Satire On Drugs

Drugs within our communities pose a severe threat to our society as a whole. The United States if full of people who are unsatisfied with their lives, jobs, finances, and relationships; furthermore, they turn to drugs. A lot of people, “coat their problems with powder’, because they don’t know how to cope with the issues and stress that life throws at them. They consider drugs to be a “victimless crime”, and tend to think that they are not hurting anyone by doing them. They believe that it should be there choice in what they do with their body, and with their life. As true as this may be, sometimes people need to be protected from themselves and their irrational, uneducated decisions. People frequently become victims to their own bad decisions,
Every 17 seconds in the United States, a teenager experiments with an illicit drug for the first time(cite). With this being said, prescription drugs are not just a threat in themselves, they also tend to pave the pathway for the use of illicit street drugs(cite).
FDA approved drugs are costing people their lives more so than illicit street drugs. When people hear the word “drugs” normally the illegal drugs are the ones that come to mind. Drug free organizations travel around the world every day, trying to prevent adults and teenagers from using them, and while that is important to do, the bigger problem is lying in our own
To do this, instead of only one medical doctor writing a prescription, the government should make the policy where the patient has to be seen and diagnosed by two, non-biased medical doctors. The government should also, make a requirement in medical school for longer more intensive training on the effects of medications and the signs of drug abuse. If the patient is in fact diagnosed by two doctors, then the patient every appointment after to get a refill of medication, should have to get there blood taken to ensure they are actually taking them, rather then selling