Drugs have been around for centuries. As time went on, the types of drugs have increased. There are many uses of drugs ranging from medicinal to recreational purposes. They’ve become so popular in the media; there isn’t a week that goes by without a magazine headline about a celebrity using drugs. We hear about it so often in the news with marijuana and the on-going decades’ long debate on whether or not it should be legalized. Although we hear about drugs often in them media, there isn’t much remark on what these substances do to us. High schools nowadays have a mandatory one semester of health to be taken. We are taught that they are illegal, dangerous to use, and the bottom line? We shouldn’t use them.
Thoughts often tend to surround the detrimental aspects of drug culture. People think of it as a chemical substance that harms our body and will consequentially lead to their deaths. What they don’t think about is what drugs are. As it was aforementioned, we are taught that they shouldn’t be used. The education system today does not revolve on keeping people informed about drugs. Not many people know exactly what it is in these substances they shouldn’t be using. Young people, namely teenagers, are more susceptible to the consequential aspects of drugs because they simply view it as a fun way to escape from their lives.
Thanks for your check in. I see kind of a narrowing down in terms of you seem to want to think more specifically about the ingredients of drugs and people’s awareness about what it is they put in their body. I don’t think that you’ve gotten to a point where I can really see what your claim is or what it might turn out to be.
Some cautions:
1- phrases like “now a days” should be cut. They are imprecise and often indicative of a desire to make unfounded conclusions based on generalizations.
2-you start referring to drugs very broadly, but the issue of not knowing the ingredients in drugs seems to be an issue with unregulated and illegally used drugs. If I’m correct in that inference, you need to be clear that you’re narrowing your conversation to these types of drugs.
3- Similar to number 1, be careful about appealing to a general “we.” If you want to say that “we” see a headline on celebrity overdose every week, give me some examples of the most recent slew of celebrity deaths. “We” is nebulous, and if you don’t know your reader, you run the risk of losing them when you include them in a group they don’t identify with. Also you don’t want to use an appeal to “we” as a way to authorize your claim. The appeal to the common knowledge is a logical fallacy.