Period: 3 Date: 2/4/14 Why We Should Not Do Drugs? Thousands of young men have wasted their lives because of illegal drugs in the world. They were mostly victims of a bad influence‚ a broken-home family‚ of ignorance‚ or curiosity. The key reasons why people shouldn’t do drugs are that drugs are bad for your body‚ they ruin your life‚ and they cause addiction. First‚ drugs affect your body in many permanent ways like brain damage‚ heart problems‚ and hallucinations. Brain damage can affect
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1.0 Topic and Chosen aspect Drug abuse among teenagers is the chosen aspect for this report. Drug abuse is defined as the excessive use of drugs without medicine justification. It is reported that 50% of teenagers have abused a drug of some kind (Teendrugrehabs n.d.). 1.1 Critical evaluation of findings One of the main factors of drug abuse among teenagers is due to peer pressure. Based on statistics 80% of teenagers are affected by peer pressure (Wallace 2011). Wanting to be accepted by their
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health problems. (Credibility & Relevancy) Nobody wants to die because of polluted air‚ and this wish is shared by most human beings. (Thesis & Preview) It is not just humans who are adversely affected by air pollution but also plants‚ living organisms‚ and the natural environment. Something must be done to decrease and potentially prevent air pollution from harming mankind and the other living organisms on Earth. Body- I. Problem: Air pollution is a significant cause of health problems and eventual
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INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study A prescription drug is a medication that can be purchased or given out only with written instructions from a licensed healthcare provider‚ such as a doctor‚ dentist‚ nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant‚ to a pharmacist. These written instructions are known as a prescription. However‚ prescription drugs can also cause bad effects by abusing it; for example‚ by taking a friend’s or relative’s prescription to get high‚ to treat pain‚ or because you think
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Castrence Substance Abuse Education Drug is an element that could possibly change the physical‚ psychological‚ emotional and behaviour of a human being. It is only used when it is prescribed by the doctor‚ because if drugs are misuse by the user‚ their individual’s physical‚ emotional or behavioural condition might distorted. The reasons behind are peer pressure‚ curiosity‚ adventure‚ feel good‚ escape from reality and easy access of drugs. Several people who are using drug are stress or having
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Prescription drugs are too easy to get and are also addictive. I don’t do any drugs but I can easily access prescription drugs. Prescription drugs are everywhere. One of the main reasons young people abuse prescription drugs is because they are cheap. Individuals my age don’t have an excess of money‚ so prescriptions drugs are the answer if an individual wants to get high. In high school‚ most of the abused drugs are marijuana‚ painkillers‚ and depressants such as OxyContin and Xanax.
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“Drug addiction cannot be cured if the fear of not consuming drugs is greater than the willpower to quit doing drugs.”- Dr T.P.Chia . Johan J. Goldstein can be compared to this quote by giving the drugs to the addicts because it is safer for society. His arguments show the Emotional‚ Ethical and Rational appeal in order to capture our attention. He starts off with an ethical engaging story about how the detectives caught forty nine men and forty three of them were narcotics addicts. It is plausible
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Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes Powerful Antipsychotics Used to Subdue Elderly; Huge Medicaid Expense By LUCETTE LAGNADO December 4‚ 2007; Page A1 In recent years‚ Medicaid has spent more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than on any other class of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics‚ AIDS drugs or medicine to treat highblood pressure. One reason: Nursing homes across the U.S. are giving these drugs to elderly patients to quiet symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and
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ERSTA SKÖNDAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE The Department of Social Work – Sköndalsinstitutet Bachelor Degree in Social Work – 160 credits Sköndal - Stockholm WHEN A CHILD LEAVES HOME FOR THE STREETS – from the family’s perspective Anna Jenemark Minor Thesis in Social Work‚ 10 credits T6Ä‚ 2006 Instructor: Johan Kejerfors Contact person: Elisabeth Håmsø Examiner: Bengt Börjeson ABSTRACT There are many theories to why street children leave their families to live on the street‚ but most
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So I’m going to talk about the other solution and it is mainly focus on what the government could do as prevention. Well‚ the government could provide more information about drug abuse through advertising‚ and they could also enforcing laws to minimise the problem of drug abuse. First of all‚ for advertising‚ the government could provide the information about drug abuse through advertising on TV and social networking website e.g. Facebook‚ twitter etc. For the contents of advertising‚ the government
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