Drugs

After the lecture, I was quite amazed to find that drugs didn't really start on the streets but in the hands of the educated. A certain fact is that they are definitely on the streets now!! When talking about drugs being illigal in the lecture and whether they should be legalised was quite interesting because we have to ask, would there be so many addicts if drugs were legal and wouldn't drugs be used more responsibly? If drugs were legal there probably wouldn't be as much crime and you wouldn't have to visit the shady people who deal the drugs behind closed doors.

But... they are not legal and long term use really does have bad side effects. I think you can usually tell if a person is a drug addict, especially heroin addicts. You only have to go into your local town and i'm sure you could pick them out a mile off!

Here is a link from the BBC website about drug abuse:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health/drugs_use.shtml

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