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    Prenatal Drug Abuse

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    Prenatal drug abuse is a very tragic‚ yet preventable issue in our society. For a pregnant woman‚ drug abuse is doubly dangerous. Drugs may harm her own health‚ interfering with her ability to support the pregnancy. Also‚ some drugs can directly impair prenatal development. All illegal drugs‚ such as heroin and cocaine‚ pose dangers to a pregnant woman. Legal substances‚ such as alcohol and tobacco‚ are also dangerous‚ and even medical drugs‚ both prescription and over-the-counter‚ can be harmful

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    Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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    Tavish Hower Mr. Peterson Plutto4@aol.com English 101 11 December 2012 Teenage Alcohol and Drug Abuse  Every hour‚ over 3‚500 teenagers try drugs for the first time. (Drug facts) This outrageous statistic sadly applies to many of my classmates and peers. Through first hand experiences and other people’s mistakes‚ I have learned the dangers of teen alcohol and drug abuse. In Desert Mountain High School alone‚ over 50 percent of the 20 students I asked smoke marijuana on a fairly regular basis. Marijuana

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    Drug Abuse and Prevention

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    idea of prevention is to limit the availability of drugs (Hart & Ksir‚ 2011‚ p. 400)‚ but this is not essentially the best way. Addiction affects everyone. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)‚ substance abuse cost our nation “more than $484 billion dollars (The National Institute on Drug Abuse ).” So although you might not be directly impacted by drug abuse‚ as a whole your tax dollars are spent on fighting the war on drugs. Currently there are several different types of substance

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    Moral Decline Among Youth

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    FACTORS OF MORAL DECLINE AMONG MALAYSIAN YOUTH I. Introduction Moral is not only attitude but covering all the aspect of life. As the communities that are often being part of the victims of the ‘surrounding’‚ youth are often exposed to the negative elements that could spoil the mind‚ lifestyle‚ culture‚ behaviour and their interaction with society. Some of the factors are materialism‚ hedonistic‚ individualistic and westernization. II. Body A. One of the factors is the materialism. 1. Materialistic

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    Prescription Drug Abuse

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    Prescription drug abuse (PDA) is the use of prescribed medication using it in a way not intended by the prescribing doctor such as for the experience or in the sense of being provoked. Prescription drugs come in various configurations and perform an assortment of purposes. Pain relief medications can be prescribed for minor strained muscles or traumatic surgical procedures. Abusing prescription drugs can cause negative effects such

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    Drug Abuse in Society

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    acts of violence with relation to drug abuse. Drug abuse is regarded to as a personal and antisocial dependence which usually leads to a punishable offense by authorities. Social conflict theory and drug abuse would be considered a problem of inequality and class conflict. While drug abuse is a problem throughout society‚ a conflict theory would argue that minorities or lower class groups are more likely to suffer‚ because of the negative consequences from drug abuse. Sociologists can analyze with

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    Drug Abuse in Malaysia

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    Drug Abuse in Malaysia Drugs is a type of substance which can be medicinal‚ intoxicating‚ or used to improve performance and can also have other effects when taken by any individual or also animal. Drugs are viewed differently from every culture. Some views it as a healing ingredient while some might take it as normal food intake. Drugs molecules are complex and it mainly consist of hydrogen and carbon atoms‚ oxygen atoms‚ nitrogen atoms‚ Recreational drugs generally is that an individual can

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    Effects of Drug Abuse

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    Effects of Drug Abuse People who use drugs experience a wide array of physical effects other than those expected. The excitement of a cocaine effect‚ for instance‚ is followed by a "crash" : a period of anxiety‚ fatigue‚ depression‚ and an strong desire to use more cocaine to alleviate the feelings of the crash. Marijuana and alcohol interfere with motor control and are factors in many automobile accidents. Users of marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs may experience flashbacks‚ unwanted recurrences

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    Prescription Drug Abuse

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    Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic Kartia Kelly COM/156 May 19‚ 2013 Eileen Kicmal A recent poll conducted by the Partnership for a Drug Free America found that adolescents listed drugs as the most important problem facing people their age; prescription drug use is a major problem in our country. (Sallin‚ 2006; Partnership for a Drug Free America). In the United States the second most commonly abused category of drugs are prescription drugs‚ which is then followed

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    Prescription Drug Abuse

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    Prescription and Drug Abuse I am introducing an Ethical dilemma of “Prescription and Drug Abuse.” This topic will be very beneficial to me. Since I am in the process of majoring in Pharmaceuticals‚ it will relate to any future encounters of drug abuse in work areas‚ at home‚ or even in the hospital. Prescription abuse is uneasy encounter that needs crucial attention to be controlled as much as possible. Prescription drugs will always have an abuser. There will be people that approach the situation

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