Answering Main Inquiry Question
Sub Question #1 – You might think that there are only a few illegal drugs like Marijuana. But no. Any drug can be illegal. Even medicine. For example, let’s say a person is prescribed a drug from a doctor. On the prescribed drug, there is a dose of how much of the drug you should take at once. Let’s say another person wants some of your prescribed drug. If you agree and give them some, it turns into an illegal drug because the second person is taking a prescribed drug when it was not prescribed to him/her. If the second person agrees and sells it to the second person, this makes the first person a drug dealer. So that means that any drug you can think of can be illegal or made illegal in a way.
Sub Question #2 – How is the price of a drug determined? Well for addicts, the price does not matter. Addicts will do anything they can to get the drug they want. This includes betraying people, lying to doctors to get a prescription and stealing money from anyone and anywhere to get enough money to buy a drug. But for prescribed drugs and medicine, it’s all about science and art. Many elements are considered when deciding the price. The most important aspect is the clinical value. Which means how does the drug benefit the user. Some questions related to the clinical value are, does the drug help the user live longer? Will people pay for the drug? Are there competitors? This means that good drugs are made mostly for the benefit for the user.
Sub Question #3 – What crucial parts of the body can be affected by different kinds of drugs? Well, positively, it could affect lots of places like the brain and your heart and it would help things like Leukemia. Take 8 year old Mykayla Comstock for example, she is taking cannabis every day to help her Leukemia. Negatively though, drugs such as cocaine, meth, marijuana and heroin can affect many parts of the body, but they mainly strongly affect the brain and the heart. Still despite these facts, 100,000 lbs of cocaine is consumed every year in the U.S. alone, 4000 lbs of meth in the U.S. alone and 700 tons of marijuana in the U.S. alone.
Sub Question #4: What ingredients are needed to make an affect more negative or positive? Well there are 2 types of ingredients, inactive and active. Inactive ingredients do not have any effect to a drug. An inactive ingredient could be food dye. An active ingredient is the opposite. It does have an effect on the drug. An active ingredient could be alcohol. So the main thing I will prioritize on is active drugs. For positive and negative drugs, there are 4 different types of drugs. Stimulants, Hallucinogens, Depressants and Opiates. Stimulants speed up your body. Depressants do the opposite. Opiates are powerful painkillers and Hallucinogens affect your thoughts and emotions in unpredictable ways.
Sub Question #5: What are some drugs that are beneficial to the body and how does the drug help the body? Some “good” drugs that I personally have to use a lot are creams, antibiotics, pain relievers, etc. Pain relievers obviously help pain. Creams such as the ones I take, relieve my itchiness and antibiotics kill bacteria.
Sub Question #6: What are some kinds of drugs that are dangerous to take and how does the drug impact the body? Well like I listed before, some kinds of “bad” drugs are marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin. But their is also ecstasy, opioids, and many more I cannot list. But I got the most information on marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin so I will list these drugs affects. Marijuana is a depressant which mean that it slows down the body. Marijuana can also have many other effects such as red eyes, common nosebleeds, and can speed up your heart rate from 20 bpm to nearly 50 bpm! That’s insane! It can also be very dangerous because if your house was on fire or you were in an emergency, if you were using marijuana lately, you would be in grave danger because you would be in the emergency without being frightened or panicked by the emergency which means, you could easily die in the emergency because you would most likely be making no attempt to get out of the emergency. This is because marijuana damages your memory cells in your brain which makes you forget your past experiences. This is why marijuana is so dangerous. Heroin is an opiate which can slow your reaction time down but it also kills pain. But back to the fact that heroin can slow your reaction time down. If you were driving on heroin (which no one should do), if there was a stop sign in front of you, at the last second you would suddenly stop and realize the stop sign was there because heroin makes you reaction time slower. Meth and cocaine are stimulants which means that they speed up you body. Cocaine can be like anabolic steroids. It can give you a big boost of strength and a lot of self esteem. However, the big boost of strength and self esteem come at a price. Which is heart failure. When you use this big boost of strength, you put yourself in risk of a heart failure. And the self esteem sort of pushes you to go over the limit which combined with the risk of the heart failure is very dangerous. Meth is a stimulants on the other hand also increases your heart rate but you get no benefit whatsoever. It’s like if you run for 10 minutes, you will feel like you have ran for 30-40 minutes. This can cause overheating and yet another risk of heart failure.
Main Inquiry Question: How do drugs affect the human body in negative and positive ways?
First of all, what is a drug? A drug is a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. Anything can be a drug from creams to allergy medicine to things as bad as Marijuana.
