Illicit and Prescription Drug Abuse and How it Affects Families June 27‚ 2011 PSY/425 Instructor Barbara Nosal Drug abuse has affected many families and households. Some families have family members who are addicted to prescription drugs and other members of the family are not aware. Twenty percent of people in the United States have used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes (U.S. National Library of Medicine‚ n.d.). Prescription drug abuse is continuing to
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prescription medications quickly becoming the most abused drug throughout today’s youth. Dr. Nora D. Volkow‚ director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ estimates that forty eight million people misuse prescribed medicine. That is about twenty percent of the United States population (1). Maybe because these medications are fairly easy to posses‚ no matter of the age trying to acquire them. It is less expensive than street drugs such as ecstasy‚ marijuana‚ or cocaine. A thought of prescription
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Overview Prescription drug abuse and addiction is a growing problem in our society. In 2007 an estimated seven million Americans abused prescription drugs‚ and almost twenty-eight thousand people died as a result of accidental drug overdose. In the United States drug overdoses are the second leading cause of unintentional deaths (CDC‚ 2010). Medication prescribed by physicians killed more people in that same than illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine combined (Harvard‚ 2011). Many members
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Kremlis Lopez September 21‚ 2011 Speech Informative Speech Outline Drugs and Alcohol General Purpose: to inform Specific Purpose: to inform my audience about all the bad things it brings people. Thesis Statement: Drugs and alcohol play a huge role in a person’s life and it could destroy them. We all know that drinking and doing drugs is bad for your health. So why do we decide to do them? Some people say it’s because “peer pressure” others say to “feel good”
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of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes‚ use of these substances must be banned from competition because it damages the honesty of athletic competition‚ provides an unfair advantage to athletes who train clean‚ and can have numerous detrimental effects to the user. Ultimately‚ it is imperative that stricter limits are put on athletes which bans the use of performance enhancing substances by any athlete regardless of sport. The use of performance enhancing drugs is damaging the integrity
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today are using themselves as experimental laboratories for strange drug combinations that no scientist ever thought of‚” (Winters 62). Overall‚ today’s rate of drug abuse in teenagers has dropped‚ but the nonmedical use of prescription medication has drastically increased (Chapter 4). Kids around the world are turning away from street drugs‚ to abuse prescription medication that can be found right at home. Prescription drug abuse is using prescription medication prescribed by a doctor‚ for nonmedical
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people who despite using these drugs‚ in the future do not suffer any serious damage to their body so I do not see as bad to use them if the damages will not be so serious in the future. This would come to give you many benefits if used in the right way and so in the future have very minimal damages that you would not realize. This was the part for which I did not feel very convinced that this was something as bad as they said. They only say that if they use these drugs you can damage your health completely
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Conclusion on the three gateway drugs. Name all Three 1)Please include what type of Drug all three are? 2)Analyze and inform major components of the three drugs. 3)Please make sure you add or talk about any key vocab words that we discussed in class. 4) Lastly‚ report the short or long term effects of the three gateway drugs on the body. The three gateway drugs in order are tobacco‚ alcohol‚ and marijuana. They are in order of how most people are exposed to the drug. They all have negative effects
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Drug Addicted Mothers More than 1 million children are exposed to drugs or alcohol during pregnancy according to The National Institute on Drug Abuse. Each year about 221‚000 of the women who become pregnant consume illegal drugs and most of these children are born addicted to the drugs themselves. These mothers cannot give their children the proper care. Many drug-dependent parents abuse their children both mentally and physically. There is action that needs to be taken to prevent this on
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unique terrain‚ Alaska is a popular location for kayaking‚ mountain biking‚ skiing and other outdoor activities. Unfortunately‚ the state’s pristine terrain and far off location doesn’t make it immune to the drug‚ alcohol and mental problems that plague the rest of the nation. Alcohol & Drug Abuse in Alaska: According to Alaska’s criminal justice professionals‚ alcohol is the most often abused substance in the state. Alcohol often enters the state via U.S. Postal Service‚ snow machines‚ air carriers
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