Hartmann’s reading in Part 2 of Chapter 7, “Drug Use and Abuse Worldwide” (2007, pp. 203 - 211) discusses several addictive substances and their use in several countries. Before we read it, we want to see what ideas we already have so that we can check them as we read the text. This is the purpose of the prediction making exercise C. on page 204, which we are doing here.
This question is not one of the four that Hartmann asks us to discuss, but I think it is also useful to think about in advance.
Response write on the following question:
- 5. Which recreational drugs of addiction do you think are most harmful? Which are least harmful?
Hartmann, P. (2007).
Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
I think a glue addiction is the most harmful of drug addiction because brain can be permanent destroy and unable to recover or regenerate like other drugs substance. In addition, it can gives a lot of problems like other drugs provide such as losing consciousness, aggression, harm themselves or others. By the way I don't think any drugs addiction have the least harmful.
ReplyDeleteI think another problem of glue addiction is that we easy to find it. So that people can easily buy it and use it, wheras it is one of the most harmful drugs. Ans I agree with you that the least harmful drugs are not exist.
DeleteBut I think there is one of drugs addiction is least harmful, it is hashish and many countries have changed it to normal drugs.
DeleteI agree that marijuana (hashish) is probably the least harmful, much less harmful than alcohol, so it seems sensible, and just, to legalize hashish as several US states have now done and as more countries are doing or considering.
DeleteIt's a new knowledge for me that some country allow people to take that addictive drug.
DeleteFour raises an interesting point, one with which Pear agrees: that there is no "least harmful" drug.
DeleteWhat do you think about this claim? Is it right?
(Although I've written this as a Yes/No question in order to directly check the idea, I'm pretty sure that a good answer requires at least a couple of sentences after the initial "Yes" or "No".)
I think, every drug in the world has the same harmful to use. it depends on how many do you take. drugs have individual effect type.
ReplyDeleteI think the drug which is the most harmful is the one that have effects to many people. For example, the drug that make people gone crazy and try to kill others because they think it is right or they are afraid that other will kill them if they do not do it first.
DeleteAnd I like the way Wan, rather than directly answering the question, instead suggests a criterion, or set of criteria, that we should use to decide on the answer.
DeleteIf we like Wan's suggestion here, what do we need to do next?
Do we like Wan's suggested criteria? Why or why not?
If we agree with Wan's suggestion, which drugs should be most strictly illegal? Which less so?
DeleteWhich specific drugs, their producers, sellers and users should we most strongly disapprove of? Are we, for example, right to think that alcohol is not as bad as yaa baa? Where do marijuana (cannabis) and tobacco fit in on the scale of harmful popular drugs?
What is needed next to settle this sort of question?
AMPHETAMINE，I believe, is the most dangerous addictive drug. They can make people to be unconscious and aggressive. So, they can harm other people without awareness, although they used to be a good person in society. Addict will be suffered from desire of taking more drugs. This drug can also destroy nerve system and can cause addict to death.
ReplyDeleteHartmann, as I note in the post, does not ask this question, so naturally she also does not answer it in the reading.
ReplyDeleteWhat does Hartmann consistently do in "Drug Use and Abuse Worldwide" that we also need to do here?
This relates to the question I asked about Wan's suggestion at October 7, 2013 at 6:47 PM above. And I think also to the blog post "Check it: History or Mystery". What do you think?
We should get to look at this in class today. But you might like to reply here in advance. And perhaps then apply that to answering the questions above.
DeleteFollowing Wan's and Ong's suggestion, we need facts to decide what drugs are the most and the least harmful. We might also distinguish between harm to individual users and harm to non-users and society generally.
ReplyDeleteOnce we have the facts to help us rank drugs from most to least harmful, how should we act?
Should we, for example, decide on legality and punishment according to how relatively harmful a drug actually is? Harmful to whom: to the users or to non-users and society?
Since criminalising some (heroin, marijuana), but not all (alcohol, tobacco), drugs is a popular "solution" to drug problems in many countries, these questions seem important to me - they have very real effects on the lives of citizens and of their children.
What do you think? What should the relationship between legality and drug harm be? Or do you agree with Hartmann (2007, p. 227) that all drugs, including heroin and yaa baa, should be legal? If some but not all should be illegal, how do we discriminate? How do we decide which should be illegal and which criminal so that we are not merely acting on irrational and immoral prejudice?
Reference
Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
And now I will return to my morning drug hit before rushing off to my Sunday morning class at AUA.
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