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Meth Addiction in Tennessee

In the entire United States of America, drug addiction among various populations is very common. Many people depend on these drugs for various purposes such as stimulation of the body mechanisms and for treatment of some disease. However, in most of the cases, drug abuse results leading to addiction. The commonly abused drugs include bhang, cocaine, heroin, and meth among others. The rate of abuse varies from state to state. For this reason, the rate at which one substance is abuse in one state differs and the population. This paper, therefore, analyses Methamphetamine (meth) abuse and the resultant addition including the effect on the people of the state of Tennessee.

Meth is considered by the user to be boosting their energy. People especially the youth in the teen up to the age beyond 35 years continue to abuse this drug in Tennessee. The reason behind this massive abuse of this drug is due to the many numbers of the illegal companies producing this drug in their laboratories (Line, 2014). In addition, since this is a synthetic drug, it is very powerful and strong in terms of health hazards than any other drug. Just from the first-time use, a person gets addicted to the drug and cannot, there henceforth, do without it. This is the situation which makes controlling its penetrations and effects among the youth to become difficult.

In addition, the harmful and infectious nature of the drug makes it hard to be controlled. The walls of the rooms where it is abused, the utensils and other commodities for daily use thus become a potential store for the drug. When a person sniffs it's from the wall or the cloth he or she is wearing, then he or she might end up getting addicted to the drug. The addicted lots thus live in a group isolated from the rest since, meeting the people abusing it means, with no good protection, interaction with the fumes of the drug hence instant addiction.

Meth usage associated with many social problems. The drug is very dangerous to the body as it causes the body to overreact in the name of boosting the energy which in turns overpowers the strengths of the person. Therefore, the person uses the drug and spends much of his or her time in recovering from the effects of this drug. They also involve in the antisocial behaviors such as stealing and deteriorate in the mental and psychological health (Line, 2014).

In this pool, once a person has tasted this drug, it is thus very hard to drop it. This is because the addiction starts almost on the first day of use and there is no specific time when the person who has started using this will drop it. The drug results in generally poor health in the community since even the young in the society are reported to be addicted to this drug. This makes the exact identification of the specific population to deal with hard.

The population affected gets involved in their early years. This because they need energy do their daily activities which is like they are deceived of the drug by the producers (Windsor, 2015). The problem arises where they are unable to correctly distinguish what is harmful to the functionalities of the body and what is useful in terms of the resultant effect. The gap is the lack of proper problem-solving skills on the best way to follow. For this reason, the step toward restoring the society is to work in developing critical thinking and liberal minds for this generation for this drug and look for an alternative mechanism through education. The laboratories producing this drug should also be brought to the consequences of the law to stop destroying the community. Thus, the hope of the community rests on the strength of education in eliminating the fixed and locked minds on this drug (Line, 2014).

Reference

Windsor, R. A. (2015). Evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention programs: improving population health through evidence-based practice. Oxford University Press, USA.

Line, B. (2014). MTF: College students’ daily use of marijuana at a 30-year high. Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, 2.