Outline: Drug Addiction I. Introduction (Provide a full sentence); Include your thesis here‚ underlined. II. The negative consequences of drug abuse affect not only individuals who abuse drugs‚ but also their families and friends‚ businesses‚ and government resources. A. How do drugs affect family and friends? 1. Children of individuals who abuse drugs are often abused or neglected. 2. Family members and friends are often torn apart by watching their
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significantly reduced. People constantly recognize the latent functions of the drug that is design to help them‚ and use the drugs as ploys in order to make extra money or experience some type of high. Substances that have alternative uses should be tracked or carefully watched in order to confirm that the potent drug is being used as it originally designed. Individual states have limitations and different laws concerning drugs‚ which increases the difficulty in ceasing the product of its secondary use
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The annual number of prescription painkiller overdose deaths have increased five hundred percent since 1990; but who is there to blame for this drastic increase in numbers? Doctors should be held responsible for the abuse of prescription drugs among people. At first‚ it seemed that doctors were not taking pain serious enough and they were failing to prescribe the right doses of painkillers to their patients. Sadly‚ this could have possibly started an epidemic of doctors prescribing too much medication
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How to Beat Drug Addiction • Decide that you do really want to stop using drugs. Unless you have the desire to change you will never be able to. • Be completely honest with yourself and others. Your chances of recovery are not good if you cannot face yourself and deal with confrontations from others. • Join a website like Recovery Social network www.recoverysocialnet.com This website has a lot of supportive people that are also in recovery and really want to help you stay clean. There is also
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Persuasive speech outline purpose: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross. Introduction: 1. Did you know that blood donated to the American Red Cross saves XXX lives per year? 2. People should give blood because it is easy and though there might be a little pain involved it is worth it because it saves so many lives and you get great snacks. Body: I. Giving blood is easy a. It only takes about an hour b. You just lay back and let the nurses do the work c. It
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this because he felt it would make Sam stronger for the times his peers would bully him throughout school. Dark presented aspects that occur daily within the world. Sex‚ drugs and money seem to be things the majority of humans strive for. Just as any other human‚ Sam‚ was trapped into the fabulous lifestyle associated with sex‚ drugs and money. Sam was a troubled child from the bullying and abusing language his father forced upon him while growing up. He was not allowed to be happy. His father did not
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controversial problem can only be described as the cost of prescription medication. Currently‚ Americans pay on average $858 annually for prescription medication which is more than 17% percent of total healthcare expenses (Thompson 1). That figure is more than double the average prescription cost across 19 other industrialized countries (Thompson 1). These alarming numbers will also not stop growing‚ “four of the top ten prescription drugs in the United States have increased in price be more than
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Prescription drugs are one of the most commonly used methods of curing illness‚ and fighting diseases‚ however they have many negative side effects such as addiction and abuse as seen in today’s society and in Brave New World. One in every four people in America abuse prescription drugs. There are many diseases people could die from if not for prescription drugs. Prescription drugs also tranquilize many illnesses or harmful body conditions allowing for a sort of numbness or ease to the human body
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Abusing Prescription Drugs the Wrong Way to Success Our American culture sets a big emphasis on education‚ high GPAs‚ and outstanding business performance in the professional environment. In order to excel‚ there is so much pressure and expectation that college students today are more vulnerable to experiment and get hooked on smart drugs like Adderall‚ Ritalin‚ and Modafilin. College students are not taking these drugs to get high but to increase their concentration‚ energy‚ and time for studying
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John Doe COMM 120 January 1‚ 2013 A Persuasive Speech Outline (Monroe’s Motivated Sequence) I. II. Introduction – Getting Attention: Has anyone here been to a national forest? Well if you have then you’ve must seen a variety of the different wildlife and plants that live there. A. Problem Thesis Statement: I believe there is a problem with deforestation. B. Overview: Today I will discuss how many trees forests lose a year‚ the causes and effects of deforestation‚ and how it affects
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