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What is this colored pill? I have never seen any type of pain killer with a blood drop on it. I’m trying to understand how people can take so much of a substance they know so little about until they experience it for themselves. Why does it look like some people my sister was friends with, look like they lost so much facial skin. Why can I see the bone starting to stick out from under the thin skin remaining on their face? I kept wondering what was wrong with some of my friends that I use to go to school after not seeing them for about a year. Freshmen year was when I decided that the kids I use to hang out with were in a totally different world than I was. Why do they not know or care about what is happening around them anymore? I felt like I couldn’t ask them what was wrong because the mood changes they had were totally random. A few of my friends who knew not to get into what everyone else was, told me about the chemical substances that people started to use. Why do they need these outrageous pills and powders to make themselves happy now? I’m interested because I’m not very educated on the topic and want to learn why some people I know started to use these things for enjoyment. What do they do to you? The reason why I am curious about learning how “hard drugs” affect the way people are is because I know a lot of people whose personalities have totally changed due to drug use. It’s just really weird to try to understand what it is like to be on those drugs and try to experience them without really doing them. The problem is the people who I used to know that I thought would never try something like this have done it and it has totally changed the way they act. I am not saying that because they do or have done these drugs, they are now bad people. It’s just always going to linger around in my mind that I know something will always be different about how they are and nothing can really change that back. I’m going to do as much research as I need to, to try to make an example for myself of how things like this happen and why they do happen. I do not really know of anything in common with all of my sources that I can group them together by. Dancesafe.org and Clubdrugs.org are the only two sites that I think I can relate together. This is because they both talk about what it is like to take certain drugs and then use them in a nightclub or rave. They both give similar information about the same drugs from what I have seen, it’s just reworded. No matter how much talk there is in these websites about a specific club drug there is still no 100% accuracy about their full effect. Doctor Alan I. Leshner explains this in his report about MDMA. “I would like to say there are at least two things that the research community has concluded about this drug. One is that MDMA is not a benign drug. It is a harmful drug that can damage brain cells. And secondly, like other areas of science, there is much more to be learned about this drug” (Leshner, par 12). This is just what this doctor has concluded after a report on MDMA. I know a few people that use to be hooked on ecstasy and never got physically addicted. They could stop if they really wanted to but when someone else would ask if they wanted to do some, almost without thinking they would agree to it. “Ecstasy is still not fully known to cause severe mental or physical addiction as far as we know now” (Dancesafe.org, par7). The other sources that I picked were not really similar besides the fact that they all relate to hard drugs. Erowid.org had pretty similar information as the last two websites but instead of just talking about club drugs, it talked about all drugs. That was really good for me because I am not just doing my report on drugs that people use to dance and rave with, but also drugs that I have been around as well that are not commonly used in clubs. This website was pretty different than the rest of my sources even though it gave the same information. It went into depth about how people use hard drugs to lift their spiritual self and send their imagination to different places. I found a sentence from Erowid that can relate to how the effects of LSD play a role in the sense that you are in your own world. A story from an anonymous woman who tried to use LSD to enhance her relationship with god said “At this point, time and space became a meaningless concept. It was then that I began to become aware of the presence of God. I immediately became completely overwhelmed with the sheer weight of timeless eternity, and the staggering vastness of infinity. And that was when I was ushered back not to my human existence, but to Hell itself” (Erowid, par 9). This quote clearly explains how a person can claim to use any hard or club drug for a certain purpose but can never know what to really expect out of it. The bad thing is if you are having a bad trip on a hard drug you can’t do anything about it. All you can do is wait for the experience to be over in time. The journals I researched where really interesting in the way they told facts about how people on certain drugs especially cocaine and heroin are more likely to be at risk of higher criminal activity later in the future than someone who has not done these drugs. “When a user is going through periods of heavy or addictive drug use, the frequency and severity of his or her criminal activity rises dramatically” (SIRS, par 12). The percentage of people throughout the city that use cocaine is at 42%. Another interesting fact that I found on another journal was that “From January 1988 through July 1989, 18.2 percent of the 643 New York City drivers who died within 48 hours of being involved in an automobile accident tested positive for cocaine” (Abramovitz, par 6).
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