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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Drug Abuse What are drugs? Drugs are substances which have a physiological impact when ingested or generally brought into the body. There are lots of ways people can use drugs. Drugs can be beneficial to the community and may also be the same drugs that are harmful to the community. Wine was utilized in any event from the time of the early Egyptians; from 4000 B.C.; and therapeutic utilization of weed has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. Not until the nineteenth century. A.D. was the dynamic substances
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Taylor traham Child Abuse Topic: Child Abuse is around the world‚ that ruins peoples life. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about Child Abuse. Thesis Statement: Being a victim of being abused from a friend. or a family member can change someone life forever. Therefore‚ today I will be informing my audience what child abuse means‚ what are some risk factors‚ and what are some effects. Introduction: I. I will play a video clip about a boy named Brenden
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"Child Abuse" Child abuse is a very serious and controversial issue that is escalating in today ’s society. As we look back to the 1940 ’s and 1950 ’s‚ it was almost unheard of to let anyone outside of your immediate family know anything about your personal life. Every family was thought to be‚ or shown to the general public to be‚ the "perfect family". Some schools had the authority to punish a child by either spanking them with a paddle or hitting their knuckles
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Child abuse and maltreatment is not limited to a particular age and can occur in the infant‚ toddler‚ preschool‚ and school-age years. Choose one of the four age groups (infant‚ toddler‚ preschool‚ or school age) and discuss the types of abuse that are most often seen in this age. Discuss warning signs and physical and emotional assessment findings the nurse may see that could indicate child abuse. Discuss cultural variations of health practices that can be misidentified as child abuse. Describe
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Childhood abuse is a major issue in the world today we all know or have heard of unfortunate events dealing with children. “Abuse changes your life…Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on Abuse!” (Patty Rase Hopson Adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse). I believe there are long term affects to child abuse and adults or parents should be sent to jail. Childhood abuse is positively related to adult depression‚ aggression‚ hostility‚ anger‚ fear‚ anxiety disorders
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Elder Abuse Jaleesa Nieves 4/12/2014 Elder abuse is the most common type of abuse that gets looked over. People normally do not suspect or even think an elderly person may be getting abused‚ but this is a serious topic in nursing homes and hospitals. Tens of thousands of the elderly are being abused in the United States. More than half a million reports of abuse against the elderly reach authorities every year‚ and millions more cases go unreported. The reason is as these seniors
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Child Abuse Research Paper Most parents and other caregivers do not intend to hurt their children‚ but abuse is defined by the effect on the child‚ not the motivation of the parents or caregiver.Tens of thousands of children each year are traumatized by physical‚ sexual‚ and emotional abusers or by caregivers who neglect them.Child abuse as common as it is shocking. Most of us can’t imagine what would make an adult use violence against a child‚ and the worse the behavior is‚ the more unimaginable
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Sabrina Minton Mrs. Laura Ahmed English 3A 10-25-10 Verbal Abuse The reason why I choose this topic is because I have been a victim of verbal abuse. Many people know or have heard of someone that has been verbally abused. Many people including myself be suffer in silence and feel isolated. Many parts of human action‚ include the mind and heart. “As he thinks within himself‚ so he is”. What does a person think in his or her mind‚ and heart will be reflected and his or her words or actions. In
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kicked because they didn’t put away all of thir toys‚ a child being told thay are the reason why the parenst got a divorce‚ these are all examples of child abuse. Child abuse affects thousands of children everyday. There are horrible effects of child abuse‚ meantally‚ physically‚ and sexually. The traumas brought into a child’s life because of the abuse are harsh and never ending. It’s a serious matter that many people sweep under the rug. Most people are nervous to jump to suach a hasty assupmtion
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