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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Drugs have been around since the beginning of time and in the past used for a variety of medical and even spiritual properties. Many individuals are able to use substances with no negative consequences‚ but for many it can lead to addiction. Addiction will lead the individuals to have to chronic‚ relapsing‚ and compulsive behavior despite the known negative side effects. There are many substances that can lead to addiction and these substances are broken down into categories (Capuzzi & Stauffer‚
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people‚ both children to adults‚ that have been impacted by drug and alcohol abuse‚ it also showed children who’ve been affected by violence and neglect. Both types of children have one thing in common‚ a high likelihood to repeat the mistakes of their parents. Whether they’ve grown up living with one or both parents‚ are adopted‚ or live in foster care they are at risk. Factors that impact a child’s life are whether their mother abused drugs or alcohol while pregnant‚ and if they’ve grown up in difficult
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Child Abuse Child abuse is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Children whose parents abuse them often turn to a life of crime‚ or suffer physical or mental scars. In severe cases the child may even die. In Saint Louis a boy was attacked by a pack of dogs‚ after he had finished playing basketball at the local court. If his mother had reported him missing he may have been found in time to rescue him‚ instead he bled to death under a tree(De Jong). Of course this is an extreme case of
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deal of people who are on legal drugs‚ using them illegally. The vast majority of people that are on it are our youth and teens. They are on everything from cannabis to opiates. Many of the teens that indulge in these drugs are mislead in believing that it is cool. There are a lot of drugs that people are indulging in‚ but the main focus is on prescription pills‚ MDMA‚ and Promethazine/Codeine. It was once said that cannabis is the gateway drug to every other drug. Not once has a person overdosed
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Child Abuse and Neglect Child abuse is any act that endangers a child’s physical or emotional health and development. Child abuse and neglect can take place anywhere. The child often knows the abuser well a parent‚ relative‚ babysitter‚ or friend of the family. Child abuse and neglect crosses all ethnic‚ racial‚ social‚ and economic lines This book talks and expresses the examinations of child neglect in families and its relevance to research‚ policy and practice in the field of services to children
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Substance Abuse And The Effects Of Substance Abuse Substance abuse is seen as maladaptive and not considered dependant but can lead to dependency with certain drugs. There is a huge range of drugs such as alcohol‚ cocaine‚ amphetamines‚ benzodiazepines and opiates. Some of these drugs are illegal in some countries and regions and can lead to criminal prosecution if caught in possession or under the influence of them. Public health practitioners have undertaken many studies into drug abuse from an
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A Drug Free country Major debate has been done about the legalization of drugs. People who are for the legalization of drugs believes that drug prices will fall‚ levels of drug-related crimes would decrease and as a result‚ have less crowded courts‚ and drug violence would reduce as well because cartels and mafias would no longer need to fight over drugs. The group that is against the legalization on drugs says that there would be new users‚ the new users would no longer keep track of their responsibilities
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modern war on drugs has been going on the America since the 1970s with the stated goal of creating a drug-free America. However in the span of 40 plus years dedicated to fighting a war of drug prohibition with $1.5 trillion dollars estimated to have been spent in the process the results are less than satisfactory. Regardless of the multiplying millions of dollars allocated to drug enforcement each year addiction rates in America have not fallen at all since the start of the modern drug war by President
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Villanueva 1 Recognizing and Responding to Child Abuse Nursing 32 – Pediatric Clinical Instructor Gwen Green-Brown Nursing Research Article Villanueva 2 Erika Villanueva February 17‚ 2008 Nursing 32 – Pediatrics Clinical Nursing Research Article Gwen Green-Brown Recognizing and Responding to Child Abuse Childhood abuse occurs nationwide among a variety of races and ethnicities. It affects several children
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