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    What Is a Drug

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    What is a drug? A drug may be defined as any substance other than food that by its chemical nature affects the structure and function of the living organism. Why do people use drugs? It has been shown that there are two main reasons why people use drugs.   1. Using drugs because it feels good and/or their friends are doing it 2. Using drugs because they are suffering from emotional or physical abuse‚ or because they suffer from mental disorders. When is it considered abuse? Medical and governmental

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    world’s most dangerous‚ deadly and diabolical drug is readily available at our fingertips. A drug that sentences approximately 5‚475 people to death each year is a legal substance. In fact‚ currently in Australia it plays a major role in our iconic Australian Identity; our drinking culture. Alcohol is a drug‚ and it’s time we stop looking at it through rose-coloured glasses and see it for the life destroying substance it is. It is a recreational drug that has a profound negative effect on the human

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    Alcohol Annotated Bibliography. Introduction. This Annotated Bibliography has been developed in co-ordination with an Alcohol Poster presentation‚ with the aim of elucidating the dangers alcohol has on a person’s health and wellbeing. The author chose alcohol as a topic‚ as it is well-known to be dangerous but in contrast it is readily available for people to purchase. Alcohol dependency has serious detrimental effects on people’s health and social lives. The World Health Organisation (WHO‚ 2008)

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    war with the drugs

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    Ladies and Gentlemen where do we stand on the war WITH drugs Right across the globe‚ the youth is faced with numerous challenges.  The worst and most pressing include unemployment‚ neglect from parents or guardians‚ sexual abuse‚ allurements into engaging in criminal activities and poverty.  In many occasions‚ these challenges have pushed the youth into drug abuse.  Once hooked‚ chances in life for the youth caught in the alcohol and drug abuse web quickly diminish and lives are easily ruined.

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    Legalization of Drugs: Against Everyone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems that drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so widespread that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most serious problems in today’s world‚ threatening the security and freedom of whole nations. Politicians‚ health experts and much of the general public feel that no issue is more important than drug abuse. America’s other pressing social

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    Timothy London Professor Mark Carson Hist 2057 12 February 2015 Amusing the Million In John Kasson’s 1978 novel “Amusing the Million”‚ he presents Coney Island as a revolutionary tool used as an escape from the post-World War One industrialized society. He demonstrates how the genteel culture strived to keep society in control and in order‚ but was overtaken by the likes Coney Island and other culture shocks. In my opinion‚ Coney Island was much more than just an amusement park or just an escape

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    Prescription Drugs

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    Prescription Drugs Prescription drugs are taking a toll on the people who use them‚ not only their wallets but their health also. Doctors are becoming more interested in money than the overall health of their patients. What is the normal doctor visit for someone who has leg pain? A quick drive to the office‚ have the doctor come in and ask‚ “Does this hurt?” “Does it hurt when I do this?” These are pretty standard questions that can only really be measured by the patient. So

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    Marijuana a Gateway Drug?

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    Gateway Drug First time marijuana use will lead to harder drugs‚ creates health risks including HIV. Earleywine‚ M. (2004). Marijuana Is Not a Gateway to Other Addictive Drugs. Most marijuana users do not touch hard drugs. First time marijuana use does not mean an individual will use harder drugs because people will use whatever drug is available when they are ready to experiment. According to data from the 2000 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)‚ 14 million Americans

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    Drug wars

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    America is at war. We have been fighting drug abuse for almost a century. Four Presidents have personally waged war on drugs. Unfortunately‚ it is a war that we are losing. Drug abusers continue to fill our courts‚ hospitals‚ and prisons. The drug trade causes violent crime that ravages our neighborhoods. Children of drug abusers are neglected‚ abused‚ and even abandoned. The only beneficiaries of this war are organized crime members and drug dealers. The United States has been engaged in

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    Health Promotion & Alcohol

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    GROUP: According to the World health Organisation 2009‚ Alcohol is one of the world’s top three priority areas in public health. I am trying to prevent alcohol dependence among the under 30’s as…….As you can see from the bar chart prevalence has shown that there has been a 11 year rise in alcoholic liver disease deaths between 2002 and 2012. As you can see from this graph from The Office of National Statistics‚ 2012‚ it shows the Top 5 alcohol related deaths by causes and age group‚ England and Wales

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