Drug abuse is a global phenomenon. ... Drug abuse is all over different places in the world. A greater amount of young people have started to abuse drugs over the last few decades. ... Drugs of abuse fall into three categories: depressants like heroin, stimulants like cocaine, and crack, and hallucinogens like marijuana, Ecstasy, and LSD. ... Now imagine all of these horrible effects of drug abuse working on people at the wheel. ...

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This paper will discuss the relationship between two commonly abused recreational drugs and schizophrenia. Cocaine and marijuana are two of the most commonly used drugs in the country, and have very different effects on brain function. ... By taking cocaine, a schizophrenic would compound their symptoms, however, cocaine abuse seems to be more common with people who suffer from schizophrenia, possibly because its effects are much more greatly felt. ... Although both of these drugs are psychoactive, only cocaine seems to have any relationship with schizophrenia. ... "Consequently, the stu...

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Eventually companies will be licensed to sell marijuana cigarettes or more commonly know as "joints" and the immense revenue made from taxation of marijuana and the saved budget once spent on the prohibition of Marijuana could be spent on anti drug programs targeting much more dangerous drugs like cocaine and morphine. ... Well on a dictionary outlook it means " A habit-forming substance whose use may lead to the abuse of drugs that are more addictive or more dangerous"; or more simply put a substance that opens the doors to more harmful drugs. ... Just because over the years it has become...

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