112th Precinct Community Council

our winning essays

Mar 19, 2006

Our Winning Anti-Drug Essays
The World of Drugs By Karina Peraffan
Imagine waking up suffocating, blurriness, not being able to think. Something that made you feel so good in the beginning, now makes you feel depressed and lonely. Welcome to the world of drugs. Drugs not only hurt you, but the people you love also get hurt. When you start, you Just can?’t stop. Think before you act, think of all your life not that one second. Day by Day, puff by puff, inside yourself your slowly dying. Drugs are like roads, you can see the beginning but not the end. Drugs do not only affect you, but it also affects anybody you love. If you think you have the hardest life in the world, think again. Have you ever thought how much your hurting your family and friends? If you keep on doing drugs, all of your opportunities will fade away, you will lose them all. When you get too much into drugs, nobody will want you around anymore. They will keep you on the side. They don?’t care anymore, because they know you have just ruined your life with just one drug. When you have a drug, you like it , and it feels good; but when it starts joining the rest of your body, you feel pain and depression, you feel like you don?’t have the ability to move any part of your body. Most of the people that get into drugs, get in it because they have many life problems. But drugs aren?’t the solution. It isn?’t the solution because having drugs will lead you to even more problems. It will lead you to more problems because there comes a time when your tired of it, and you want to stop, but you can?’t stop. Its not easy. Another problem that drugs give you is your life. You are risking your life because you could die of an overdose. There are many different drugs like, cocaine, marijuana, crack, heroine, extasy and much more. Marijuana comes from a plant, Crack is done from different chemicals, Heroine is also comes from mixed and bad chemicals, and Extasy is also from many different kinds of chemicals. When a friend offers your drugs, that friend isn?’t a real friend. He/she isn?’t a good friend because they are convincing you to ruin your life, and have more problems. Also that friend isn?’t a good friend because, if he/she is doing drugs that friend should keep it to themselves, and not convince other people to suffer what he/she is going through. When a friend offers you drugs, it will most likely sound lik this: ?“Oh you know I tried this thing yesterday,, and it makes you cool, here try one!?” The friend won?’t tell you what it is, so you won?’t say ?“no?” right away, but when you see it, you might not recognize it and then try it. Sometimes drugs are disguised or hidden. Sometimes drugs can be disguised in a candy rapper or in a drink. IT could be hidden in your shoes or in your clothes or maybe even in a bag or purse. Every drug is deadly in a different way. Don?’t get caught on the addicting chain. Watch Out!

ANTI-DRUGS BY Tarang Jain
Say no to drugs. ?“anti drugs?” is a widely used term all over the world. Drugs is a universal problem. It is more used in the age group of 11-30 years old. When it comes to drugs, they are everywhere. They are in schools, universities, campuses, movie theaters and even at home. Our generation is struggling more than ever deciding how to say no. It is illegal to buy or sell certain drugs such as Cocaine, Marijuana, Crack, Afeem, etc. It is highly addictive. Once a person starts taking these drugs, his/her body demands more and more. The business of dealing with drugs have grown over the years. Even though everyone knows that it is illegal and harmful, they still indulge into it. It is a very profitable business. People do not realize human values, but only to earn money. These drug dealers do not realize that they are playing with lives of the people, but sometimes their own families become the victims of this. The anti-drug campaign, which teenagers are receiving from parents, school and media do have an effect on the minds of the people. The parents explain to the Children that taking drugs is very harmful. Gradually it makes your mind inactive. The media is also very effective, and kids rely on it. IT is important that is sends the right message. This is an outside, unknown source that kids pay attention to. Kid?’s movies should also focus on the well being of children. It should show the negative effects of taking drugs. This will make people more aware of the bad effects of having drugs. Drugs has taken a lot of lives and ruined many families. I wish that all the nations take a pledge to be drug free nations. They should make their laws stricter against drug dealers so that the others could learn a lesson from it. Drugs can come in form of powder, liquid or pills. People cam nix drugs with eating or drinking food items. Drugs basically mean medicine. So it can cure your disease and be good or be very harmful. The bad ones are illegal. Some drugs are also bad to smell. So if someone offers you a drug don?’t even smell it because it?’s as gad as eating it. You could put a type of drug in an injection or any needle and stick it inside your body so the drugs can go in your blood. Some people do it and their skin becomes red because putting needles in it. If you put too much in the same area instead of red it becomes black. Many kids get explained by their parents that drugs are terrible but secretly take it. Some parents also take drugs. Parents take more drugs than their children. Once, someone was forcing someone to buy drugs. That person paid him to try it out, his body demanded more and more. That person died from taking so many durgs. So, you paid money and lost your life. Whatever you do always say no to drugs.