Arkansas and Drugs

Drugs are popular throughout the world and would really affect peoples lifes by killing them. Drugs are very dangerous that it could make you have lung cancer and would really destroy your life.

By kiomilla.ling from Pocahontas Junior High in Arkansas

What are drugs? Drugs are a substance that changes a person's mental or physical state. They can affect how your brain works, how you feel and behave. People take drugs for different reasons and different ways. Some others describe drugs as essentially an item that is not food that is called drugs by the FDA.

There’s two most destructive drugs in use today at school and have been perfectly legal. Alcohol and tobacco. The uneasy peace of culture that has been made with alcohol may point to a way drugs like heroin and cocaine might someday be used in the post-war-on-drugs era. Drugs are whatever the government says they are—A drug is a substance that transforms our experience of the world.

“One good way to understand a complex system is to disturb it and then see what happens.”

  • Michael Pollan

Drugs change how people feel and their chemistry—changes the body even. It’s not very clear that food is food and drugs are drugs. Drugs who make you feel aware and feel connected where the point is to be less alive. The point is that drugs change how you feel on the inside so that you don’t have to deal with what’s happening on the outside. But the real problem is that it could be effective to your lungs and could really destroy them and you could as well have lung cancer.

Most people take drugs to help them deal with stuff in their lives and few others take drugs for fun. What people don't know is that it could really harm them as well as their friends and family. Drugs are so addictive that 95% of teens take them and the amount of percent of children that take it too are 44%.

“You might be the only person that they could talk to and would be the person who would take them out of the dark with some motivational words about drugs.”

  • Lesli godwin

Drugs are very addictive and very very harmful–Most teens these days are very addicted to drugs and could really destroy their life and especially take their future away from them. More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.

Facts : 11.7% of people 12 and over use illegal drugs and 58.8% of people use drugs.

It's bad for the heart and you won't be able to breathe–it might as well make you die. Alas, in order to stop doing drugs is to exercise, clean your house, join any sport, and stop hanging out with friends who do drugs because they're gonna smoke in front of you and you won't resist the smell of smoke, and they will also force you to do drugs with them. In order to stop hanging out with friends who smoke, hang out with some new people who don't smoke.

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Ms. Lange's 9th and 10th graders

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