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“Chasing the scream; The first and the Last days of the War on Drugs” is a book written

by a United States journalist Johann Hari on a 30 000 mile journey across the globe that lasted 3

years setting of an intense research on the Abuse of drug, and the history of whence this said war

on drugs really started and what had prompted it. Johann himself was a user as from his

introduction in the book we are led to believe he was abusing the drug fat white narcolepsy pills

for years while he himself was not narcoleptic, he soon thereafter flushes the drugs down a toilet

before he is prompted by his thoughts of inadequacy, to start out on a journey to find answers on

the war on drugs, how it had started, why it was still happening, what caused some people to get

addicted while some didn’t, and what different policies could be adopted to curb the use. In his

journey he comes across many people whose lives had also been changed by this war on drugs,

an example of this being a serial killer in a cage in Texas and a transsexual crack dealer in

Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed his mother. He refers to these people as his teachers.

Haris main reaction to the work is his conclusion that most assumptions of drug abuse were

wrong, that politicians have force fed us for more than a century.

Critical Reflection#1.1

Present-day assessment on drug abuse

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“The arguments we hear today for the drug war are that we must protect teenagers from

drugs, and prevent addiction in general. We assume, looking back, that these were the reasons

this war was launched in the first place. But they were not. They crop up only occasionally, as

asides.” (Chasing the scream; the first and the Last days of the War on Drugs.)

In our current society, the war on drugs is proving a real challenge, it has seen so many

youth rehabilitated over abuse of a number of different drugs, and the war still rages on,

teenagers are falling prey to this drug trials, nowadays drugs are not only snorted or injected,

they have ecstasy, marijuana, methadone, amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin among others.

Statistics on substance abuse by NIDA show that there is an increase in illicit drug use every

year every month, a survey taken in 2013 lists children as young as 12years.The study by NIDA

shows that drug use is highest in people in their late teens and Twenties.

(https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/nationwide-trends) Most parents are thereby

presented with the challenge of trying to understand what inevitably led to the abuse of drugs by

their kids, and what they ought to have done to help. However the book by Harris provides for

new found information that the war on drugs was not initially started for the sake of teens but for

the sake of curbing and battling ‘The less inferior to the white’ races these being the blacks and

the Chinese.

Critical reflection#1.2

Jailing of drug addicts

“One medical expert put it bluntly: “The cocaine nigger,” 190 he warned, “sure is hard to

kill.” Many white Americans did not want to accept that black Americans might be rebelling

because they had lives like Billie Holiday’s—locked into Pig towns and banned from developing

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Surname 1 Chasing the scream book reflection Name Tutor Institution Course Date Introduction “Chasing the scream; The first and the Last days of the War on Drugs” is a book written by a United States journalist Johann Hari on a 30 000 mile journey across the globe that lasted 3 years setting of an intense research on the Abuse of drug, and the history of whence this said war on drugs really started and what had prompted it. Johann himself was a user as from his introduction in the book we are led to believe he was abusing the drug fat white narcolepsy pills for years while he himself was not narcoleptic, he soon thereafter flushes the drugs down a toilet before he is prompted by his thoughts of inadequacy, to start out on a journey to find answers on the war on drugs, how it had started, why it was still happening, what caused some people to get addicted while some didn’t, and what different policies could be adopted to curb the use. In his journey he comes across many people whose lives had also been changed by this war on drugs, an example of this being a serial killer in a cage in Texas and a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed his mother. He refers to these people as his teachers. Haris main reaction to the work is his conclusion that most assumptions of drug abuse were wrong, that politicians have force fed us for more than a century. Critical Reflection#1.1 Present-day assessment on drug abuse Surname 2 “The arguments we hear tod ...
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