Narcotics
When someone says the word narcotic, what do you think of? Do you think of the shady, run down parts of a big city, where drug peddlers play hide and seek with today's youngsters? Perhaps you think of a rich businessman, who spends his coffee break in the company bathroom snorting cocaine to keep up with works' stresses and long hours. The word narcotic refers to many different drugs, the way they are administered, and whether their use is for good or bad. In the articles I read for this reaction paper, I learned about both sides of the narcotic spectrum. First, I read about the use of morphine with regard to pain patients, and the controversy that surrounds it. Second, I read about the deadly effects snorting heroin has had on a rich suburban area in Texas. In this essay, I will voice my reactions to both articles read, and in addition, I will critique both pieces of work. Article 12 -"The Case For Morphine", by Christine Gorman, was a terrifically researched piece on the pain killer, morphine. It seems the author chose an area of substance abuse that is rather gray, and that asks the question of "if a drug that is under most situations cons
no indication of any qualifications of the author and besides that, I didn't feel like the author had much sympathy for the topic he was writing about. More information and research was definately needed to convince me that this article was good and solid. Two things that I did see in this piece were 1) stereotyping (where it is assumed that rich, white kids have nothing better to do or spend their money on than drugs) and 2) incorrect assumption of cause/effect relationship ("Dad works. Mom works. Long hours...nobody eats dinner together any more. A lot of the parent said that they saw no sign of drugs. You don't want to be cruel, but sometimes you wont how hard they looked"). I don't feel that it is correct to say that because a lot of the parents work in this town, they don't spend a lot of time with their kids; therefore, the lack of parental guidance is the cause of the kids drug use. Article 28-"Teens fear needles, so they snort heroin", by Jesse Katz, was another interesting article that I read. While I felt that the author's motivation for writing this essay was (and should have been) because of the increasingly high usage rate of heroin amongst teens in a
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Approximate Word count = 797
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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