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Drug use
* Most drug use is casual marijuana use.
* Some drug use occurs on school property.
* affects more than just the user
  - the whole working class
* allows a person to temporarily live in that dangerous zone between reality and fantasy.
* appears to be rising in inner-city neighborhoods where addiction problems are most severe.
* can affect lymph nodes.
* can also be dangerous for people who are taking anti-HIV medications
  - cause birth defects
  - lead to legal problems, financial hardships, and social difficulties
  - alter the mind and cause people to do serious violence to others
  - cause heart and breathing problems
  - change a healthy brain into a diseased brain, and the damage can be permanent
  - interfere with academic success
  - lead to missed doses of anti-HIV medications
  - make trigger stress or mental illness, or exacerbate already existing issues
  - provide meaning for young people who believe that life is otherwise meaningless
  - put the mother in danger, too
* causes addiction
  - memory loss
* cuts across all economic, social and educational backgrounds.
* definite sign that working out has become a harmful obsession.
* goes up dramatically in the first year of middle school or junior high.
* harms people of every economic class.
* has harmful effects on people physically, emotionally, spiritually and socially.
* huge problem, both performance enhancing and mind-altering.
* impacts both individual users and society.
* imposes an unacceptable risk of harm on the user and others
  - unfair burden on government-subsidised health systems
* increases the risk for domestic violence, child abuse, and workplace violence.
* is affected far more by social attitudes, fashions and information than by laws
  - an acknowledged fact of life in every prison in the country
  - another important aspect of a woman's health during pregnancy
  - associated with clubbing, although the use of Ecstasy now extends beyond the club scene
  - common and on the rise among young people
  - extremely unpredictable and affects people differently
  - foolishness of the worst kind
  - higher among white youth than black youth
  - illegal, and drug users are highly stigmatised
  - intrinsic to society
  - less common in families where a good relationship exists between parents and children
  - linked with poor adherence, which can lead to treatment failure
* is rampant across age groups
  - at government schools
  - in all sports
  - thought to be an emerging problem with the secondary age group
  - unique to modern Western cultures
* leads to an increase in health care costs
  - crime
  - dependence and causes irreparable emotional and physical damage
  - individual and social harms through many different mechanisms
* makes health care more expensive, neighborhoods more dangerous and jails more crowded.
* needs to be distinguished from drug abuse.
* preventable behavior.
* remains at an all-time high.
* scourge on our society, exacting a terrible toll in lost lives.
* serious health problem.
* social evil requiring tough enforcement of prohibition.
* varies from nation to nation.
* victimless crime.
* voluntary behavior.

Ease of use
* depends on the age of computers and the technology used to connect to the Internet.
* is an often abused term in the computer industry today
  - the cardinal principle that drives mass market adoption of new technologies
  - where a service provider's business becomes visible to customers

Electricity use
* is measured from the charge source
  - in kilowatts per hour
  - the foundation for much of our way of life
* rises in the winter.
* varies from household to household, season, and other factors.