which at times he finds the strength to get clean only to relapse. This leads to him losing his daughter and the woman he loves.
Smack give us a very mixed ending. Gemma’s ability to overcome her addiction is inspiring and uplifting while Tar shows us the alternative unhappy ending. Mimicking reality and the two directions that result after prolonged drug abuse. The novel also touches on the theme of letting go and living. But shows in its events that living a certain life isn’t without consequence. This shows while there is value in experience, experience can lead to loss of innocence. Tar says, “Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time
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Frank Daniels released a novel Futureproof. Furtureproof is a semi biographical novel about a troubled teen that finds himself addicted to Heroin. Heroin is one of the most widely written about drugs in novels. The reason for this is because of its highly addictive qualities and the impact of the drug. Heroin unlike drugs like marijuana is known as one of the worst drugs to get clean from and often leads to overdose. Within the time frame of the novels I have written about many celebrities have met an ill fate due to heroin and so it’s a common drug on the mind of teens and adults during this time. Thus there was a bigger call to educate and help teens resist the drug. Individuals such as Layne Staley, Andrew Wood, and Dwayne Goettel are only a few musicians who died in this time periods from heroin …show more content…
He’s a normal teenager but has a bad home life and abusive father figure. His escape is art and The Rocky Horror picture show. His quest for experience and escape leads him to an addiction and abandonment of his love for art. Futureproof is different than the other novels I have discussed in it is told entirely from a male perspective instead of female or switching between male and female. It’s gritty and original but often criticized and predictable. While the predictability can be seen as simply natural consequences of drug use the book failed to make a lasting impact, compared to the other novels discussed.
Another reason Futureproof had less of an audience is the amount of cautionary tale which came out around the time. Among them was Crank and Glass by Ellen Hopkins. These had a bigger appeal because of its unique use of language and storytelling. This lead to a bigger audience and a decrease in popularity of the older styles of popular young adult fiction. These were also easier and faster to read than traditional novels so they appealed a different group of readers with smaller attention
In the book High Price, highly credible author and neuroscientist, Dr. Carl Hart explains the misconceptions that everyone normally has about drugs and their users. He uses his own life experiences coming from a troubled neighborhood in Florida. The book consists of Hart’s life growing up with domestic violence in his household and the chance he had to come out and excel academically. He talks about the war on drugs and how within this war on drugs we were actually fighting the war with the wrong thing.
...lliams wrote in The Cocaine Kids was accurate. Instead of just writing more facts and statistics about these teenagers and cocaine, he told a story. He wrote something that more individuals can read and relate too. I believe the Williams successfully brings value and importance to these drug dealers lives. Williams shows drug dealing in the inner city in a very humane way. Their lives are closed to almost all outsiders because of the fact they are involved with illegal drugs. But after reading this book it showed me that even though they live a very difficult and dangerous way of life, they are not as different to us outsiders then we think. They too, have to continuously make tough and valuable decision to live and be successful within society. These dealers are just kids who had little time to be young and are trying to survive in a violent and corrupt world.
After hearing a brief description of the story you might think that there aren’t many good things about they story. However, this is false, there are many good things in this book that makes it a good read. First being that it is a very intriguing book. This is good for teenage readers because often times they don’t willingly want to read, and this story will force the teenage or any reader to continue the book and continue reading the series. Secondly, this is a “good” book because it has a good balance of violence. This is a good thing because it provides readers with an exciting read. We hear and even see violence in our everyday life and I believe that it is something teenagers should be exposed to. This book gives children an insig...
Chasing Heroin did a great job of diving into the epidemic and brought to light how the problem began, the effects its had on our nation, and the programs being put in place to address the issue. It presents opioid addiction
Once these individuals in rehab serve there sentence the majority of them, won’t look straight to the next opportunity to get high, but the next opportunity for a better future after being encouraged in rehab to accomplish something in life, compared to someone’s attitude coming out of prison. One story involved a man named Richard with his wife Marcia. She was an addict who was often jailed for it, but Anthony believed like many others that “addiction can be overcome with proper help. He believed that the solution was to get her into a mental hospital [and] get her whatever she needs – Xanax, morphine, to get her chemical imbalance right. Show her some respect. (114)” Give her some working skills, so once she gets out she is capable of being successful but instead she kept getting “kicked down the steps” by the criminal justice system. The jailing and torture of addicts is routine to people serving cases for drug related offenses, who are often not built to endure prison, let alone jail. “The Justice Department estimates that 216,000 people are raped in these prisons every year. (This is the number of rapes, not the number of rapes – that is much higher.) (109)” This is ultimately shows the simple fact that many people are not built to endure
We are introduced to the story of Matt Schoonover, a young man who had recently obtained his masters degree from Yale. He had grown up “attending a Christian private school, and a prominent church” (2). Matt had begun abusing pills, though he was originally prescribed them by a doctor. Even after undergoing detoxification and then rehab, Matt could not curb his addiction. “Unable to afford street Oxycontin, Matt switched to black tar heroin, brought in from Mexico” (3). We are told how this is unfortunately quite common. People who are prescribed pills often end up abusing them; and once they can no longer afford the high prices of OxyContin they switch to black tar heroin. This transition is often what leads to overdoses, as black tar heroin is extremely deadly and overdoses like Matt’s are common. This is just one story out of tens of thousands of similar stories that all have the same ending. The opiate crisis is a problem that few recognize because it crept up on a majority of Americans. Young people throughout the nation were not using drugs in public, but privately in their own
...hanged dramatically since the dawn of the 1960s, granting a sort of semi-legitimacy to drug-influenced art that grows stronger and less self-conscious every year. This pervasiveness of drug imagery in our culture today is no accident-it represents the outgrowth of these artists' introduction of drugs into the popular consciousness. The lingering effects of their efforts to publicize and poetize their altered states of mind can be readily seen in the mainstream culture of America today, which possesses both an awareness of and begrudging respect for the drug experience.
