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    causes of drug abuse

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    What causes child abuse? Child abuse can be caused by a number of factors. We outline parental‚ ecological and child factors that could make children vulnerable to abuse. 0 Child abuse can be caused by a number of factors. Rana Escher‚ Marketing Manger of Women against Child Abuse outlines parental‚ ecological and child factors that could make children vulnerable to abuse. Parental factors It is well known that abusive parents often report having been physically‚ sexually or emotionally

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    Prenatal Drug Abuse

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    Prenatal drug abuse is a very tragic‚ yet preventable issue in our society. For a pregnant woman‚ drug abuse is doubly dangerous. Drugs may harm her own health‚ interfering with her ability to support the pregnancy. Also‚ some drugs can directly impair prenatal development. All illegal drugs‚ such as heroin and cocaine‚ pose dangers to a pregnant woman. Legal substances‚ such as alcohol and tobacco‚ are also dangerous‚ and even medical drugs‚ both prescription and over-the-counter‚ can be harmful

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    Prescription Drug Abuse

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    Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic Kartia Kelly COM/156 May 19‚ 2013 Eileen Kicmal A recent poll conducted by the Partnership for a Drug Free America found that adolescents listed drugs as the most important problem facing people their age; prescription drug use is a major problem in our country. (Sallin‚ 2006; Partnership for a Drug Free America). In the United States the second most commonly abused category of drugs are prescription drugs‚ which is then followed

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    Workplace Drug Testing

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    Drug testing within the workplace has become a common practice over the past three decades. While employers continue to focus on eliminating the risks that are associated with drug use from their workplace many other areas are just realizing that drug testing is important. One such area is through workforce development and training. Focusing solely on Indiana‚ drug testing was implemented for all new individuals who were enrolled in training provided by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 on July

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    teen drug abuse

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    teenagers said that drugs were sold‚ used or kept at their school. Which means more then 60% of children have been around drugs or people who have drugs. What effects could such a thing have on the average canadian family? As defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ drug use is a negative pattern of using a substance that leads to a number of problems‚ which may include needing more of a drug to get intoxicated‚ difficulties that occur when the effects of the drug wear off (withdrawal)

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    Substance abuse considered as a strong risk factor for non-adherence among patients with mental illness‚ the MHN would have to make a treatment plan addressing his cannabis use and that will help him long term. It is significant to assess the patient for substance use to know how much and how long they have been using and to encourage them to seek treatment (Macaluso & Mcknight‚ 2013). Different screening‚ diagnosis‚ and treatment for substance abuse are important. A combination of Psychopharmacological

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    Drug-Testing Scheme

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    Should random drug-testing scheme be made compulsory for all school? This must be a question for many of the public. In the past few days‚ there were more and more news about teenagers taking drugs and were set to the emergency ward. There was also information showing that teenager drug addicts have increased 25 percent comparing to last year. It’s a horrible phenomenon and I do agree that it is essential to make every school involved into this drug-testing scheme for the following reasons:

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    Addiction and Drug Abuse

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    Addiction and Drug Abuse There are many people that try drugs out for different reason. Some of the reasons many people experiment with drugs is because they want to have fun‚ improvement in athletic abilities‚ ease of depression‚ anxiety‚ and stress‚ because others are doing it or just out of curiosity. Drug use does not necessarily lead to drug abuse and there is not a particular level that using drugs will change from insouciant to challenging. Drug abuse and addiction varies by individual.

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    most kids start‚ because my friends were all doing drugs. My drug abuse started really getting bad at about fourteen years of age. At 14‚ I was using marijuana about three times a day and I was using LSD at least once every two days. By the time I was 17‚ I was no longer using marijuana and LSD. I had moved on to harder and more destructive drugs. I was using amphetamines and cocaine on a daily basis by the age of 17 years of age. I was abusing drugs behind my family’s backs for years. I stayed clean

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    Montana Drug Abuse

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    there has and will always be a problem with drug abuse. Drug abuse is a very serious and ongoing difficulty that society is faced with daily. However‚ since drug abuse across the nation is such a broad subject with all the different drugs available‚ I would like to narrow it down to a more personal topic. In my home state of Montana‚ methamphetamines is constantly being distributed and abused. My stance is that we must work harder to put an end to this abuse in order to save Montana families and our

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