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DRUGS AND THE EFFECT THEY HAVE ON OUR CHILDRENS LIVES
Drugs
DRUGS AND THE EFFECT THEY HAVE ON OUR CHILDREN’S LIVES
Good health allows us to be strong, happy, smart and skillful as we can possibly be. The worst thing about illegal drugs is that they damage people from the inside. Our minds and bodies run like fine tuned machines when we take care of ourselves. Doctors prescribe medicines (which are legal drugs) to heal our bodies when we are sick, but dangerous drugs are not recommended by medical professionals.
The largest problem with use of illegal drugs, as well as cigarettes and alcohol, is among our young adults. Products like wine, beer, liquor are very harmful for our children because their bodies and especially their nervous system are still developing. It is stated that cigarettes and alcohol kill more people than cancer and car accidents caused by drunk drivers than all other drugs.
Illegal drugs can cause brain damage. These drugs are “psychoactive,” which means that they change our personality and the way we feel. While under the influence of these drugs we are more likely to endanger our life as well as somebody else’s. These illegal drugs are very addictive and they are very difficult to stop. An addict’s body craves the drug and becomes dependent upon it. The drug-user may even become sick if the drug is discontinued and this is why so many people, children and adults, become a slave to these drugs.
More than 100,000 people die every year because of drinking. Children are twice as likely as adults to become involved in fatal drunk-driving car crashes. Half of all assaults against girls or women involve alcohol. Drinking is illegal if you are under the age of 21 and could be arrested for this crime.
Nicotine is also very addictive. Once we start smoking it is very difficult to stop and smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer and other diseases. Statistics indicate that tobacco and nicotine related diseases kill more than 400,000 people every year. Each day more than 3,000 kids begin smoking and one-third of them will probably have their lives shortened because of tobacco use. Children who smoke cigarettes are almost six times more likely to use other illegal drugs than kids who don’t smoke.
Another common problem among our youngsters today is inhalants. Some documented incidents include a 13 year-old boy inhaled fumes from cleaning fluid and became very ill within a few minutes. The boy’s friends told his parents, who then took him to the hospital and was put on life-support systems immediately, but his condition didn’t improve. The doctors did everything possible for the boy, but he died within 24 hours. Another incident is an 11 year-old girl collapsed in a public bathroom because in inhaled a container of butane from a plastic bag. Other people in the bathroom tried to revive her but she never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead. Some other products, that our found in our own homes, that children inhale to get high include gas from the propane tanks that are attached to our grills in our backyards (they put in a bag), glue, spray paint, correction fluid, markers, furniture polish, gasoline, hair spray, nail polish remover, shoe polish, turpentine, degreasers and the list goes on. Inhalants damage the brain and other organs and they can be just as dangerous as illegal drugs like cocaine, heroin, and sometimes even more dangerous.
We as adults and parents should make our children aware of the risks they are taking with their health and with their lives. But I believe our body’s best friend is to guard our mental and physical health by staying away from these drugs and inhalants and making sure that our children understand by taking drugs and inhalants is a very foolish thing to do.
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Fascism and its Defining Elements
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Fascism and its Defining Elements
From the realms of political philosophy, Fascism is considered as a governmental tendency where administrative institutions present dispositions of autocracy, tyranny, and dictatorship. Considerably, regimes applying this style seek to convince citizens that the interests of the nation are more important that individual and civil rights. Thus, the latter can be forgone at the expense of the former. Other major characteristics include forceful crackdowns on opposition systems by use of state resources, political and social regimentation, and existence of other dictatorial features.
The defining elements of Fascism seek to assert the position of the importance of nationality and continuation of ideas of nationalism. Thus, such systems design nationalistic slogans, songs, and other forms of paraphernalia that aim at enhancing nationalism. Further, national security stands out as another major obsession of fascist regimes. In this sense, individuals are governmental institutions establish military and police institutions whose main functions are to intimidate perceived opponents of the system. Such units receive preferential treatment to ensure governmental demands are implemented. This is also accompanied with obsession with punishment of crime that is commonly implemented unlawfully.
In relation to other societal institutions like religion and education, the enlightening ability and power of such institutions commonly gets taken away and consumed into the government. Thus religious institutions almost intertwine with the government; developing what is almost a case of state religions. So is the case of media and communication channels like television, radio, print, and other forms of broadcast. In fascist systems, such institutions are either state owned or extremely controlled. This reduces enlightenment and ensures successful perpetuation of fascist tendencies.
