind is to punish the individuals that choose to use these illicit substances, just as they seem to punish the members of society that choose to be drug free. To use this solution effectively you must compose......


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