The Price You Pay

As young children grow into young adulthood they must travel through a period of extreme danger; one that is best to just be avoided. The increasing occurrence of teenagers using various kinds of substance drugs has caused huge problems with the leaders of tomorrow. This has become an even bigger issue in just the past day because of a huge drug bust among nearly 100 college students. No longer do students focus on just one drug, but now they tend to use many different kinds so that they can feel ‘it’ more. More and more kids are getting involved in various drugs and they are beginning to do so at even younger ages; raising the health risks.

It is a shame to see so many teenagers spending all of their salaries on drugs and the purchases that they are required to make. All of a sudden a student has spent all of their graduation money buying drugs behind their parents’ backs. What a nice graduation present, huh? Just to think of all of the money that is spent yearly by the millions of people who chose to smoke marijuana or snort cocaine. Even with such drugs being illegal, people become so addicted to them that they cannot force themselves to stop, even after being either arrested or kept in jail.

Now we are investigating one of the largest drug busts in history and government officials are having the troubles choosing what to do with these convicts. There were 96 different people arrested in this case, with 75 of them being San Diego State college students. These people will always have to pay the price of their actions; choosing to not only use these drugs but also deal them. Such a drastic event will never leave them along in the future; the memory of their mistake will haunt them forever. This just goes to show that many students are hiding a lot from their family and friends.

There is so much sneaking around and lying involved in such a case. Authority figures have not been able to keep teenagers from getting involved in drugs, and I am not sure if they will ever be able to. With people dying from drug usage there has been a lot of controversy with punishment for getting caught with such substances. We need to preserve the young children today so they don’t grow up with high influences of different kinds of drugs. There is a huge need to do so, immediately. But for now the people who are already involved with always have to pay the price for their actions.

Mourn for the Dead; Hope for the Missing

People often find it hard to relate to natural disasters that take place in foreign locations, beyond their own eyes. The numbers then startle these same people and force them to realize that the truth is taking place right on the other side of their same world. When Cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Myanmar less than a week ago, thousands of citizens were taken by complete surprise without the warning systems that we have developed in the United States. National News Stations are now informing us that around 25,000 are already dead with around 41,000 Myanmarans still missing in the rubble. This kind of destruction is only available to us in the United States through traumatic pictures and the short video clips from newsmen.

Unexpectedness of such a disaster struck a country that was already high in financial deficits. Many citizens live in poverty and have to deal with religious and social restrictions involving high levels of violence. After such a horrendous work of Mother Nature even more citizens are going to be living in poverty. The conditions that Myanmarans are living through currently will end up killing even more people, anywhere from starvation to infection. Now various countries have been sending multiple types of aid to the citizens and their home country so that they can recover from the disaster.

The one problem with all of this is that Myanmar is not accepting any money from the United States. They are refusing any form of aid currently because they would like to prove that they have the capability to support their own citizens and social conflicts. This part confuses me; I don’t have faith that Myanmar has a government that is organized enough to plan out a very cohesive recovery plan. There is a lot of hope to find all of the missing peoples but it is highly known that many of these people are already dead and stuck under the tremendous amounts of rubble on the coast. There is going to be years of recovery that will take millions of volunteers and billions of dollars to repair. There is no way that it can by done without the U.S.

Looking at the pictures of crying mothers and baby boys, I automatically feel remorse for not being able to help these Myanmarans. If a disaster were any closer to the United States many more Americans would be caring about these citizens who are living in torturous conditions. Currently there is nothing to do but hope for the citizens and their loved ones who have either perished or are still undiscovered. Even though we are not directly related to these Myanmarans we must mourn for their dead and hope for their missing. It is our duty as Americans to care and help others who are in need of any type of aid. We must always give what we would hope to receive in return.

The Attack of STAPH

A long lingering trouble among young adults today is the spread of the dangerous and deadly STAPH infection. The disease is very personal, affecting close friends and family of many people across the United States. An even scarier thought can be seen through the increasing number of STAPH cases that have sprouted up among Americans in the past few years. The lives of the survivors around a victim are affected seriously, and through quite disastrous feelings of remorse and lethargy. Methods of preventing STAPH have proved to be inefficient because of the fresh breakthrough that the disease has brought to the world. STAPH has risen in popularity but the treatments have not necessarily improved to go along with it. This is definitely a serious issue that will be prominent in the future American societies.

The symptoms that are visible to the human eye for STAPH infection are really not close to visible at all. There are many victims that fall dead to the disease without ever having a single indication of having the bacterium in their system. Others will get a warning sign just hours before their death. These are the sad stories of the innocent people who lose their lives under terrible consequences. The way that STAPH works with the human body was mystical for many years and it took a lot of researchers a lot of time and money to discover the beginnings of the disease. In teens, most staph infections are minor skin infections.

People are exposed to staph infections from contaminated objects. However, the staph bacterium is always going to be spread through skin-to-skin contact and can is easily contracted from one person to another without notice. This can explain why many college students get STAPH infection; the closeness that the students experience while they are in dorms proves very prevalent for the spread of the bacterium. If a bed linen, towel, or pieces of clothing is infected the bacterium can live for a long period of time, being able to spread to other items and people much later. This is why STAPH has caught many people by surprise.

Knowing a couple of people who have been infected with STAPH infection I have quickly been exposed to the seriousness of the subject. Although there is no way I can completely protect myself from getting STAPH there are still some steps that I think many people should take. Staying healthy and keeping away from the general germs can help eliminate some of the chances of STAPH infection. There are high hopes, for in the future, that STAPH infection and its number of cases begins to diminish. The effects are deadly and the cases are quite scary, but still today STAPH continues to attack!