This article‚ from U.S News‚ discusses the the drug abuse crisis that America is experiencing today and what President Obama plans to do about it. America has seen drug abuse spike not only among lower classes‚ but also among middle class Americans‚ white and black. In recent years‚ drug overdoses‚ particularly with Opioids- which have morphine- like effects‚ have even killed more people than motor vehicle accidents have. President Obama plans to end this crisis by expanding access to treatments
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Informative Speech Outline: Brittany Frye Title: Adderall Effects & Abuse Topic: Adderall Effects & Abuse Specific Purpose: To inform why people take Adderall‚ what it does to the body and how and why it is abused. Thesis Statement: To inform why people take Adderall‚ what it does to the body and how and why it is abused. Audience Appeal: College students are the biggest abusers. Introduction Attention material: I know first had what it’s like to have so much on your plate. • Between school‚ work
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Testing for Drugs of Abuse U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES • Public Health Service • Alcohol‚ Drug Abuse‚ and Mental Health Administration Urine Testing for Drugs of Abuse Editors: Richard L. Hawks‚ Ph.D. C. Nora Chiang‚ Ph.D. Division of Preclinical Research National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA Research Monograph 73 1986 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service Alcohol‚ Drug Abuse‚ and Mental Health Administration National Institute on Drug Abuse 5600
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Therefore‚ the start of this increase in drug abuse and widespread illness is due to the condemning ignorance in which the United States is responsible for. If there would have been doctors involved that would have alerted the people of the great dangers of drug abuse and cocaine and crack cocaine addiction as doctors Smith and Wesson tried to warn the country. The 1960s drug use were characterized as “youthful rebellion.”It gained the attention of the President Nixon and therefore he established
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OUTLINE I) JOB DESCRIPTION AND DUTIES 1.treat people in recovery a.help talk about‚ understand‚ and cope with their problems 2. work to prevent drug and alcohol abuse 3.educate parents to get involved in children’s exposure to drug and alcohol 4. counsel family and friends of addicts a. asks questions and concerns they may have b. finds out how they think addiction is impacting their life
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are various types of drugs. Sometimes we need to take drugs to relief the pain or cure the diseases. Drug has two definitions. Medical definition is substance to treat or prevent some diseases. For sociological definition‚ it is habit-forming chemical affecting brain or physiological functions. The second drug has the more potential to be abused than drug for medical. According to the lecture‚ the professor stated that drug abuse is to use unacceptable drugs and/or normal drugs excessively or incorrect
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eml3FdNffxU&feature=related (start at 0.8) (30 seconds) Some of you may remember back in 5th grade the D.A.R.E song. You know the song about staying away from drugs and making your own choices. Come on! It had little dance moves that went along with the words. Well if you don’t remember‚ heres an example of the Chapman Elementary school in Dublin Ohio singing at their D.A.R.E graduation. (play video) Who went through a program like this in their elementary school
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Outline. The Effects Of Child Abuse. Introduction : Child Abuse is any physical and emotional mistreatment of a child. It is prominent in the form of injuries or how a child behaves. Child abuse can cause severe damage to the abused child even when the child has grown into an adult. This is because they have to deal with the psychological‚ physical and behavioural effect that is resulted from the abuse. Point 1 : Livestrong states that the physical injury of a child is the most obvious result
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Effects of child abuse: on children Kareem Ashraf Modern Science and Arts University Outline 1. Introduction 2.1 defining child abuse 2.2 common effects of child abuse 2.3 how to prevent child abuse 2. Literature Review 3.4 N.A.I.C researched how abuse affects the child 3.5 Researchers studies the effects of abuse on children 3.6 N.A.I.C clarified how to prevent child abuse 3. Discussion 4.7 Child abuse could be cause by several
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statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse show some areas of drug use decreasing among middle school and high school students‚ past-year use of illicit drugs numbers still landed at around 27.2 percent. Many treatments work well for both adults and teenagers‚ but teens come with unique problems and issues that often require more specialized programs. While they’re used to be a lack of resources for teenage addicts‚ an increased awareness of adolescent drug abuse has given way to a greater amount
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