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 that you or someone you love is addicted to prescription drugs?
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Abusing Prescription Drugs the Wrong Way to Success Our American culture sets a big emphasis on education‚ high GPAs‚ and outstanding business performance in the professional environment. In order to excel‚ there is so much pressure and expectation that college students today are more vulnerable to experiment and get hooked on smart drugs like Adderall‚ Ritalin‚ and Modafilin. College students are not taking these drugs to get high but to increase their concentration‚ energy‚ and time for studying
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Prescription drugs are one of the most commonly used methods of curing illness‚ and fighting diseases‚ however they have many negative side effects such as addiction and abuse as seen in today’s society and in Brave New World. One in every four people in America abuse prescription drugs. There are many diseases people could die from if not for prescription drugs. Prescription drugs also tranquilize many illnesses or harmful body conditions allowing for a sort of numbness or ease to the human body
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The annual number of prescription painkiller overdose deaths have increased five hundred percent since 1990; but who is there to blame for this drastic increase in numbers? Doctors should be held responsible for the abuse of prescription drugs among people. At first‚ it seemed that doctors were not taking pain serious enough and they were failing to prescribe the right doses of painkillers to their patients. Sadly‚ this could have possibly started an epidemic of doctors prescribing too much medication
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Identify legislation that governs the use of medication in social care settings | | Ans: The legislations that govern the use of medication in social care settings are as follow: 1) The Medicines Act 1968‚ 2) The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (and later amendments)‚ 3) The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973 (and later amendments)‚ 4) The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974)‚ 5) COSHH‚ 6) The Mental Capacity Act (2005) 7) The Access to health records Act (1990)‚ 8) The Data Protection
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warnings; unfortunately‚ many people find out the hard way after using products such as vehicles‚ machinery‚ cleaning solutions‚ or drugs. Generally‚ no one truly sees the dangers or risk of these items until someone dies or is severely injured due to a defect or lack of warning labels. Nevertheless‚ putting regulations on things such as cigarettes‚ handguns‚ and prescription drugs would not solve anything because people would just find other ways around
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Americans spend billions of dollars on prescription drugs every year. Tiny amounts of pharmaceuticals including antibiotics‚ hormones‚ mood stabilizers‚ and other drugs are in our drinking water supplies‚ in soils‚ surface waters and groundwaters. People have been flushing down unwanted medicines in the toilet for a long time and this is affecting the rivers and even the water that we drink. After being taken these medicines are eventually eliminated from the body and flushed into the water supply
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Groundwater Use and Overuse The biggest reservoir of fresh‚ liquid water on earth is groundwater. There is more than 20 times as much water stored within the ground as in all the lakes and rivers combined. In many parts of the world‚ agricultural‚ industrial‚ and domestic water demands can only be met by pumping water out of the ground. As you’ll see in the diagram below‚ wells work only if they penetrate the water table - the name given to the subsurface boundary that separates saturated and
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The Pervasive State of Mental Illness and the Over Medication of Prescription Drugs in Children & Adolescents Abstract This study examines the pervasive state of mental illness and the overmedication of prescription drugs on children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 18 years of age‚ here in America. It has been predicted that the lack of studies on the medicated child has not been able to determine the overall long term effects that it might have on the participants involved.
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Reform Project Prescription drugs are one of the main increasing costs in health care. It has an impact on the population that could not afford prescription drugs‚ including brand name. The use of generic and OTC (over-the-counter) drugs gave the underprivileged groups in America a better chance for purchase. People believe that the generic form of the drugs do not have the same effect that brand name drugs do. It is a concern that prescription drug addictions rise in the elderly and the younger
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