Alcohol Abuse By: Rian Geraldine S. Alberto Alcohol • • • • Alcohol is a drink containing ethanol It is a lipid that is highly water soluble A psychoactive drug that has a depressant effect. Distribution: Ethanol is distributed equally in all body tissue according to water content. • Metabolism: A healthy body can metabolize 15ml of alcohol/hour • Alcohol is metabolized by the liver but 10% is excreted unchanged in the breath‚ sweat and the urine Metabolism of alcohol Alcohol Aldehyde
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June 26 is celebrated as International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking every year. It is an exercise undertaken by the world community to sensitize the people in general and the youth in particular‚ to the menace of drugs. The picture is grim if the world statistics on the drugs scenario is taken into account. With a turnover of around $500 billions‚ it is the third largest business in the world‚ next to petroleum and arms trade. About 190 million people all over the world consume
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Hezeng Wang Social Problems Discussion 1 Oct 3rd 2013 Drug Abuse In nowadays‚ drugs become more and more familiar to people. In fact‚ drugs actually are good to human beings. They can be used to help and lessen pain. However‚ drugs abuse has become an important social problem. According to the textbook‚ there are so many drugs in the United States‚ such as marijuana‚ cocaine‚ nicotine‚ heroin‚ alcohol‚ and so forth. According to a survey‚ more than 12.8 million Americans‚ about six
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Animal Cruelty Animal cruelty is any form of strong physical contact or verbal abuse which hurts the animals also in the environment in which an animal lives. Animal cruelty is also known as animal abuse. Animals should be treated like humans‚ they also have emotions. Animals feel the pain and fear like humans do‚ but they are helpless victims. Animal abuse causes so much loneliness‚ suffering‚ and pain in these innocent animals. It can also cause an animal to become aggressive‚ timid‚ or even
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(2013). Student-to-Student Abuse in the Indian Residential Schools in Canada: Setting the Stage for Further Understanding. Child & Youth Services‚ 34(4)‚ 343-359. DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2013.859903. Charles and DeGagné‚ a professor of social work at the University of British Columbia and executive director of Aboriginal Healing Foundation‚ respectively‚ argue that residential school survivors often talk about the abuse they receive from authorities such as priests or nuns
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Drug abuse has become a major social problem in many parts of the world. Discuss the consequences of drug abuse and ways to deal with the problem. Nowadays‚ we are all becoming aware of the fact that the number of drug users is increasing year by year. Most people‚ especially young generation try the drug to follow the example of their friends and unnoticeably they become victim of it. I would discuss the consequences of drug abuse and ways to deal with the problem. The consequences connected
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The use of and abuse of illegal and prescription drugs are a health‚ social‚ and law enforcement problem that is affecting Americans across the country. Drug abuse is destroying the lives of many teens and adults and is also destroying families in the United States. The use of drugs is a major problem in the United States among all Americans‚ but drug addiction is the main cause for America ’s troubled teens today. Exactly what is a drug? A drug is any chemical that produces a therapeutic or non-therapeutic
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work productivity is shortchanged when all alcoholics are considered. Yet according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)‚ some studies of primary care practices have shown that alcoholics receive an assessment by a medical professional and a referral to treatment only about 10 percent of the time.According to a study released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2004‚ in considering the state averages of the percentages of people with alcohol
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The Abuse of Alcohol Christine Townsend University Of Pheoniox Author Note This essay is being submitted on October 21‚ 2012‚ for Karen Spears Reading and Writing Strategies course. The Abuse of Alcohol A large part of the population in the United States abuse or used to abuse alcohol. The health and social problems are enormous‚ leading to an increase in unemployment‚ homelessness and even death. Alcoholism can cause a lonely and poor life style. Many people use certain excuses to drink
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Types of abuse... Physical – Punching‚ Kicking‚ Scratching‚ slapping‚ biting‚ scalding‚ hair pulling‚ poking‚ pushing‚ pinching‚ burning‚ shoving‚ tripping over‚ binding limbs‚ choking‚ beating‚ cutting‚ starvation‚ imprisonment‚ force feeding‚ deliberate dehydration‚ twisting arms‚ sleep deprivation‚ torture‚ drowning‚ bruising‚ Signs or Symptoms:-Injuries that have not received medical attention‚ frequent or regular falls and injuries‚ “pepper-pot bruising” finger-marks‚ bruising in areas not
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