Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment
SOCIOLOGY UNIT 1 IP ASSIGNMENT
Keylondre Hayes
AIU online
Millions of Americans tend to abuse the use of illegal drug, and regularly become reoccurring drug addicts. Drug addiction in the use of illegal drugs can exceed more than a billion dollars annually in the United States alone. Drug abuse can also affect health including mental disorders that are described to be a destructive pattern of using a substance that leads to important problems. Drug abuse is known to lead to problems involving withdrawal which occurs in heavy users of substances. Withdrawal is medically known to last days to weeks at times; depending on how long the individual has been involved in the drug usage. …show more content…
20 percent of all hospitals costs are nearly $1million of every $4 Medicare spends on impatient care is dealing with substance abuse. More than half of the individuals in state prison/jails have illegal used drugs regularly. The economic burden of drug addicts in the U.S. is two times more effective than any other disease affecting the brain which can include Parkinson’s which is an untreatable nervous disorder and Alzheimer’ which affects the memory and causes patients to have a sense of dementia. The use of drugs can vary from inhalants, ingestion, needles and many more. Several of the most costly health care problems are the result of substance abuse. Included are lung disease from smoking, HIV/AIDS which can transfer from the use of needles, etc. Tobacco use results in a staggering number of 430,700 deaths, and alcohol abuse causes 100,000 deaths …show more content…
About fifty to eighty percent of child abuse cases involve substance abuse by the children’s parents. A neglected child tends to repeat the tragic moments that occurred in his/her childhood. Kids who suffer repeated trauma feel discarded, distanced from those around them, and scared. Abused children tend to become bitter human beings, with mental consequences that last long after physical wounds heal which can cause the effect to travel into future relationships. More than 75 percent of all domestic violence cases were caused by people under the influence of drugs. Realizing that addiction can be considered as a brain disease. Addiction can be described as compulsive, and some even consider it to be a uncontrollable drug craving. Going back to abused and neglected children addiction can become genetic, behavioral, environmental, and developmental. The usage of drugs is at first a choice (voluntary) but this can quickly die. The human brain is a remarkable complex of communications network that is programed to reward certain behaviors so that we will tend to crave bad habits, with prolonged abstinence from the usage of drugs the brain can in fact recover at least some of the former functioning. Enabling them the regain control of their lives. Some ways to prevent becoming an abuser of drugs is to identify risks and creating better prevention programs. Prevention is to understand the brain circuitry involved in the
Keylondre Hayes
AIU online
Millions of Americans tend to abuse the use of illegal drug, and regularly become reoccurring drug addicts. Drug addiction in the use of illegal drugs can exceed more than a billion dollars annually in the United States alone. Drug abuse can also affect health including mental disorders that are described to be a destructive pattern of using a substance that leads to important problems. Drug abuse is known to lead to problems involving withdrawal which occurs in heavy users of substances. Withdrawal is medically known to last days to weeks at times; depending on how long the individual has been involved in the drug usage. …show more content…
20 percent of all hospitals costs are nearly $1million of every $4 Medicare spends on impatient care is dealing with substance abuse. More than half of the individuals in state prison/jails have illegal used drugs regularly. The economic burden of drug addicts in the U.S. is two times more effective than any other disease affecting the brain which can include Parkinson’s which is an untreatable nervous disorder and Alzheimer’ which affects the memory and causes patients to have a sense of dementia. The use of drugs can vary from inhalants, ingestion, needles and many more. Several of the most costly health care problems are the result of substance abuse. Included are lung disease from smoking, HIV/AIDS which can transfer from the use of needles, etc. Tobacco use results in a staggering number of 430,700 deaths, and alcohol abuse causes 100,000 deaths …show more content…
About fifty to eighty percent of child abuse cases involve substance abuse by the children’s parents. A neglected child tends to repeat the tragic moments that occurred in his/her childhood. Kids who suffer repeated trauma feel discarded, distanced from those around them, and scared. Abused children tend to become bitter human beings, with mental consequences that last long after physical wounds heal which can cause the effect to travel into future relationships. More than 75 percent of all domestic violence cases were caused by people under the influence of drugs. Realizing that addiction can be considered as a brain disease. Addiction can be described as compulsive, and some even consider it to be a uncontrollable drug craving. Going back to abused and neglected children addiction can become genetic, behavioral, environmental, and developmental. The usage of drugs is at first a choice (voluntary) but this can quickly die. The human brain is a remarkable complex of communications network that is programed to reward certain behaviors so that we will tend to crave bad habits, with prolonged abstinence from the usage of drugs the brain can in fact recover at least some of the former functioning. Enabling them the regain control of their lives. Some ways to prevent becoming an abuser of drugs is to identify risks and creating better prevention programs. Prevention is to understand the brain circuitry involved in the