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Panopticon? More Like Origamicon. Panopticon? More Like Origamicon “The sporting
editor had also given me $300 dollars in cash, most ...
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Panopticon? More Like Origamicon
“The sporting editor had also given me $300 dollars in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and a dozen raw amyls.” (Thompson, 4) Through this passage, Hunter S. Thompson clearly portrays what America would be like without the authority of drug enforcement laws and pharmacies. Pharmacies keep an automatic functioning of power as described by Michael Focault in his “Panopticon” theory. I will use the Science Direct Journal and Michael Focault’s Panopticism in “The Ways Of Reading” to substantiate my thesis.
Pharmacies do a lot more than insure an automatic functioning of power; they also insure the drugs are not abused. Pharmacies found at a local grocery store serve as the middle men in a long chain of drug distribution. They insure the safe passage of drugs to the intended customers; insuring drugs are not distributed into the wrong hands such as a drug abusers and drug fiends. Of course, there are always the lucky few who still somehow manage to get their hands on these pharmaceutical wonders. Who would not want to though? Pharmacies are stacked with an unfathomable amount of uppers and downers. A patient with unnecessary pain is prescribed pain killers that are adequate to their pain such as: Oxycontin (oxycodone), Vicodin (hydrocodone), Percocet, Morphine, Dilaudid, and Fetinol patches. Fetinol patches and Dilaudid are rarely handed out these days because they amount an incredible high increasing the risk of addiction. Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors are prescribed to patients diagnosed with deep...
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