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The final product

After all my work, I am ready to present and it was stressful. I was done but man, it was not easy. I kept stressing out and kept thinking to myself, “Will I forget some words? Will the audience laugh at my joke?” These questions kept popping into my head and the more it did the more stressful I got. This was getting on my nerves so much. But anyway my presentation and script were pretty good and I had actually memorized my whole script. This was my script by the way:

 

“Hi my name is Raymond and I will be doing drugs… for capstone of course.  Now, I know you’re thinking ,”Why did this kid do drugs for him capstone”. Well I choose drugs because I have a condition called eczema which is where I sprout a lot of rashes everywhere on my body. Now, don’t go assuming my parents did this to me because that is not true. To cure this I take medicine. Which is a prescription drug and I wanted to learn more about it and even more.

Before we even start, I think you should  what is a drug? A drug is any substance or chemical that alters the way that your body works. 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. This 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. Like 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. These are all “good drugs”.

 

“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. But still, medical marijuana is on legal in  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 illegal opiate which can slow your reaction time down. But it also kills pain in users. But back to the fact that it slows 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.

 

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 heroin. 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. Using these drugs long term can lead to a largely increased chance of a serious heart failure. 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.”

 

Anyway, my presentation was also pretty good. All my transitions were maybe too complicated by they looked good. All my practice presentations went well. Most of the audience laughed at my joke and I didn’t mess up at all. So now we wait and see how the final presentation will go. Hopefully everything will go as planned.