The audience I will be addressing is parents‚ caregivers and school educators about the dangers of prescription drugs and how we can better educate teenagers and young adults on the dangers of abusing them. There are many ways that we can teach and educate our teenagers and young adults‚ but it’s important that families‚ schools and communities are involved. The rate of prescription drug overdose among teenagers and young adults have sky rocketed over the past several years. This has become a growing
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-Drug Laws of The Netherlands Is a Permissive Legal System Better than a Restrictive One in the Case of Drugs? Introduction The Netherlands is one of the most highly developed countries in the world. It is an international‚ well-integrated country with policies that are among the world ’s most liberal. In fact‚ The Netherlands has perhaps the most liberal view on drug use than any other country and has even gone to the extreme of extraordinarily relaxing its laws regarding soft ’
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Alex Bass Mrs. Baird English 11B‚ Period 3 04 June 2012 Drugs and the Music Industry Throughout the years‚ drugs and music have been as synonymous as America and baseball. Especially within the past 50 years‚ this nation has experienced the birth‚ and death‚ of many genres of music due to rampant drug use. Sure‚ we all know that drugs are bad for you and that if you abuse them‚ they will eventually lead to your death‚ but these substances have created music that has inspired millions around the
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Prescription drug overdose and abuse is a common problem faced by many individuals today. According to the CDC (2013)‚ prescription drug overdose and abuse has increased exponentially since the 1980s. In 2009‚ the prescription drug overdose was five times that in 1980. Deaths due to drug overdose exceeded those due to motor vehicle accidents for the first time in 2009. The majority of these deaths were attributable to opioid overdose. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ approximately
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Marijuana.Cocaine. Ephedrine. These are some of the commonly abused drugs in the Philippines. Recently‚ the drug problem is quite alarming.The increasing number of arrested drug traffickers‚ seizures of big volumes of dangerous drugs‚ controlled precursors and essential chemicals and dismantling of clandestine laboratories since the conception of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency show the extent and impact of the drug abuse and drug trade problem in the Philippines. The illegal trade of methamphetamine
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The Homeless Turning for Drugs Studies have shown that homeless youth on the streets suffer from drug addiction. The article Giving up on drugs: homeless younge people and self reported problematic drug use by Keys‚ Mallet‚ and Rosenthal‚ identifies the different issues homeless youth have to deal with. The research has been conducted through a series of interviews with young homeless kids from the age of 12 to 19. The kids interviewed talk about why they got into drugs‚ how they ended up living
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As I’m sure you know‚ drug abuse has been a big problem in the United States for many years. There are more and more people being taken to jail daily for having possession of illegal substances. Because so many of these people are being held in jail for such a small crime‚ people who are committing much worse crimes‚ like putting other people in danger‚ are getting away with shorter and less severe punishment. We are running out of room for the people who need to be in prison by filing them up with
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Adolescent Treatment Programs for Drug Addiction Adolescent Drug Treatment Programs for Addiction will differ from state to state and even from locale to locale‚ focusing on the drug problems manifesting themselves in that area at any one time. One would think that drug abuse among teens would be mostly uniform nationwide. It isn’t. Drug treatment programs must adjust their programs to address their local challenges Because of this; adolescent drug treatment programs are some of the most
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Judging Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs Most people know steroids are wrong because of the negative side effects‚ but what about a drug that could improve a person’s attention? It’s not clear whether healthy individuals should or should not use medication or drugs to improve cognitive abilities such as working memory or attention. At their genesis‚ cognitive-enhancing drugs such as Provigil or Ritalin were developed to aid patients suffering from narcolepsy‚ Alzheimer’s disease or ADHD with their cognitive
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False Positive Drug Tests When an employee tests positive for a drug they did not take‚ it is referred to as a false-positive. The scientific method for testing employee’s drug consumption is not completely fool-proof‚ and it is actually quite faulty. Often times‚ drug tests detect certain foods and medicines as drugs. The most commonly used test for drugs is a urine test. These tests were simple and cheaper than others however
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