ILLEGAL DRUGS are drugs which have controls on them by a government and are illegal in certain situations (a person is not allowed to have them). A drug is any chemical designed to affect the human body. A psychoactive drug is a drug that affects the brain. Some controlled drugs are allowed if you have permission from a doctor. Other drugs are illegal - meaning you are never allowed to have them. Individual countries and places have different laws about different drugs‚ and there are also international
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to become criminals in order to get their drug‚ being able to get drugs for which they ’re sure of the quality." Isn ’t it a gateway drug to harder substances? "The effect of criminalization is to drive people from mild drugs to strong drugs... Crack would never have existed in my opinion if you had not had drug prohibition. It was drug prohibition- why was crack created? Because cocaine was so expensive." [Cocaine was so expensive because of drug prohibition.] But what about the morality
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What is a drug? A drug may be defined as any substance other than food that by its chemical nature affects the structure and function of the living organism. Why do people use drugs? It has been shown that there are two main reasons why people use drugs. 1. Using drugs because it feels good and/or their friends are doing it 2. Using drugs because they are suffering from emotional or physical abuse‚ or because they suffer from mental disorders. When is it considered abuse? Medical and governmental
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Keisha Ellis Drug Abuse & Drug Addiction SOC 203 Social Problems Instructor Ely May 11‚ 2015 Numerous individuals do not comprehend why individuals get to be dependent on drugs or how drugs can change the mind to cultivate enthusiastic drug abuse. They erroneously view drug misuse and dependence as entirely a social issue and may describe the individuals who take drugs as ethically powerless (Alving‚ Matyas‚ Torres‚ Jalah‚ & Beck‚ 2014). One extremely regular belief is that drugs abusers
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Legislation exercise DATA Protection Act 1998 What is your responsibility under the above act as a care worker in relation to; Recording information – As a support practitioner all writing and recording must be written accurately‚ factually and must be relevant. All information and entries are to be dated and signed . All information and paperwork must be legible and there is to be no use of abbreviations or jargon. Storing information- It is the responsibility of every employee
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Today was my third week in Metro Hospital. I was assigned one patient to work on time management with my clinical instructor. The patient I worked had surgery because she had a periocciptal aneurysm that had not yet burst. She chose to have the surgery because she learned the risk of having an aneurysm. I have learned that first thing I need to do is to check to see if the patient is alive because it is my responsibility to care for the patient. But I read the doctor notes prior to understand the
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NURSING PROCESS TEACHING CARE PLAN SUPPORTIVE DATA ---------------------------- Subjective: Pt states “my pain is still at 8/10‚ is my medication working?” Objective: 1. DX-UTI & possible urosepsis‚ Hip Fracture and fall during not a candidate for surgery‚ CHF 2.Buck’s traction applied 3. Assessment: Limited mobility‚ SOB
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War on Drugs Jude Ocampo San Joaquin Delta College Sociology 1a Professor Medina Introduction The War on Drugs is a term that is used to refer to the federal government’s attempts to end the import‚ manufacture‚ sale‚ and use of illegal drugs. It is not a specific term only relating to a secret policy or objective‚ but to a series of antidrug initiatives that are directed towards the common goal of ending drug abuse. These initiatives include different
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Synthetic Drugs of Abuse It seems that primitive man at times wished to escape his reality. He or she probably found some natural herbal drugs to facilitate this desire. In fact abuse of the coca leaf and the opium poppy has been occurring the last 3000 years‚ and probably longer. The mescaline containing peyote cactus has been abused by the indians for even longer. They thought it was a gift from god because they often realised profound truths when they where inebriate(at least‚ thats what they
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Title: Drug Abuse Introduction: Man has always saught pleasure‚ abatement of anxiety‚ and other alterations in states of consciousness through the ingestion of various natural and chemical substances. In the last few years drug abuse has become serious problem resulting into considerable harm both to the individual and to the society. Drug abuse adversely affects the well being‚ the progress and the health of the user and also cause tragedy to the family life of these persons. Drugs are handled
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