script for a cold to make this DRUG go away? Meth has been a problem in the world for quite some time‚ since the 1970s. It started off as a trend with motorcycle gangs in the West and it soon spread throughout the U.S. to the common people. The meth epidemic in America has had a horrifying impact on families‚ individuals‚ communities‚ and various populations. There has been a rise in car theft and robbery crimes that meth users commit in order to obtain money to get another high. Meth does horrible things
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Mental illnesses among teenagers is far from a recent epidemic. There have been signs and records of suicidal behavior from teens going as far back as 1950’s. Since then the number of suicides per year has continually increased. In the year 1968 118 children aged 5-14 commit suicide in the U.S.‚ currently as of 2016 it is estimated that the annual number of teens/youths committing suicide each year between the ages of 10 and 24 is 4‚600. The amount of suicides per year has increased to occur 40 times
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The author of the editorial‚ “Doctors Will Play a Critical Role in the Opioid Epidemic‚” posted in the New York Times‚ claim that doctors will need to make safe and effective decisions for treatment of pain due to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealing the rise of opioid overdose deaths since 1999. The author states that there are many other alternatives that can be given to treat pain and doctors should be considering them before writing out prescriptions for opioids
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Shame‚ Guilt‚ and Narcissism: The Endless and Unforgivable Cycle Courtney Lynn Caron University of the Incarnate Word Author Note This paper was prepared for PSYC3351: Social Psychology‚ taught by Dr. Erin E. Martin at the University of the Incarnate Word‚ San Antonio‚ TX. Abstract Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a psychological disorder characterized by extreme selfishness‚ lack of empathy for others‚ elevated self-esteem‚ extensive manipulativeness‚ and a overly powerful
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1 Obesity/Overweight: Epidemic Crisis (1 of 6) Obesity over the last two decades has been a major health issues for Americans. Obesity‚ just recently was classified as a chronic disease condition by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC reports in 2010 that one-in-three adults (35.7%) and one-in-five (17%) American children are obese (CDC‚NCHS-2010-National Obesity Trends). The health effects of Obesity including being Overweight is a gateway trigger leading to a variety of
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Child Pornography- Becoming an Epidemic? The internet can be a useful tool when used for the right reasons‚ but what about the wrong reasons‚ such as child pornography? Child pornography is growing in astounding numbers‚ it is gaining more popularity every year and there is still not enough legislation to help slow it down. Society has become overly sexually stimulated‚ simple sexual pleasures are now not enough in many people’s minds‚ which may lead to harmful‚ unhealthy sexual desires
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What do you now know and understand about the historical events from your novel? A complex question because as well as the facts and the hard truths of the Yellow Fever epidemic‚ I also have learned to understand how to feel empathy and happiness for the people that had to go through the awful calamity of 1793. I have a deep respect for the people that were volunteers of the Free African Society because they were the real hero’s of the story. They were the people that did not flee when crisis arose
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after their financial foundation crumbles and they find their self on the street. It is troubling for most to envision being broke‚ jobless‚ and ultimately hopeless and therefore‚ the homeless issue is overlooked. Homelessness is a prevailing epidemic that is currently affecting more than 1.5 million Americans and over 100 million people worldwide. In today’s society it is evident that only people that have experience or have come close to experiencing the hardship of homelessness seem conscious
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Christine Rosen’s "Virtual Friendships and the New Narcissism" discusses how social networking gives people the power to portray themselves as they like‚ all while online connections are leading to dwindling human connections. Social media is like a self-portrait and users can portray themselves in any manner‚ Rosen says‚"...self-portraits can at once expose and obscure‚ clarify and distort." With the power to create their image‚ users of social networks become more involved online then offline and
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and the media is singing all its beauty and pain in various forms for all to see and with which to compete. But one must be careful to generalize narcissism as something to avoid -- An article written by Pat MacDonald entitled ’’Narcissism in the modern world’’ illustrates healthy and unhealthy narcissism. The author states that ’’healthy narcissism involves a steady sense of one’s worth‚ based on genuine achievement‚ the capacity to recover from disappointment or failure and the ability
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