美国社会问题

1.Good morning, everyone.

Today my topic is drug abuse in America. Drug abuse in America has come to be regarded as one of the most challenging social problems.. It has serious effects on individuals physically and mentally, and the economic losses caused by drug abuse are great.

2.I will give four aspects for you to understand.

3.4. Now, actuality is The number of drugs sales volume is numerous. American life at least in the use of a drug with a total of 72 million, nearly a quarter of the total population in the United States Enormous consumption of drugs. Fashion of drug taking into each stratum, profession, and ethnicity. Drug abuse in each age class has, but in contrast, 18 to 25 years old this one age paragraph the ratio (比率) is higher

5.6.Angelina Jolie，Michael Phelps（菲尔普斯）, Arnold Schwarzenegger （施瓦辛格）they all take drugs.

7.why does Americans take drugs so crazy?

Geographical conditions. The United States and the world's one of the three largest drug production base in South America "Jin Xinyue" strip is only one of the sea, it has a wide range of people and goods with the rest of the world.

social reasons. The social causes of drug abuse refers to the social environment, the country's political, economic, legal, cultural and other factors on the influence of drug use behavior. For example ,The employment pressure. and The media of the bad publicity

last, personal reasons, we know, they like it.

8.but taking drugs is very harmful. First, toxic effect refers to excessive or administering a drug with pharmaceutical length of the body caused by a harmful role.毒性作用是指用药剂量过大或用药时间过长引起的对身体的一种有害作用Many drug addicts in the absence of economic resources, purchase drugs, and drug abuse cases, died of serious bodily or withdrawal reactions caused by various complications, or because the pain is just unbearable and committed suicide.许多吸毒者在没有经济来源购毒、吸毒的情况下，或死于严重的身体戒断反应引起的各种并发症，或由于痛苦难忍而自杀身亡。

Their behavior characteristics of the drug to focus on, even as drug and the loss of human nature.他们的行为特点围绕毒品转，甚至为吸毒而丧失人性。

second, the harm done to society of drug abuse is more serious.吸毒对社会的危害。

Drug addicts in self-destruction, but it also broke harm their families, so that families into financial bankruptcy, relatives discrete, and even destruction to the difficulty.

吸毒者在自我毁灭的同时，也破害自己的家庭，使家庭陷入经济破产、亲属离散、甚至家破人亡的困难境地。

besides this, the first drug affecting production, followed by the social wealth caused a huge loss and waste, while drug activities also led to deterioration of the environment, reducing the human living space.

吸毒首先影响生产，其次是造成社会财富的巨大损失和浪费, 同时毒品活动还造成环境恶化, 缩小了人类的生存空间。

and drug activities intensified inducd various illegal activities, and disturbed the social order, to bring great threat to social stability. 毒品活动加剧诱发了各种违法犯罪活动，扰乱了社会治安, 给社会安定带来巨大威胁。

9. Many people probably say “no drugs, no America.” Of course, this is an exaggeration, but it shows many Americans take drugs overly. say no to drugs, say yes to life, it’s not only a slogan, but also a true essence. The government should strengthen supervision. The media should promote positive information and we should control ourselves.

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