Generations and decades of drug abuse?

Question

What do you think the Generations and decades of drug abuse have done to our society, to our DNA, to our World?

Answer 1

There has been drug abuse for thousands of years, not decades. It hasn't changed our DNA. Substance abuse has always been a part of the world as long as there have been humans able to smoke, eat or inject plants or other substances. It hasn't had any more of an effect than racism or classism or many other self defeating behaviors and habits.

Answer 2

I can only speak on what its done to my town. It has ravished it. This place is a shell of what it use to be. Its common to see zombie like people piled up in the bathroom at the gas station. We have a re-hab here that brings users from other towns so when they "get clean", they get out & start walking the streets with the new connections they made in there. At medicaids expense. Probably 10-20 thousand dollars worth of treatment. Its a 3 month program. Around here, it seems like all the people I went to school with are either addicted or Overdosed & dead. I believe the only answer is to drug test and incarcerate immediately if they fail. Thats the only thing to keep someone clean. This world has a big problem coming to them if they dont get a grip on the drug use. Some of the best & most useful minds will have fell by the wayside.

Answer 3

I'm assuming you are talking street drugs. I would like to add the damage the pharmaceuticals have caused also. I don't know about DNA damage. That may take a bit of research. And how do you view this DNA damage? Restructuring? I think this is a very interesting question and will think more on it.

Answer 4

Were you aware that Cocaine was legal until the end of the 1920's? It was one of the ingredients in Coca Cola! It was advertised as a Health Food product, as was Morphine.

The Peace Love Dove crowd of Timothy Leary began a societal Decline in the 1960's and everything was REALATIVE! This led to one designer drug to another! It's cheap, brought in by Illegals and Makes fast money. It drives up the crime and prostitution rates...It is not inherent..It is a lifestyle Choice that is detremental to entire societies, cultures and destoys families.

Answer 5

well, i do not think it made a huge impact on DNA nor the world because there just aren't enough people abusing hard drugs in order to screw things up majorly... i think that more people seem to be doing them now, and i think in the future we may have a small problem in our society with drug abuse... there are plenty of people out there now that are abusing drugs, but not enough to make a huge impression on society.

Answer 6

If the use of mind-altering substances is as old as humanity, its abuses and misuses have not always been as obtrusive as today. With U.S. economic growth, drug abuse became one of the most salient social problems in the early 1800’s.

In order to understand its effects on the individual, his/her worldviews and society, drug use and abuse should be understood as socially constructed phenomena. In other words, the meaning attached to specific drugs and drug use patterns is determined by how people –especially powerful people-- interpret them in everyday life.

Today controlled substances are constructed as extremely undesirable, even dangerous. However, history shows us that many of these same substances were once viewed favorably and had considerable social value. For example, it may be difficult to believe that use of a drug like cocaine, for example, was at first viewed positively.

In order to become one of the most powerful capitalist and democratic nation, the U.S. needed to develop its economic growth. The early 1800’s marked the blooming of international trade between China, England and the US, thus turning a luxury, opium, into a commodity. With the international trade of this opiate began a series of drug wars known as the “Opium Wars.” With time, economic and cultural influences, drug trafficking became and remains a major determinant for major nations’ political and economic systems.

At an international level, it is easy to conclude that governments, policy makers and other important figures have used drug usage and abuse in shaping and justifying crucial economic and political change. Drug abuse and its trades still prevail in the economic and political structures of the world today.

Knowing the political and economic aspects of narcotics, we can imagine why our governments have not spent more time in developing more successful drug rehab, in trying to put an end to the heavy traffic, drug abuse and addiction. So far, government based programs have all failed. The so-called “say no to drugs” campaign has proven to be a farce only. Statistics proved it. In 2004, a research had been conducted in a specific area of the United States. There, 240,515 individuals aged 12 or older had been reported with a substance abuse problem (We can only imagine what the actual number is) In 2005, the report counted 243,220 of them.

In regards to the effects of drug abuse on the DNA and/or genetic profiling,
Genetics researchers have confirmed that people with a different form of a certain gene are more susceptible to drug and alcohol addiction.

Scientific research has proven that drug abuse eventually alter neurobiological structures causing addicts and children of addicts to have what is known as “an addictive personality/mind.”

The more an individual abuses drugs, the more salient his/her addictive gene, sequentially, the more chances his/her children will develop drug abuse related disorders.

Drug abuse destroys what Jung refers as “the collective consciousness.” With its rise go both respect and sacred. Indeed, I think drug abuse has a spiritual aspect in that it “kills” trust and at times faith. To loose a child is terrible and an act going against nature. But a family who looses a child because he/she refused to live (overdose, AIDS, suicide and other drug abuse related deaths) is cursed. Albeit new scientific data on the subject, our society still holds a determined attitude and stigma against addicts. I believe it is another reason for drug addiction to be so prevalent today. In order to help addicts and make drug addiction history, we must try to re-define what substance abuse is, its role in society, what causes drug addiction and the elements that make an individual prone to addiction. To put the label “shame” to its name is only doing one thing: Turning an already serious social problem into a contingency.

Answer 7

well-known i imagine no longer. numerous human beings addicted to drugs are the first of their households. also weed isn't any that widespread of a deal and maximum persons improve out of it or use it responsibly and that's basically as healthful as cigarettes or alcohol.

Answer 8

Look how most of the young generation looks and acts,that should answer your question.....................