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    Drug Abuse

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    Effects of Drug Use There are several reasons why individuals experiment with illegal drugs. Some people are curious‚ bored‚ or pressured into it. Yet others are depressed and looking for a quick escape. Regardless of the justification used‚ drugs are very dangerous and habit forming. Many drug users consequently find themselves addicted‚ unhealthy‚ and desolate. First of all‚ Drug use often results in a person becoming addicted to drugs. This type of absorbed behavior to drugs is a complicated

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    Drug Control

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    Better About Drugs As we know‚ all countries in the world prohibited hard drug‚ but it means that we are safe and far from drugs? Definitely not! Drug eliminated from aboveboard; still lived under the night. Prescription drug abuse is the Nation’s fastest-growing drug problem; smuggling of drug can never disappear (2011 National Drug Control Strategy 4). By the way‚ women’s involvement in drug trafficking in recent years has expanded dramatically (Campbell 233). Spreading of Drug decreases

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    Summary This paper summarizes the activity of the drug cartels that is responsible for terrorizing the citizens inside and outside Mexico. They are responsible for ruining young people’s lives by making them addicted to the drugs. These drug cartels are in Mexico and send drugs illegally throughout the world and their goal to make a lot of money by making more people to purchase their drugs. These organizations work like Mafia that no power could stop them from doing so. They have threatened people

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    The War on Drugs

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    L. Casler The War on Drugs University of Southern California Introduction Nearly half a century has passed since Richard Nixon officially declared a War on Drugs. Several theories exist regarding Nixon’s motives behind the declaration. The most commonly cited theory states that the war on drugs was declared in response to the large number of soldiers returning home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin. Proponents argue that Nixon actually declared a War on Drugs in fear of the civil rights

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    Drug Addicts in America should be sent to Rehabilitation Centers instead of Prisons People who possess drugs get sent to jail‚ but how is this supposed to help them defeat their drug addiction? Drug addicts are not criminals! Their crimes are a result of their addiction. They need help! Drug addicts being sent to jail is like putting a sick dog in a cage. Wouldn’t you help the sick dog? Wouldn’t you help the drug addicts? Drug addicts shouldn’t be treated like criminals. They should be helped

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    Drug Withdrawal

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    Drug Withdrawal Drug Withdrawal The documentation is on drug withdrawal and the effects on people going through the situation. When in middle school and high school people become addicted to marijuana which leads to pills and more. The further into drugs people start getting a taste of the game they play to get them. So‚ while people are using and partying all the time‚ they start selling and in time can start to get sick because of having so much going on in their system it can start rejecting

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    Drugs in Prison

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    abuse of illicit drugs within the prison systems on a global basis. With information gathered from various sources such as the internet and one on one interviews with an inmate in a male correctional facility and a former inmate of a female correctional facility I intend to show the rampant flow of drugs in and out of the prison system‚ the control of (or lack there of) by prison officials‚ the drug gangs and dealers in correctional facilities‚ the rate of addiction‚ and treatments available

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    The Allure of Drugs

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    The allure of drugs is one that many people cannot resist. We all know someone who has been affected by drug addiction. It may be a teenager at school who is using marijuana for the first time or a friend you know who has become addicted to meth. Whatever the circumstance‚ there are many things you can do to help someone sober up from drug addiction. Teens are under a lot of pressure to try drugs whether it comes from their curiosity their friends and peers or television and movies. They are also

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    Drug Trafficking

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    11/01/2012 Drug Trafficking From Mexico and Columbian Organizations Drug trafficking in the United States has become a growing problem within the last fifteen years. Mexican and Columbians traffic many different types of drugs across our United States border. Thus‚ creating many problems on “The War on Drugs‚ According to El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC). Most of the cocaine‚ foreign source marijuana‚ methamphetamine

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    drug use to drug abuse

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    Drug Use to Drug Abuse Drug use becomes drug abuse in my opinion when it starts to effect any of the seven dimensions of wellness. The seven dimensions of wellness are emotional‚ intellectual‚ social‚ occupational‚ spiritual‚ environmental‚ and physical. Drugs effect emotional wellness by increasing your stress level creating the fight or flight response in the brain to react more. This can happen while you are under the influence of a drug and your stress level elevates due to worrying

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