On the other hand, it is worth noting that most Fascists come to power through the support of corporate institutions. As a result, most corporate institutions receive unquestioned government protection. This is irrespective of whether they carry out business in ways that affect the masses negatively and exploit them.
In considerations relating to individuals, Fascists start by not recognising human rights and freedoms. Thus, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings, and detention without trials commonly occur. In extreme cases, torturous tendencies are also identified. Markedly, most Fascists use the ideas of insecurity and solidifying the collective national interest so as to perpetuate these unacceptable elements. Also, Fascists frustrate enlightenment and intellectualism with individuals attempting to enlighten others getting arrested or banned from activity. As well, the collective ability to bargain for wages as well as collective labour power get suppressed extensively.
Corruption, misuse of national resources, and sycophancy also stand out as other distinctive marks of Fascist regimes. Governments are characterised by lack of professional approaches in implementation because appointees are not professionals but rather cronies and sycophants to power holders. Still, ministers, state secretaries and other office holders have overwhelming and uncontrolled power and authority over resources in their dockets. To this end, they commonly loot and misuse such resources. Commonly, the system has sexist and gender discriminative trends where most officials are purely male.
Probably, the most outstanding defining element of Fascism is fraudulent and commonly rigged elections. This is because it is through this means that Fascists set themselves into power. After initial establishments, Fascists employ all state resources including state forces in re-rigging elections to ensure they continually remain in power.
In Sum, Fascism is definitively characterised by continuous election frauds, corrupt systems, oppression of individual rights and the use of ideologies of national security and nationalism to perpetuate undemocratic suppression. Elementarily, it is autocratic and dictatorial.
Drugs and drug Abuse
DRUG AND DRUG ABUSE.
Urban centres in Kenya are growing at exponential rate and majority of dwellers are young people exposed to drug abuse behaviour. Such behaviour is prevalent among urban dwellers and attention must be given by the governments and other social watchdogs. Given this scenario, we need to understand more about substance abuse with basic aim of how to eradicate the vice. We need to know how social setups respond to the effects exposed by drug abuse and how the government activities discourage and handle such cases. Drug and drug abuse is a thorny issue among city dwellers that requires concentrated attention, engagement of social and government setup to try and cub it effects and ultimately eradicating it.
A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. In pharmacology, a drug is a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease. Recreational drugs are chemical substances that affect the central nervous system. There are three main categories of drugs highly abused in various ways. They are:
Stimulant: Stimulants are drugs that stimulate the brain and central nervous system, speeding up communication between the two.
Depressants: Depressants slow down the activity of the brain and nervous system, slowing down the communication between the two.
Hallucinogens: Hallucinogens interfere with the brain and central nervous system in a way that results in radical distortions of a user’s perception of reality.
In urban setup, there are many conduit of accessing drugs not necessarily for medication purpose but rather for the dreaded purpose; abuse. Young people in these areas find themselves in an awkward position more so due to the raising unemployment and related social issues. Many are recruited to traffic drugs and many of them happen to be doing drugs and related substance abuse. There are various problems associated with drug abuse, ranging from rise in social crimes to health complexities.
The issue of drug abuse can be handled first by addressing the causes: unemployment, peer pressure, media influence, poor upbringing are among the causes of drug abuse. This means their effects can also be combated successfully. This essay looks at some of the effects of drug use on society, and suggests some solutions to the problem. The medical and psychological effects are very obvious. Addicts cannot function as normal members of society. The second effect is on crime. However, the menace of drugs can be fought. Education is the first battle. Children need to be told at home and in school about drugs. People need to be aware of the effects so that they can avoid this problem. A second approach is to increase police manpower and powers to stop dealers and to enforce the law. However the main target should be the user. Families and counsellors need to talk to children and people at risk.
In conclusion, although the problem of drugs may seem impossible to eliminate, there are concrete steps that can be taken to weaken the hold of drugs on society. The danger from drugs is too great to ignore. Using the combined efforts from our social setups and the government activities, we should be able respond to the effects exposed by drug abuse as well as discourage such cases.
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1.http://en.wikipedia.org
2. www.nacada.go.ke
3. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/drug