Informative Speech – Topical Orientation General purpose: Addiction to prescription drugs Specific purpose: To inform my audience about the growing problem of prescription drug abuse‚ some common drugs that cause abuse‚ and their effects and some common treatments. Pattern: People living in today’s society must be aware about the dangers that prescription Drugs can cause them‚ as well as the people around them. Introduction: * Attention : Is it possible
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Drug Court Treatment 1 DRUG COURT TREATMENT AND SUCCESS Enhancing Drug Court Success and the Logic of Coerced Treatment Amanda M. Welker Idaho State University Drug Court Treatment 2 DRUG COURT TREAMENT AND SUCCESS This paper is about two articles on Drug Court. The first one is‚ “Drug Courts and the Logic of Coerced Treatment.” And the second one is‚ “Enhancing Drug Court Success.” Both of these article look at the different types of treatment that Drug Court
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Variations in drug response Certain factors such as age‚ weight‚ gender‚ alcohol use‚ metabolic state‚ distribution of water and fat‚ and diet tend to determine how a drug administered orally responds to within the patient’s body. These factors form the basis of variations in drug response (Kisch‚ 2008). Age is one factor the will determined how the town patients will metabolize the same drug administered to them. Mr. Smith is 65 years old while Ms. Jones is 30 years old‚ a condition which makes
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neurotransmitters in formation of drug addiction. As we can see from the video assigned to us this week‚ dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a role in the brain’s response to the presence of drug abuse. Dopamine is responsible for movement‚ regulation of heart rate‚ motivation and how a person perceives an experience either being painful or pleasurable. Pain causes for dopamine levels to drop whereas pleasurable responses increase dopamine levels. All drugs that become addictive and make a person
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issue of drug addiction has been scorching the nation for years. It is a serious issue that users and even friends of users may be aware of but do not take seriously. Thousands of people die every year from drug addiction and some don’t even get a chance to get help. In a society where many teenagers are carelessly smoking marijuana by choice and then moving on to more “hardcore” drugs‚ the brewing questions become: Because it was their choice to start‚ should we care about their addiction? Should
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Federal Court Decisions Mandatory Suspicionless Testing of Student Athletes Ruled Constitutional The legal foundation for suspicionless student drug testing rests upon Vernonia v. Acton (1995). In that landmark decision‚ the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a school policy requiring student athletes to pass random urinalysis tests as a ground for participation in interscholastic sports. The Court rejected a Fourth Amendment claim asserting that such tests are an unconstitutional invasion
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The type of court I focused on is the juvenile drug court. The goal of this court is to reach out to youth who are between ages of 13 to 17. These age gap is considered the more critical age of youth to abuse drugs moreover‚ another goal is to provide excellent treatments for the juveniles to shift their behavior within the multiple drug abuse they committed. Individuals need to have a positive behavior in order to be accepted to participate. Positive behavior continue a great treatment and a program
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I think that drug assisted intubation should be kept in the field only if the medics are properly trained. RSI is important to being able to keep an open airway in patients who are at a severe risk of pulmonary aspiration such as patients having an allergic reaction‚ severe burns‚ and etc. This is why it is a hard question to be able to definitively answer either “yes” or “no” to. In my opinion‚ drug assisted intubation in the field should be only in severe cases. When you paralyze a patient‚ you
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Males and females young adults leaving residential drug treatment Ages 17-25 Process characterizes In the Forming the groups we started counting off 1 thought 4. After we counted off we was directed to team up with our numbers. We formed our groups receiving our topic “Males and Females young adults leaving residential drug treatment”. I would say personal relations was characterized by dependence of what we already knew and if we had any experiences working with this group type before.
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Mary Debruyckere September 10‚ 2012 English 090-08H Nancy Stohlman Expository Writing-Final Draft How I Overcame My Drug Addiction I’d like to begin by stating a simple fact about overcoming drug addiction. When you’re struggling with drug addiction‚ sobriety can seem like an impossible goal. The road to recovery doesn’t have an Atlas to follow. What works for one person‚ may not be feasible for another. I’d like to think of my process as
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