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Imagine a world without television? For many people worldwide, and in developing countries, no one owns a television, and the nearest television is likely miles away. Lucky bastards, or unfortunate few? According to the A.C. Neilson company, ninety-nine percent of households in America own a television. I suspect the one percent that doesn’t, is by choice. Sixty-six percent of American homes have three or more televisions. Guess I’m a minority here, as we have only one. At least only one working, plugged in television. This next statistic, is the one that really gets me. On average the television is on six hours and forty-seven minutes per day in a household. Wow! That’s almost like an entire work day. That’s

250 billion hours of television watched annually by Americans. Probably something like 60 billion hours in commercials alone. Just imagine the kind of things that could be accomplished in 250 billion hours? Staggering isn’t it? Now, if television is not some form of drug addiction, then I don’t know what is.

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Professional athletes have been in the news a lot over the past few years, either being accused or admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs. Major league baseball has taken several hits with accusations being brought against some of their top players, such as home-run king Mark McGwire, who took the fifth amendment to not incriminate himself during Congressional questioning on the subject. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees, and Olympic sprinter Marion Jones are a few others, who have been accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs. More than 20 athletes were thrown out of the 2004 Olympic Games for doping violations , and at least two gold medal winners forfeited their

wins and medals for using such drugs.

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Prescription drug abuse is now poised to become more commonplace then the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide. While waging the war on drugs, Americans have painted a picture of DEA agents stealthily or not so stealthily surprising drug runners in their dangerous routes and recesses, spanning the far corners of the world. It is not as if people did not know that prescription drug abuse existed, but for it to become so prevalent shocks us, and throws new images of fighting the war on drugs in our mind s eye. How did this happen? Does this mean we are winning the war on conventional illegal drugs? Does it mean drug use of any kind is just becoming more

prevalent in society? Were the government agencies caught off guard or does the citizenry chose to ignore people s self-destruction? What does it all mean?

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Oxycodone is a prescription drug that acts as a depressant of the central nervous system. It is a narcotic, much like Vicodin and morphine and is used to treat moderate to severe pain like that caused by fractures, arthritis, childbirth and serious diseases like Cancer

Going by such brand names as Percocet, OxyContin, Tylox and Percodan, oxycodone is an opiate that is highly addictive and is being abused by many. When taken repeatedly, one can become tolerant to the drug, therefore requiring higher doses to experience the same effects. Oxycodone is often mistakenly referred to as oxycotton. While OxyContin is a brand name of the drug, oxycotton is just a misspelling of the name. This drug is also referred

to as oxy and hillbilly heroin on the street.

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Imagine a world without television? For many people worldwide, and in developing countries, no one owns a television, and the nearest television is likely miles away. Lucky bastards, or unfortunate few? According to the A.C. Neilson company, ninety-nine percent of households in America own a television. I suspect the one percent that doesn’t, is by choice. Sixty-six percent of American homes have three or more televisions. Guess I’m a minority here, as we have only one. At least only one working, plugged in television. This next statistic, is the one that really gets me. On average the television is on six hours and forty-seven minutes per day in a household. Wow! That’s almost like an entire work day. That’s

250 billion hours of television watched annually by Americans. Probably something like 60 billion hours in commercials alone. Just imagine the kind of things that could be accomplished in 250 billion hours? Staggering isn’t it? Now, if television is not some form of drug addiction, then I don’t know what is.

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