Drugs come in many different shapes in sizes and have many different prices. But how is the price of a drug determined? Well for addicts, the price does not matter. Addicts will do anything they can to get the drug they want. This includes betraying people, lying to doctors to get a prescription and stealing money from anyone and anywhere to get enough money to buy a drug. But for prescribed drugs and medicine, it’s all about science and art. Many elements are considered when deciding the price. The most important aspect is the clinical value. Which means how does the drug benefit the user. Some questions related to the clinical value are, does the drug help the user live longer? Will people pay for the drug? Are there competitors? This means that good drugs are made mostly for the benefit for the user.
Drugs have many ingredients, but there are only 2 types of ingredients, inactive and active. Inactive ingredients do not have any effect to a drug. An inactive ingredient could be food dye. An active ingredient is the opposite. It does have an effect on the drug. An active ingredient could be alcohol. Mostly, an active ingredient in a drug like nicotine does something to the user that’s bad or good depending on what drug your using. Nicotine causes users to get addicted to something which is normally used in bad drugs. Also, mostly inactive ingredients are used to do stuff like change the taste of the drug and change the color of the drug.
There is a large variety of drugs. Some are “bad”, some are “good”. But in general a drug is a drug. So, what are some drugs that are beneficial to the body and how does the drug help the body? Some “good” drugs that I personally have to use a lot are creams and antibiotics. Creams such as the ones I take, relieve my itchiness and antibiotics kill bacteria.
“Bad” drugs. There are a lot of bad drugs that can also be good. Such as Marijuana. There is the illegal kind and the legal kind which is used for medicine. So, what are some kinds of drugs that are dangerous to take and how does the drug impact the body? Well like I listed before, some kinds of “bad” drugs are marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin. But their is also ecstasy, opioids, and many more I cannot list. But I got the most information on marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin so I will list these drugs affects. Marijuana is a hallucinogen which mean that it gives the user an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present which means they see something not there. Marijuana can also have many other effects such as red eyes, common nosebleeds, and can speed up your heart rate from 20 bpm to nearly 50 bpm! That’s insane! It can also be very dangerous because if your house was on fire or you were in an emergency, if you were using marijuana lately, you would be in grave danger because you would be in the emergency without being frightened or panicked by the emergency which means, you could easily die in the emergency because you would most likely be making no attempt to get out of the emergency. This is because marijuana damages your memory cells in your brain which makes you forget your past experiences. This is why marijuana is so dangerous. Heroin is an opiate which can slow your reaction time down. For example, if you were driving on heroin (which no one should do), if there was a stop sign in front of you, at the last second you would suddenly stop and realize the stop sign was there because heroin makes you reaction time slower. Meth and cocaine are stimulants which means that they speed up you body. Cocaine can be like anabolic steroids. It can give you a big boost of strength and a lot of self esteem. However, the big boost of strength and self esteem come at a price. Which is heart failure. When you use this big boost of strength, you put yourself in risk of a heart failure. And the self esteem sort of pushes you to go over the limit which combined with the risk of the heart failure is very dangerous. Meth is a stimulants on the other hand also increases your heart rate but you get no benefit whatsoever. It’s like if you run for 10 minutes, you will feel like you have ran for 30-40 minutes. This can cause overheating and yet another risk of heart failure.
Like I said before, there are a large variety of drugs. Many of which are known for being good for you and many of which are known for being bad for you. You might think that there are only a few illegal/”bad” drugs like Marijuana. But no. Any drug can be illegal. Even medicine. For example, let’s say a person is prescribed a drug from a doctor. Let’s say another person wants some of your prescribed drug. If you agree and give them some, it turns into an illegal drug because the second person is taking a prescribed drug when it was not prescribed to him/her. If the second person agrees and sells it to the second person, this makes the first person a drug dealer. So that means that any drug you can think of can be illegal or made illegal in a way.
So drugs can both negatively and positively affect crucial parts of the human body. So what crucial parts of the body can be affected by different kinds of drugs? Well, positively, it could affect lots of places like the brain and your heart and it would help things like Leukemia. Take 8 year old Mykayla Comstock for example, she is taking cannabis every day to help her Leukemia. Negatively though, drugs such as cocaine, meth, marijuana and heroin can affect many parts of the body, but they mainly strongly affect the brain and the heart. Still despite these facts, 100,000 lbs of cocaine is consumed every year in the U.S. alone, 4000 lbs of meth in the U.S. alone and 700 tons of marijuana in the U.S. alone. That’s crazy!!!
To sum it all up, drug affect the human body many many different ways not only positively but also negatively. I hope you learned more than I did about drugs. Thank you for your time.
