Drug Dealers in Lab Coats

The most of us think opioid addictions starts in the street corner? do you agree or disagree?

Drug Dealers in Lab Coats

“ In the 1960s, for example, 80 percent of Americans hooked on opioids begin with heroin”. “ Today”, “77 percent of people with opioid addictions began with prescription painkillers. The slide starts  not on a street corner”. This is the thought from Nicholas Kristof in his New York Times article “Drug Dealers in Lab Coats.” Unfortunately most people think opioid addictions starts in the street corner. Drug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in the world, because they are harmful to the user and the people around that user, they lead to crimes, skipping work, skipping school, and they use up society's resources.

In society we face a number of problems. We face many different problems from one thing to another. . But the problems that cause the most problems these days are drugs. The drugs cause bad decision making, committing crime, and gets people very addicted to bad habits. Common bad habits of drug use are: skipping school, skipping work, and not paying bills. First, skipping school will get you nowhere, because when you skip a lot of school you will get kicked out. Because of drugs, drugs make people do bad things. Skipping work is just going to get you fired and that will look bad on your record( If you ever do  get another job).Also then you wouldn't be able to afford rent, insurance, bills, and whatever has to be paid. once that happens you would lose everything.

If you continue your drug use, you would  make bad decisions. In the article, “77 percent of people with opioid addictions began with prescription painkillers. The slide starts  not on a street corner, but in a doctor's office.” They are  not only street, drug are everywhere.  Imagine a world where there are no drugs what so ever. We wouldn’t have to fear as much about crime. No more worrying about what you chose to try because it wouldn’t have drugs in it. No more worries about what kids are doing when parents don’t know where they are. Without drugs, the world would be a better place - less crime, less bad decision making, less addicted people, and less whackos in our society. If our world would be drug free, wouldn't that be great?

‘Since 2000s, more that 200,000 Americans have died from overdoses of prescription opioids”.The consequence of a deliberate strategy to make money by ignoring public welfare”.  The majority of the people using  drug are from everywhere and  most of the people are overdosing  with prescriptions. For example , people who ever get sick they take a medicine like Advil and Tylenol.  People are taking this every  four to six hours later because they feel good when they taking it. But it's these kind of drugs that they won't think that. ‘Latin drug lords and Americans pharma executives lost their humanity when they saw the astounding profits that could be made”. Whoever is selling drugs they don't think about other people. They make lots of money so they don't care about other people.

In conclusion, Drugs in the present day are causing people to make bad choices and bad decisions. Drugs aren’t necessarily making people do things that aren’t right, but make it so that people don’t think straight. When people don’t think straight they tend to make wrong choices. When people make wrong choices it usually puts people around them in danger, which isn’t good to have citizens endanger ever. Also, It is said that the majority of high school students have witnessed illegal drugs being used in their schools, illegal drugs being sold, illegal drugs in the possession of students, students high on drugs and students that are drunk. We have to stop this. I think the parents should feel strongly about drugs in schools that’s why they don’t control their child and, as a result we won’t have drug-free schools. The danger from the drugs is too great to ignore. We must  do something now to save our society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/opinion/opioid-pharmaceutical-addiction-pain.html