Drugs speech Good afternoon. I’m here to tell you all about the effects of drugs on your young vital stage of development. I am not here to tell you what is right or wrong but I am here to educate you in order to help you make the right decision when faced with the prospect of drugs. Drugs may seem a surprising topic at this point in time‚ but very soon parties will start dominating your social life and drugs and alcohol will crawl themselves in. This is a result of experimentation‚ curiosity
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Designer drug From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Designer drug is a term used to describe drugs which are created (or marketed‚ if they had already existed) to get around existing drug laws‚ usually by modifying the molecular structures of existing drugs to varying degrees‚[1][dubious – discuss] or less commonly by finding drugs with entirely different chemical structures that produce similar subjective effects to illegal recreational drugs. For example mephedrone is a designer drug. History
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Illegal drugs Illegal drugs are drugs which have controls on them by a government and are illegal in certain situations (a person is not allowed to have them). A drug is any chemical designed to affect the human body. A psychoactive drug is a drug that affects the brain. Some controlled drugs are allowed if you have permission (called a "prescription") from a doctor. Other drugs are illegal - meaning you are never allowed to have them. Individual countries and places have different laws about different
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effects of drug abuse amongst the youth A drug can be said to be any substance used in medicine. It can also be said to be any substance taken by some people to get a certain effect‚ such as happiness and excitement. A drug addict is said to be someone whose life has become dependent on drugs‚ hence drug abuse. Peer pressure; - youth associates themselves with different types of people‚ otherwise known as friends. Through the pressure from these friends they tend to have a taste of these drugs and once
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is not responsible for his actions? There is a point of view that drug addicts should “learn their lesson” like other criminals. That could potentially prevent them from committing other crimes. However‚ this might not‚ in fact‚ be the case‚ as‚ according to Langan and Levin (1994)‚ 25 per cent of drug offenders released from prison were back in prison within three years of their release. That indicates that some proportion of drug offenders do not “learn their lesson”. On the other hand‚ same could
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Miss RH 101 8 November 2014 Drug Abuse in Inner Cities Inner-city areas have become the primary location for minorities‚ and the easiest place to find illegal drugs. Evidence shows that there is a link between the increase of illegal drug use‚ and the increase of minorities living in inner-city communities that are unemployed or collect welfare. Bruce D. Johnson states “Drug Abuse in the Inner City: Impact on Hard-Drug Users and the Community” and “Illicit drug use in the inner city expanded
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Medical Marijuana vs. Perception Drugs Americans are some of the luckiest people in the world. They have access to an unlimited food‚ technology‚ and medical care. Which is sometimes taken for granted. People eat to make or can’t look away from a screen. People even get addicted to prescription drugs. Is it worse than medical marijuana. Although marijuana is know as as drug that people should stay away from‚ but is it better than prescription drugs‚ marijuana can help with many aliments‚ medical
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response to problem drug use. Student No: 109495185. Introduction Addiction is a chronic disease‚ and can be progressive‚ relapsing and fatal (Heyman‚ 2009). There are many models of addiction theories. The disease model‚ which sees addiction as a medical condition along the same lines of diabetes and arthritis‚ is the most widely known in the public due to its depiction in media and film as a result of the popularity of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is also the most dominant treatment model in the
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controversy of illegal drugs. Countless research has shown that drugs impact people every day. Yet‚ drugs do not only impact its users. The usage of illegal substances has caused and economic downfall to all of its users. The government has tried many methods to solve the pandemic of illegal substances. Overall drugs do impact society in numerous ways. Like in every‚ nation money has placed a big part on everybody’s life. Without a stable economy‚ many problems will arise. Drugs overall‚ have created
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Drugs and Teenagers Drug use is one of the most serious and concerning issues among teenagers in today’s high schools. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years‚ and it is these years that can be the most crucial in determining how a young person develops as a human being. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity‚ clarifying their sexual roles‚ asserting independence‚ learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that
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