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    Multidimensional framework should be applied to women which are incarcerated and pregnant by understanding their personal dimensions. In the video‚ each women had different stories of why they were in prison and how they had to deal with being pregnant in prison. For instance‚ some of the ladies had went to prison for selling drugs‚ burglary‚ and murder. The environment they were living causing them to do things that would put them in jail. Pregnancy can be an anxious experience for all women but it is worst

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    Children should not be prosecuted as adults. They haven’t been exposed to full consequences for their actions.They are not fully developed. Their behavior is influenced by the media. Children are not treated with an iron fist. They never truly experience a heavy punishment . For example‚ if a child were to miss multiple assignments they are not fired from school. If they don’t do their work they fail the course and are required to take it again. They are given second chances time and time again

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    Drug Use In Adolescents

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    Drug Use in Adolescents The reason one problem is not considered significant over another is distinguished between a personal or public issue and whether it threatens our social institutions. This is based on a question of which problems are serious enough to need sociological attention and has been difficult and controversial over years (Leon-Guerrero‚ 2011). The sociological perspective of examining social problems helps society to on what level a problem needs to be addressed. Being able

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    your partner has suffered a pulmonary embolism‚ a blood clot to the lungs. Despite the best efforts of the medical staff‚ it is confirmed that your partner will never regain consciousness. She is legally declared ‘brain-dead’. She is 14 weeks pregnant‚ making your choice about life support all the more difficult. Ultimately‚ taking into account previous discussions with your partner‚ you decide to suspend life-sustaining treatment‚ which is your right as next of kin. But the Government

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    Should athletes be given the choice to use performance-enhancing drugs? Yes Freedom of choice. If athletes wish to take drugs in search of improved performances‚ let them do so. They harm nobody but themselves and should be treated as adults‚ capable of making rational decisions upon the basis of widely-available information. Even if there are adverse health effects in the long-term‚ this is also true of both tobacco and boxing‚ which remain legal. Yes Already athletes use all sorts of

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    drug use to drug abuse

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    Drug Use to Drug Abuse Drug use becomes drug abuse in my opinion when it starts to effect any of the seven dimensions of wellness. The seven dimensions of wellness are emotional‚ intellectual‚ social‚ occupational‚ spiritual‚ environmental‚ and physical. Drugs effect emotional wellness by increasing your stress level creating the fight or flight response in the brain to react more. This can happen while you are under the influence of a drug and your stress level elevates due to worrying

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    Kif in the Rif: An examination of the illicit drug trade in Morocco Muslim North Africa Graham Mattison Research Paper 5/16/2008 The economic disparity between western Morocco’s upper class‚ urban elites‚ and eastern Morocco’s lower class‚ rural poor‚ has led to an increasingly problematic illicit drug trade over the last half century. Morocco’s schizophrenic personality is one that has been shaped by many internal and external influences. The vast majority of Morocco’s

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    years old‚ recruited to be soldiers‚ forced into marriage at young ages‚ or joined to escape their reality. What do you do when you are kidnapped and forced to fight a war you know nothing about? Should this child be prosecuted for crimes he or she committed during war times? Should child soldiers be prosecuted for war crimes? You are ten years old at school and war breaks out in your village like in the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. First the teacher evacuates the class kids running into

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    negative effects. Any drug that enters the mothers system‚ prescription or non-prescription‚ legal or illegal‚ are considered teratogenic (Johnson‚ Nusbaum‚ Bejarano‚ & Rosen‚ 1999) I believe that what the mother does before she is pregnant is her business. If a woman drinks‚ smokes‚ or does any other type of bodily harm to herself with substances‚ even though it is wrong‚ it is her body and she can do what she pleases with it. But when that same woman becomes pregnant‚ her focus should be that developing

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    Drug Use and Delinquency

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    There is an evident link between juvenile drug use and delinquency. A 2008 study explored the connection between delinquency and the use of nonmedical prescription drugs in teens. As prescription drug abuse is on the rise in America its abuse has not left out a crucial group of people; adolescents. “The findings of this study indicate that nonmedical prescription drug use is significantly associated with self-reported delinquency as well as self-reported arrest” (Ford‚ 2008). The article discusses

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