Drug Abuse In Octavia Butler's Parable Of The Sower

Drug abuse is a damaging issue occurring all over the world, putting many lives at risk each day with casualties increasing tremendously. This research focuses on how drug abuse develops, how it affects our brain and our body, and the cycle you go through, as well as relapse. This will connect to Octavia Butler’s novel, Parable of the Sower, supporting the events surrounding drug use, and illustrates the character development within those in the story. The infamous drug Pyro is abused in the novel and gives an unworldly feeling unlike any other experienced before. Drug abuse can have many potential effects on individuals depending on what stage they reach, the duration, and any psychological shifts that may take place. Drug abuse is a recurring

All night, they’ll be burning things. Things and people” (Butler 305). This is a prime example of the effects of drug abuse and gives evidence of the challenges the brain faces while staring directly in the face, which also ties into the article “Drug Abuse: Trends, Issues, and Management” discussing methods that are taken in the hope of dismantling high-trafficking drug operations all around us. The High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) organization works to combat the demand for a supply of illegal drugs as well as provides law enforcement with the resources necessary to investigate and prevent future imports into the United States. “Congress initially created the HIDTA program through the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and permanently authorized it in the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006” (Daniels

She has suffered the effects through her mother when she smoked illegal drugs all throughout her pregnancy and has developed a condition of hyperempathy that she battles each day. Along with taking preventative measures to reduce drug abuse, considering ways of solving rising issues is just as important to have in place if the preventatives fail and you have a life threatening situation on your hands. Within the article, “Behavioral Therapies for Drug Abuse” the author, Kathleen Carroll continues on to discuss ways of managing substance abuse including the World Drug Problem expanding from The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) which has battled drug addiction issues for years. In 2016, they worked alongside the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to create new drug policies for reform. These organizations continually work to revise their strategies and policies to best fit countries' needs based on their drug abuse statistics and also implement methods to control new accidental drug abuse in people’s