“You asked me if I’m in the money making business or the meth making business. Neither. I’m in the empire business,” this quote said by Bryan Cranston’s character Walter White on the hit action/drama television show “Breaking Bad” shows just how insane drugs can make a person become. Although, in Walter White’s case, he was not even taking drugs such as methamphetamines, he was producing it. That alone goes to show just how easily an illegal drug like crystal meth can affect an individual. Thesis: One of the most dangerous crimes being committed during the 21st century is the production and selling of methamphetamines. Methamphetamines have been proven to be a link to many other different crimes over the past decade and are becoming a major problem for many people in many different ways.
What exactly are methamphetamines? Methamphetamines, or meth for short, are a chemically addictive stimulant. It can be used many different ways, including snorting, injected, through a glass pipe, etc. Crystal meth (which is another nickname for it) is in the same classifications as cocaine as well as other street drugs and is created in illegal labs using chemically altered over-the-counter drugs. It is extremely dangerous for the person cooking the meth and for those living near or around the area where the meth is being cooked due to hazardous vapors. This drug has become increasingly popular in the current century. Though it is used by all ages, one of the more common uses for it is as a “club drug”. Meaning parties, raves, and celebrations of that nature.
The process of cooking and then selling crystal meth can be described as long, difficult, and dangerous. The cook undergoes a long and strenuous process of chemically altering various dif...
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Throughout “Chasing the Scream” many intriguing stories are told from individuals involved in the drug war, those on the outside of the drug war, and stories about those who got abused by the drug war. Addiction has many social causes that address drug use and the different effects that it has on different people. In our previous history we would see a tremendous amount of individuals able to work and live satisfying lives after consuming a drug. After the Harrison Act, drugs were abolished all at once, but it lead to human desperation so instead of improving our society, we are often the reason to the problem. We constantly look at addicts as the bad guys when other individuals are often the reasons and influences to someone’s decision in
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Connecting Sociology to situations that arise in everyday life has become easier and easier as i have progressed through Intro to Sociology this semester. When choosing what book I was going to analyze for my report, I chose Methland by Nick Reding. It details the quote “death and life of an american small town” through the perspective of those involved in the epidemic of the production of methamphetamine’s in the rural town of Oelwein Iowa. Despite the odds of a poor, small, and rural town in Middle America, Oelwein climbed to the top of the economic ladder with a multi million dollar drug franchise spread throughout the 1990’s. The midwest suffered greatly in the 1980’s with the downfall of the agricultural business in the United States. Soon drug dealers started flocking to these seemingly desolate towns in rural America to safely distribute their product. With the loss of jobs due to the farming downfall, many residents of Oelwein were seeking work and pay in anyway they could find. This is what started the official meth epidemic. Reding spent 4 years in his hometown of Oelwein Iowa to gain insight on the production and consumption of methamphetamine’s in this small town and also shines a spotlight on the problems of meth in this country today. But ironically, the comparison in this story of how the production and consumption of meth seemed to be driving this small town further into extinction, it also brought it back to life. Despite the destruction methamphetamines caused in Oelwein Iowa, the epidemic also brought the town back to life in a way that is irreversible. The highlight of the division of social class and who is able to climb up the social ladder is themed throughout the entire novel.
among gangs, etc. The outcome of being addicted to crystal meth for to long will lead to death. This
Blue meth? This is what the TV series Breaking Bad is shaped around. First, I will be discussing why I chose Breaking Bad to analyze. Secondly, I will discuss the topic of communicating verbally with Walter and Jesse. Thirdly, I will see how they managed conflict and power. Fourthly, I will look at Walter White's relationship with his friends. Fifthly, I will see how listing actively played a role in Breaking Bad. Next, I will dissect Walter and Jesse's relationship in the workplace. Lastly, I will see what this means for communication as a whole.
Crystal meth is a sub-category of amphetamine. Amphetamines are synthetic amines- which are similar to the body's neurotransmitter: norepinehrine and the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline). Amphetamines stimulate the reticular activating system. This activation is transmitted to all parts if the brain. This process causes the user to become aroused, alert and hypersensitive to stimuli- such as sun light.
Methamphetamine is an extremely dangerous drug that is included in the same drug class as other drugs like Cocaine. It’s most common street names include; ice, glass, crank, and meth. Meth starts off as a stimulant, but turns into a drug that will destroy your body. Meth addiction is one of the hardest addictions to treat, which is why many people result in dying from an overdose of meth. (What is Crystal Meth Addiction)
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Drugs are used to escape the real and move into the surreal world of one’s own imaginations, where the pain is gone and one believes one can be happy. People look on their life, their world, their own reality, and feel sickened by the uncaringly blunt vision. Those too weak to stand up to this hard life seek their escape. They believe this escape may be found in chemicals that can alter the mind, placing a delusional peace in the place of their own depression: “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly halucinant,” (52). They do this with alcohol, acid, crack, cocaine, heroine, opium, even marijuana for the commoner economy. These people would rather hide behind the haze than deal with real problems. “...A gramme is better than a damn.” (55).
Drug in the American Society is a book written by Eric Goode. This book, as the title indicates, is about drugs in the American Society. It is especially about the misuse of most drugs, licit or illicit, such us alcohol, marijuana and more. The author wrote this book to give an explanation of the use of different drugs. He wrote a first edition and decided to write this second edition due to critic and also as he mentioned in the preface “there are several reason for these changes. First, the reality of the drug scene has changed substantially in the past dozen or so years. Second much more information has been accumulated about drug use. And third, I’m not the same person I was in 1972.”(vii). The main idea of this book is to inform readers about drugs and their reality. In the book, Goode argued that the effect of a drug is dependent on the societal context in which it is taken. Thus, in one society a particular drug may be a depressant, and in another it may be a stimulant.
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Crystal methhas ben one of the fastest growing addiction known unlike alchol and some other drugs, Crystal meth does not normally have negative affects on a person firsst starting to using it. The exception to this would be the rapid heartbeat and perhaps anxiety. Crystal meth effects on the brain can be lasting. As the crystal meth leaves the body, the brain becomes capable of managing normal feelings. Depression and unstable moods are a challenge for recovering meth addicts, which is why addicts recovering from the substance have one of the highest relapse rates 52 % in the USA. Many people tryimg crystal meth for the first time become addicted to the substance. Most people inject the drug 9 out of 10 people that inject the drug automatically become addicted to meth. One of 33 teens in the USA have admitted to using meth. A 2005 national survey on drug use and health reports that 10.4 million people 12 and older have exsperimented with the drug at some point in
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