What exactly is the definition of a narcotic? A narcotic is a habit forming drug that dulls the senses, relieves pain, or induces sleep. Wouldn't that make almost all drugs illegal...? The difference between the legal and illegal drugs is that there is no difference, in one way or another they can alter the mind if not properly taken. In the world today drugs are looked at as a serious crime, even though most abused …showed first 75 words of 959 total…

…showed last 75 words of 959 total…know already that you don't want to be another statistic. Drugs are used to prevent the pain in every heart. For every tear another pill is popped. Yet the pain returns; family, friends, all feel the emptiness, the silence. The hurt and the anger all return. The user loses reality and so the pain returns. The pain...returns. (Written by an anonymous child for an anti-drug writing contest, sponsored by a Long Island newspaper, Fall 1989.)