Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs
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(1) The sedative-hypnotic drugs include such drugs as barbiturates and tranquilizers like Phenobarbital and Valium respectively. The effects of sedative-hypnotics like these range from relaxation and lowered inhibitions to loss of body control and passing out. Such drugs may also reduce muscular coordination or depress respiration. The effects of such drugs like these and others like Nembutal and Quaaludes are often exaggerated when used in combination with alcohol. Stimulants include amphetamines like Dexedrine, Methamphetamines, Cocaine and others. The stimulants stimulate the central nervous system, increase blood pressure and pulse rate, cause appetite loss and restlessness and insomnia. To excess they create paranoia and temporary psychosis. Opiates are also a depressant and include drugs like Opium, Morphine and Heroin. Such drugs suppress pain, lower blood pressure and respiratory rate, and can cause hallucinations, convulsions or even coma when used to excess. Hallucinogens or psychedelics include drugs like LSD, PCP and Mescaline. These drugs alter mental processes, distort perceptions and cause psychosis, hallucinations, panic, and aggressive behavior. Cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs of abuse, whose prolonged use in large quantities can cause psychosis, paranoia, and nervous system damage (NIDA 2004). Use of cocaine leads to development of high tolerance and during withdrawal users o
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llege. However, there are a number of positive benefits that come from legalizing harder drugs. One of these is an increase in price which makes drugs harder to obtain for many users, ôA kilo of heroin sells in American for as much as a new Rolls Royceùpartly because the price reflects the dangers involved in distributing and buying itö (Wilson 158). However, a number of problems are exacerbated because drugs remain illegal. One is the fact that there is no regulation of them, which makes it more dangerous to consume them due to purity concerns. Another problem is that criminalizing drugs causes a disproportionate number of poor individuals to be incarcerated, as they are more likely to use and/or distribute drugs than the wealthy. As the Economist maintains:
Drugs policy in the U.S. is thus breeding a generation of men and women from disadvantaged backgrounds whose main training for life has been in the violence of prison (Wilson 2003, 159).
I think decriminalizing drugs poses a number of challenges for society but in the long run would alleviate the numerous issues stemming from criminalizing their use.
(2) The gateway hypothesis on drug use theorizes that if relatively harmless drugs like marijuana were decriminalize
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