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    Name: Patricia Franklin | Persuasive Essay: Outline Worksheet Review “How Do I Organize My Brainstorm into an Outline?” of “The Writing Process” Media piece. Assignment Directions: Outline your persuasive essay below by completing the following: 1) Use the feedback you received from your instructor to revise your thesis statement. Write your thesis as a complete sentence as you would in your essay. Record your thesis statement in the “Thesis Sentence” entry under the Introductory Paragraph

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    The Pervasive State of Mental Illness and the Over Medication of Prescription Drugs in Children & Adolescents Abstract This study examines the pervasive state of mental illness and the overmedication of prescription drugs on children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 18 years of age‚ here in America. It has been predicted that the lack of studies on the medicated child has not been able to determine the overall long term effects that it might have on the participants involved.

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    Teen Drug Abuse Teens are being affected by drugs every day. Teens see drugs no matter where they go. They see them in movies‚ ads on t.v. and on billboards‚ and on video games so there surrounded by them. 35.1% of 12th graders have admitted to smoking marijuana this past year. Seniors in highschool are smoking marijuana more than smoking a cigarette. It’s not only affecting seniors‚ kids in middle school are also using. Thats people my age using drugs. Marijuana isn’t the only drug that kids are

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    a days the society mainly the youth is getting addicted to drugs‚ alcohol‚ smoking and many more. Most of the teenagers even the school boys and girls are taking drugs. Some of them knowing and some without knowing the bad effects‚ they get into these habits. Effects of drugs: Although drug is used for medicine but the illicit use of it damages human body part.Some This is illegal to take such drugs like heroine‚ cocaine etc. Nicotine‚ the drug that makes tobacco addictive‚ goes to your brain

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    Stimulant‚ any of a group of drugs that excite the central nervous system‚ increase alertness‚ and alleviate fatigue. Caffeine is perhaps the most socially acceptable and commonly used stimulant. Other stimulants include cocaine and amphetamines‚ which create intense feelings of euphoria (well-being). Amphetamines‚ commonly known as pep pills or diet pills‚ also decrease appetite. Stimulants work by mimicking the fight-or-flight response‚ in which the hormone epinephrine (also known as adrenaline)

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    Contents Page Preface’ - 1 Drugs and Drug Related Problems Drug Laws 1. Alcohol 2 15 19 2. Solvents 3. Cannabis 4. Tobacco 5. Caffeine 25 29 34 38 41 6. Amphetamines 7. Cocaine 8. LSD 9. Magic Mushrooms 47 51 53 55 10. Sedatives and Minor Tranquillisers 11. Heroin and other Opiates 59 PREFACE This Third Edition is an extensive revision and updatin of the two earlier versions. New materiakinc~udes information on drugs such as Ice‚ Ecstasy and Buprenorphine

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    place in these urban communities are drug related. Even though drugs can be bought out of any community‚ the urban communities are the most effected by drug activities. Drugs are destroying the urban communities. Children can buy drugs off almost every street corner and most of the youth in the urban communities are or have been in jail for drug sales. {draw:frame} Crime rates have gone up in

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    excellent depiction of how artists often use drugs in order to enhance their musical genius. By ingesting a drug to alter their state of conscious‚ they allow the narcotic to create usually obscure connections in the brain to become prominent and overactive. The setting of the story takes place in Harlem‚ a neighborhood often associated with crime and drugs. However‚ it is also known to produce successful poets and musicians. The question is‚ could these factors be possibly related? Sonny‚ a boy described

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    Nicotine and Drugs Affects a Fetus Nicotine and drugs can affect a fetus by entering into the bloodstream of the unborn child. While you are pregnant‚ almost everything you eat‚ drink or smoke passes through your body to your baby. That is why drugs taken during pregnancy can be harmful to your baby. The word "drugs" doesn’t only mean illegal drugs. It also means legal drugs and prescription and over-the-counter medicines. The use of alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and other drugs during pregnancy continues

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    Heather Swenson Mandy Jesser English Composition I 1 May 2013 Effects of Parental Drug Abuse on Their Children As soon as birth‚ children are exposed to new things; new life experiences that will develop the path of which direction their life will take. Adolescence is the most important time in a child’s life because it is where they learn appropriate behavior from their family and the outside world. Some children are able to use these experiences to differentiate at an early age what is

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