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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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    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 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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    Alcohol and Drug Abuse

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    Religion speech Hello fellow classmates‚ today I’m going to inform you on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Alcohol abuse is due to many factors‚ including how you were raised‚ your social environment and your emotional health. American Indians and Native Alaskans are more likely to develop alcohol abuse‚ also people who have a family history of alcoholism or heavy drinkers are more likely to develop some sort of drinking problem. People who suffer from mental health problems such as anxiety‚ depression

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    Teenage Drug Abuse

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    Teenage Drug Abuse Drug abuse is not a new case anymore‚ since it has existed for a long time. It has been discovered that most people who struggle with drug addiction began experimenting with drugs in their teens. There are many different factors in our society that have contributed to the support of drugs. One such reason is that teens may feel pressured by their friends to try drugs; they may have easy access to drugs; they may use drugs to rebel against their

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    Causes of Drug Abuse

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    The Causes of Drug Abuse Among Teenagers Drug abuse among teenagers continues to be a major problem in many societies all over the world. Everybody knows bad things can happen to drug users. Instances of school dropouts‚ addiction‚ and teen violence continue to highlight the depth of the drug problem amongst teenagers. They can have serious or even fatal health problems. They can ruin their personal‚ social and professional lives. They may even end up in jail. But why do young people start

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    Prescription Drug Abuse

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    Prescription drug abuse has become an epidemic in the United States especially among the youth of our country. The Partnership for a Drug Free America says that 2‚500 teens a day abuse prescription drugs. Abuse of these narcotics can lead to serious mental and physical consequences. Why is this such a problem‚ what can we do to solve it‚ and how is it affecting our social lives? First we must explore what prescription drugs are being abused. The most popular abused drugs fall into three categories

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    Uses and abuse of drugs

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    37‚000 people died from drug related overdoses.” Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs. Substance abuse is a growing problem that not only affects the person who is abusing alcohol or drugs but also affects the lives of those who are close to the abuser. Substance abuse is the abuse of any substance. A drug is a substance that modifies one or more of the body’s functions when it is consumed. It is often mistakenly assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles

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    Drugs have been around for thousands of years. "A drug is any chemical that produces a therapeutic or non-therapeutic effect in the body (Drugs and Teen Substance Abuse 2000.)" Most drugs were first used for medicinal purposes‚ such as marijuana. Active substances were not extracted into drugs until the 19th century. Newly discovered substances like morphine‚ laudanum‚ and cocaine were completely unregulated and prescribed freely by physicians for a wide variety of ailments. Wounded veterans returned

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    Teen Drug Abuse

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    least one drug (including alcohol). It’s hard to say why teenagers try drugs. Sometimes they don’t even know why they do it. If a person asked ten teenagers at a party why they were getting high‚ that person would probably get ten different explanations. A lot of the time teenagers don’t even recognize the paths that led them to drug abuse. Drug abuse is usually the result of a problem‚ an outside influence‚ or the combination of these. There are many reasons why teenagers decide to use drugs‚ but there

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