Baby Dumping by Tharshanath Kunakai Baby dumping occurs when a pair of irresponsible parents mainly teenagers decide to just abandon their newborn baby and place them where? In an unfavorable condition‚ such as the dumpsters‚ abandoned places or even in front of someone else’s house. Baby dumping is also considered as a form of murder and the irresponsible parents will be punished and placed behind the bars. It is also considered illegal in all countries. According to a reliable source‚ a baby is
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adverse effects is known as Pharmacodynamics. Neurotransmitters are described as chemicals that are discharged into the brain to allow an impulse from one nerve cell to pass to another nerve cell (CIATATION) . During drug addiction‚ opids become substances in the brain that act as neurotransmitters. Drugs chemicals that enter the brain can affect the communication system and the way neurons process information. Drug chemicals don’t activate neurons like normal neurotransmitter would‚ which leads to
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their substance abuse and parenting style. The adolescents were questioned about alcohol‚ marijuana‚ crack/cocaine‚ and heroin. Surveys were utilized for this study. The neglectful parenting style‚ which researchers defined as showing the least amount of affection and effort spent disciplining your child‚ was found to lead to the highest rates of alcohol and substance abuse in these adolescents. This study also surveyed the teens about days they had problems from the alcohol or substance abuse. The
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United States jails and prisons are overflowing with individuals convicted of drug and alcohol related crimes. A substantially large portion of those inmates meet the DSM-5 criteria for substance dependence and are even more likely to be habitual offenders as a result of the innate nature of substance dependency. Investigating the long-term effects of court-mandated treatment programs outside of jail and prison could provide valuable insight with the potential to greatly reduce the rate of repeated
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Drug Profile Paper Shamrock/JW Chemical Dependency in the Workplace April 20‚ 2011 Drug Profile Paper This paper will summarize some aspects on the psychology and physiology of cocaine addiction as well as other particular drug substances that causes hallucinations and depression In addition illegal and legal drugs that are widely used by young adults like stimulants‚ cannabis and narcotics will be discuss as well. No doubt‚ crack cocaine surfaced to the Los Angeles street
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that a person needs a drug to function normally. Drug addiction is the compulsive use of a substance‚ without the worries of the negative effects or the dangers of using. Drug addiction plays major role in how a person is viewed and dealt with in society‚ and make have an effect on not only the users lifestyle‚ but may also effect their family life in and outside the household. The exact cause of drug abuse and dependency is not really known. There are thought to be many factors that may lead
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treatment. The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) screens client who may be defensive or in denial and measure “defensiveness and the subtle attribute that are common in chemically dependent persons” (Perkinson‚ 2012‚ p. 12). The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and the Ten-Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) are also widely used‚ and structured interviews for adults and teen are designed to provide important information about the severity of the client’s substance abuse problem that includes:
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other people are concerned and feel horrible‚ however‚ when someone is diagnosed with an addiction to drugs they are faced with ridicule‚ and alienation? It seems that it may be this way since cancer has been researched for many years while drug addiction has not. People who abuse drugs are affected by physiological changes that occur in the brain‚ unfortunately these changes are what leads to addiction and should be treated as the disease it is and not as if it is a choice. The disease that addictions cause makes many physical changes to the human body but addiction
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misrepresented. Here is a guide to what you might expect from your addiction treatment. The basic goals for addiction treatment are essentially pretty simple: to provide people with a safe environment where they can be removed from all chemical substances and any triggers
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least 90 days. As a person continues to abuse drugs‚ the brain starts needing more and more of that substance to reach that peak. The tolerance to the drug and subsequent increasing of the “dose”‚ puts a drug user at an increased chance of overdosing. An overdose occurs when too much of a substance is put into the body. The body struggles against the attack‚ but can’t always compensate as the organs are affected. During a depressant overdose(morphine‚ fentanyl‚ oxycodone‚ heroin‚ etc.) some of the
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