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A 3 page exploration of the many impacts of illicit drug use. This paper contends that these impacts are always more negative than positive and include not just the user but also those with whom he interacts and, in fact, society as a whole. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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not just on the individual using the drugs but on that individuals relationship with others in his life. Indeed, illicit drug use has an impact on society as a
whole. Just as illicit drugs come in all sorts of varieties, so too do the people that use them. The impacts of illicit drug use, however, are always
negative. Illicit drug use is not something that is limited to any one segment of society. Some users are the stereotypical image
of a crack head while others are white collar professionals. The impacts that illicit drugs take on these individuals lives, however, are always more negative than they are positive.
Regardless of the particular facet of illicit drug use that we explore, that use always goes hand in hand with a negative impact on not just the individual using the
drug but on those that interact with that individual as well. To support the contentions presented above, first consider methamphetamine use.
An estimated 1.5 to 2.5 percent of Americans have used this drug (Bender, 2007). This drug seems to target primarily younger users, however, more frequently than it does
older users. Some 2.8 percent of adults between eighteen and twenty-six years of age, for example, have used meth in the last year (Winslow, Voorhees and Pehl, 2007).
Likewise, meth use is more associated with certain lifestyles than others. One study reports, for example, that 5 percent of young
males in low-income neighborhoods and urban HIV-positive males reporting they have had sex with other men use meth (Cohen, Shuler, McAllister et. al, 2007). An even more disturbing finding
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