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    Prenatal Drug Abuse

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    Prenatal drug abuse is a very tragic‚ yet preventable issue in our society. For a pregnant woman‚ drug abuse is doubly dangerous. Drugs may harm her own health‚ interfering with her ability to support the pregnancy. Also‚ some drugs can directly impair prenatal development. All illegal drugs‚ such as heroin and cocaine‚ pose dangers to a pregnant woman. Legal substances‚ such as alcohol and tobacco‚ are also dangerous‚ and even medical drugs‚ both prescription and over-the-counter‚ can be harmful

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    Drug Abuse in Malaysia

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    Anti Drug Groups Throughout history‚ America has been fighting against drug and alcohol abuse in teens and adults. Many ways companies and anti drug groups try to prevent drug and alcohol abuse is through education in school systems and out of school systems. They teach young students about drugs and alcohol before they risk being around them‚ and they teach older students about drugs while they are around in their daily lives. Are these education programs really necessary? That’s the question many

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    Youth Drug Abuse

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    Youth Drug Abuse Profile Drug addiction is a complex but treatable disease. It is characterized by compulsive drug craving‚ seeking‚ and use that persist even in the face of severe adverse consequences. For many people‚ drug abuse becomes chronic‚ with relapses possible even after long periods of abstinence. In fact‚ relapse to drug abuse occurs at rates similar to those for other well-characterized‚ chronic medical illnesses such as diabetes‚ hypertension‚ and asthma. As a chronic‚ recurring

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    B02 The abuse of alcohol is a problem in our society; a social disorder that causes physical and emotional injuries to people and family life. Alcohol is the oldest drug around. It is also the most widely-used and almost 50 percent of people aged 12 and over have consumed alcohol in the United States. Most people are able to consume alcohol responsibly. However‚ for one reason or another‚ some people abuse alcohol and develop addictions.  Alcohol can destroy persons who depend on its effects to solve

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    Alcohol Abuse Essay 17

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    Alcohol Abuse Drinking alcohol is woven into the social fabric of our culture‚ and indeed many people enjoy the social and cultural connection of sharing a drink together. However‚ because drinking is so common in our society‚ realizing you or a loved one has a drinking problem can be a challenge.  The consequences of alcohol abuse are serious. Alcohol abuse causes extensive damage to your health‚ your loved ones‚ and society. It results in thousands of innocent deaths each year‚ and exacerbates

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    Issues with Teenagers and Alcohol Abuse People have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years‚ and attitudes about alcohol have fluctuated greatly over the centuries. It has gone from being an accepted form of relaxation to being a tool of the devil and recently it has risen to the number one drug of choice among North American teenagers. Alcohol is classified as a drug because of its effects on the body. It is not digested like a food; instead it is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and

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    Teen Drug Abuse

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    least one drug (including alcohol). It’s hard to say why teenagers try drugs. Sometimes they don’t even know why they do it. If a person asked ten teenagers at a party why they were getting high‚ that person would probably get ten different explanations. A lot of the time teenagers don’t even recognize the paths that led them to drug abuse. Drug abuse is usually the result of a problem‚ an outside influence‚ or the combination of these. There are many reasons why teenagers decide to use drugs‚ but there

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    Drug Abuse Prevention

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    The term drug abuse most often refers to the use of a drug with such frequency that it causes physical or mental harm to the user or impairs social functioning. Although the term seems to imply that users abuse the drugs they take‚ in fact‚ it is themselves or others they abuse by using drugs. Traditionally‚ the term drug abuse referred to the use of any drug prohibited by law‚ regardless of whether it was actually harmful or not. This meant that any use of marijuana‚ for example‚ even if it occurred

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    Prescription Drug Abuse

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    Prescription and Drug Abuse I am introducing an Ethical dilemma of “Prescription and Drug Abuse.” This topic will be very beneficial to me. Since I am in the process of majoring in Pharmaceuticals‚ it will relate to any future encounters of drug abuse in work areas‚ at home‚ or even in the hospital. Prescription abuse is uneasy encounter that needs crucial attention to be controlled as much as possible. Prescription drugs will always have an abuser. There will be people that approach the situation

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    Adolescent Drug Abuse

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    Adolescent Drug Abuse I.) Introduction: "Crack‚ booze‚ pot‚ crystal- from the inner city to the suburbs to small towns‚ the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When ’a little harmless experimentation ’ becomes addiction‚ parents‚ teachers‚ and clinicians are often at a loss. For this age group (roughly ages 13 to 23)‚ traditional substance abuse programs simply are not enough" (Nowinski‚ inside cover). Today ’s society provides many challenges for adolescents that our

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