It is eight a.m. and she has been up for hours at this point. The diarrhea is uncontrollable and her stomach is killing her. She needs to vomit again. Her bed is covered in sweat. Her body feels hot, but she is freezing cold. Her hands are shaking. Her legs are restless and her entire body aches as if she had been run over by a semi. She feels weak, both physically and mentally. Tears stream down her face because she hates herself. Addiction is the reason her mother has custody of her daughter, Abby. Most of her family and friends disown her. This drug has taken over her life. At this point, she is debating if everyone, including herself, would benefit from her suicide. Jenny was dope sick, suffering
Some people argue that the drug users aren’t the heroin victims. One writer notes, 'The parents of the user who steals from them, abuses them, physically, emotionally and mentally, the siblings who suffer the loss of care and love but who also get abused and used by the user, the kids of the user who learn that the parent's desire for smack is greater than the desire to be a parent,' are the real heroin victims (Fitzgerald, 2000). This problem therefore effects not only the user but the society living around them as well.
The Wolf Of Wall Street shows a dramatized (maybe not) reality of Wall Street businessmen popping narcotics as if they are daily vitamins. Award winning shows like Breaking Bad are entirely based around drugs and the abundance of benefits they bring you. In fact, most popular movies and TV show plots have drugs involved or contain heavy references to drug use. Humans are naturally adrenaline junkies, which is why it’s no surprise that the most popular movies and TV shows contain drug use and/or references to drugs. Most people might think the media portrayal of drugs is far fetched, but I beg to
A common recreational drug that is illegally dealt is Heroin. To many this drug is known by a few slang/street names, some being; smack, brown stone and junk (Tracy, 2012). Heroin is a highly addictive opiate that caused many different issues regarding physical and mental health. It can be consumed in 3 different ways: snorting, injecting and smoking. The original purpose of heroin is far different then the purpose that it is used for today in society. In 1874, heroin was first produced from morphine and 24 years later began its journey in the field of medicine to help morphine addicted patients (Scott, 1998). After use of the medicine it became present that the drug was just as addictive as morphine and was in turn creating patients to become addicted to the new drug. In 1902, doctors ceased the use of heroin in the medical field and a few years following, 8 years later, the first case of a heroin addict was admitted to a hospital for treatment (Scott, 1998). The drug is no longer used for a medical purposes but is still present in the legal drug selling market. Many countries have stiff penalties if caught in possession of or are selling heroin, because this drug is listed as a Class A drug (“Opium, Morphine, Heroin”, n.d.).
...e present and, as such, shapes the future. How free is the individual, if we concede to behavioural determinism? And, if choices on the high-street can be predicted according to, for example, class, gender, education, and origin, can they really qualify as free choices? The characters are perhaps shown as being "unfree," as they are being forced to make a choice"a job," a "career," a "big television"; to act otherwise is to choose death. Heroin represents this misnomerit is the unmade choice, the solidification of a philosophical abstraction. Significantly, heroin never actually kills any of the charactersonly its accompanying consequences.
... more in his life but in doing so, changes and becomes a worse person for it.
Throughout America's music history, the use and abuse of illegal drugs has been widespread, and some great musicians' lives have been utterly devistated and ruined by drugs. Often times it seems as though, in studying their histories, many musicians are falsely led to believe that if they use certain drugs, their playing will improve, or become more creative. Many great musician's lives have been tragicly cut short because of their drug use, and God only knows where some of them would be today had they not fallen into the trap of believing a chemical substance can improve their musicianship. The tragic thing is that by the time they realize that the drugs are only hurting their performance, the addiction has already taken control of their lives and their music.
The characters are followed exploring and discovering the world they live in, only to find the ugly side of what they thought was the perfect world. The characters are made to think and act in the same way the audience and readers are feeling to create a feeling of being inside the novel or film. An example of this was Joe from Johnson's Looper when he failed to 'take out' his future self. Joe knew that if his future self lived at the same time as his currrent self, it would create a rip in the fabric of time. Despite the pressure from his boss, Joe didnt turn himself in as he wanted to fix the situation himself, “i'm gonna fix this! I'm gonna find him, and I'm gonna kill him”. In this case the gang leader of Joe's gang was controlling him and was forcing him to give himself up and make things easy by killing his current self. Joe refused and chose to take matters into his own hands and fix the problem himself. This contrasts from John, who is a 'savage' in the novel; Brave New World. John lives in a savage village where they act as we do today doing everyday normal things. He is introduced into the 'civilised' community and is instantly disgusted by the way their society works. John fears for the state of humanity because they are no longer having children naturally and are encouraged to have sex with numerous partners