ASM 1: Recognise indications of substance misuse and refer to specialists 1.1 – Substance abuse covers misuse of a range of mind altering substances. It can have a severe impact on your functioning as well as your physical health. Substance abuse or misuse is defined as the continued misuse of any mind-altering substance that severely affects person’s physical and mental health‚ social situation and responsibilities. Alcohol dependence is the most common form of substance misuse‚ but any drug
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Impact of Illegal Drug use Among Teens Sandra Rocker ENG 122 Instructor Tamara Dorris January 24‚ 2011 Reducing Drug Trafficking in the United States Impact of Illegal Drug use Among Teens For over one hundred years‚ the United States has been dealing with the use and abuse of illegal drugs. The federal government has spent billions of dollars since 1906 trying to stop the production‚ distribution‚ possession and use of drugs. The war on drugs has been long and costly with
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CPY 303 ADDICTIVE DISORDERS INTRODUCTION Disorder refers to an abnormal state of the body or mind in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning‚ or a deviation from the normal structure or functioning of any part or organ‚ as manifested by a characteristic set of symptoms and signs whose prognosis and pathology may be known or unknown. These characteristic symptoms frequently disorganize the individual and may cause physical and psychological distress and pain. Addiction refers to a
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The Great Legalization Debate and the Repercussions of Past Policies: A Review of the Current Literature James Falconi Abstract This review sifts through the current literature on the popular and controversial topic of how the United States should deal with controlled substances. There is as great
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Executive Summary Now a day’s drug addiction has become a great problem in all over the world. Third world countries like Bangladesh are greatly sufferer from this problem. It’s just like cancer. As a part of the society different Universities are facing this problem. Our university ‘University of Asia Pacific’‚ specifically our department ‘Department of Business Administration’ is facing greatly by this problem. Recently it has become the top concern issue for the disciplinary committee. Considering
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semi-structured questionnaire from 299 IDU from two district of Bac Ninh in North Vietnam in 2003. Study 2 examines the range of HCV services that treatment programs provide to their HCV positive clients using data collected from 233 drug free and methadone maintenance treatment programs (MMTPS) throughout the united state. Although findings indicated that MMTPS offer more HCV services to more of their HCV positive clients than drug free programs‚ but drug free programs provided more individualized
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we see in our families and social life. Methamphetamines are classified by several different types and classifications. Some of these classifications that I found in the Encyclopedia from Yahoo education website are‚ amphetamine (Benzedrine) ‚ methadone (dextroamphetamine) ‚ ice‚ methamphetamine (Desoxyn)‚ ("Methamphetamines") The medical use of this drug is very limited and is always prescribed at a lower dose‚ and never has any refills available. Methamphetamine is classified as a Schedule II
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Outline and discuss your understanding of the Minnesota Model as a response to problem drug use. Student No: 109495185. Introduction Addiction is a chronic disease‚ and can be progressive‚ relapsing and fatal (Heyman‚ 2009). There are many models of addiction theories. The disease model‚ which sees addiction as a medical condition along the same lines of diabetes and arthritis‚ is the most widely known in the public due to its depiction in media and film as a result of the popularity of Alcoholics
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1. Explain the terms social drugs and medicines. People take social drugs to help them relax or occasionally give themselves the feeling of having more energy (BBC 2013). Social drugs are also known as recreational or non medicinal drugs. These types of drugs are used for recreational purposes and without medical justification. There are two types of social drugs‚ illegal and socially acceptable drugs. Illegal social drugs include heroin‚ cocaine‚ cannabis and LSD. Examples of socially acceptable
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needs to be examined is what substance abuse is. According to Kroll (2003)‚ substance abuse can take many forms such as alcohol‚ drugs and polydrugs that lead to psychological‚ social and physical harm. Substances that fit in this category include: methadone‚ heroine‚ cocaine‚ crack‚ cannabis‚ ecstasy‚ and others. Child maltreatment is defined as abuse‚ neglect and acts of omission which place the children at risk for harm (Kroll‚ 2003). According to Wolfe (1999)‚ there are four types of child abuse
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