Overpopulation Effect On Legal And Illegal Drug Addiction

Overpopulation effect on legal and illegal drug addiction

Overpopulation is a demographic phenomenon that occurs when the high density of the population causes negative consequences in the environment. These sequelae can be of various types such as damage to the environment, destruction of ecosystems, famine, conflicts, decreased quality of life, among others.

 Overpopulation is considered a contemporary problem of great relevance because the world’s population grows at approximately 200.000 people per day, according to World Bank projections for 2012. Limited resources, such as the geographical space suitable for life, concern the growing population that is greater than the unemployed population. This is due to the advances of the last 100 years that have allowed an improvement in food, the generalization of hygiene, health, dissemination of medicines and general technology development. 

The population continues to grow and in turn grows the concern of scientists, sociologists and politicians because the current amount according to the latest demographic report of the United Nations (2017) reaches 7.550 million people. He took humans around 200.000 years to reach a global population of one billion, but in two hundred years we have septuled it. In fact, in the last 40 years, we have added an extra billion every 12 years. And the United Nations predict that we will add another four billion – for a total of 11 billion – towards the end of the century.

Despite this, few scientists, legislators, or even environmentalists are willing to publicly connect this incredible population growth with the climate change that worsens, with the loss of biodiversity, the shortage of resources or the economic crisis unleashed globally. Currently, 34% of the world population lives in extreme poverty and hunger, and ecosystems are losing species at rates only seen in previous events of mass extinctions. 

But, not happy with that, human beings have designed new forms of escapism that dramatically attempt against their own existence. Addiction is a chronic, recurring disease, characterized by compulsive drug search and consumption, despite its negative physical, psychic and social consequences. José Ángel Cisneros (cited by Reynoso Dávila, 2004) points out […] as causes of the increase in crime: the increasingly acute crisis of the capitalist social organization;the growth of the population with the consequent agglomeration in urban areas and low neighborhoods and the increase of unemployed, lazy and worse;the notorious disproportion of the increase in population and public services;Cinematographer and television as morbidity schools;the relaxation of customs;The journalistic blackmail.

There is certainly a proportional relationship between overpopulation and addictions. As the population increases, poverty increases and as poverty increases drug. More than a circle behaves like a spiral. In fact, in 2017, 271 million people consumed some type of narcotic substance. This means that more than 5.5 % of the world’s population between 15 and 64 had contact with drugs. 

The last World Drug Report, which has been published by the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) alerts an increase of almost 46% in the last eight years. If the people who consumed drugs formed a country, would take fourth place in number of inhabitants. One thing leads to another. The frustration of citizens generates violence and that of governments, shortage. Only the frustrations of our species have continued to evolve.

The logic however escapes when referring to the government apparatus, you understand the "burocracy". Drug users increase and, on the other hand, decrease public resources for help against drug addiction and care resources. Let’s see, 6% of the world population that consumed some type of drug in 2018, which is equivalent to around 280 million people (nine million more than the previous year);At least 197.000 died due to direct causes related to narcotics. Only one in six people who require treatment for these disorders receives assistance, most in developed countries, says the report prepared by the United Nations Office against Drug and Crime (UNUD). 

In addition to deaths, the report indicates the loss of healthy years of healthy life ’due to premature deaths and disability caused by drug use. ‘The magnitude of the damage caused by drug use is evident in the 29 million years of life’ healthy ‘(years of life adjusted based on disability) that, according to estimates, were lost in 2018 worldwidefor the use of drugs, ‘said said report.

There is an economy that has not only resisted the economic crisis, but has grown with it: black markets. The illegal articles and services has become the second largest economy on the planet, threatening to snatch the throne from the United States. Only the five greatest illegal markets on the planet move almost 475.000 million dollars a year, an amount higher than the GDP of more than 170 countries and territories. The blacklist of this economy outside the law that gives work to dozens of millions of people, is headed by drug trafficking. Based on the data provided by international organizations such as the World Bank or the UN, the magazine ‘The Economist’ points out that the world drug trafficking market generates 240.000 million dollars annually. And most likely they are short. Accounting the benefits of drug trafficking is practically impossible and estimates are made from drug volumes seized by different police forces. Politics entrepreneurs once again take advantage of the electoral "market" to hurt the economy of their countries.

 Drug addiction then not only represents a clinical phenomenon, but one of the main dishes in the Voraz Capitalism menu. The big fish engulfing nations and consciences. The rulers on duty give the police autonomy and claim subordination. As politics mostly, he looks in the short term, this pact with the police and justice suits him. It is then possible to ask ourselves, are the interests of the "entrepreneurs" the interests of the population as a whole? Do they advocate for the common good? Our analysis starts from the firm conviction that no. That entrepreneurs think about getting the greatest margin of benefits and continuing to exploit material and human resources. But, it is not entrepreneurs who have to determine the future of democratic societies, that is up to us.

People run to drugs in search of happiness, to mitigate their own insecurities, as well as the disappointments inflicted by an elitist and ambiguous society. They become drug addicts to stop depending on the world. Logic dictates that popularity is well worth sacrifice. However, once basic needs are met, there are plent. Certainly, in many cases, basic needs are not covered, which forces to combine the proposal for the decline with a radical redistribution proposal of wealth. According to an estimate, on average, the inhabitants of the “progressive” societies each of 10 have.000 objects while there are many members of indigenous tribes of Latin America that each with 100 objects or less, but we are not one hundred times happier than they.

There is a serious perception problem born from fraudulent identification between consumption and happiness. In opulent societies, hyperconsume. We have lost the etymological key of the word ‘leisure’. Leisure is business antithesis. Creative leisure implies the search for leisure forms not linked to money, not commercialized because, in the end, the leisure that is offered is a dramatically commercialized, packaged and highly harmful leisure. Creative leisure implies an leisure in which more or less natural human communities generate their own leisure mechanisms outside the cultural industry or at least relatively to the margin. 

Nor is it about despising everything the cultural industry does, but unfortunately the leisure and the offer that is given to us is something canned and nothing creative that translates into a striking phenomenon that is that the same products are consumed everywhere, the same products are consumed,They listen to the same music, the same films are seen and the same books are read. It is time for us to do something that causes a regrowth of popular culture, which reflects singularized realities of each of the places. It is time to break the programming that has kept us for years depending on the State and quasi criminal activities. Enough of the rejoñismo of which we are subject to the great economic powers that surreptitiously control the news, laws, worldview and education that we receive.

Social consumption and addiction to legal and illegal drugs in the massive way in which it happens, on account of a serious social problem, denounces a sick society. We understand that these consumerist and addictive behaviors are not elections of life but emerging from the state of health and social disease. Pharmacodependence is a multifactorial disease that affects psycho-social, physiological, pharmacological, environmental, genetic variables and as we have defended throughout our analysis, demographic.

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