Deangelo Whitfield TR 11 Drug Abuse Drug abuse is a big problem in the United States which causes short term‚ long term and financial problems for many. I. Introduction A. The title of my speech is drug abuse and I’m here to inform the problems of drugs. B. It is important to know the problems of drugs so you know not to try them or let anyone you know tries any.
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Ivette Molina 1/7/08 AP Psychology Essay Test “Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: Roots‚ Effects‚ and Prevention.” Alcoholism and drug abuse has existed for as long as we can remember. For teenagers its something cool to do and numb whatever pains they have. For adults it’s a way to get away from everyday stress and avoid conflicts in life. To everyone it’s a way to feel free and as if they are in charge of the world by altering their moods‚
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Harmful Effects of Drug Abuse during Pregnancy When a woman becomes pregnant‚ it is vital to her baby ’s health that she leads a healthy life. For a pregnant woman‚ substance abuse is twice as dangerous. Any drug use while pregnant has dangerous effects. First‚ drugs may harm her own health‚ which interferes with her ability to support the pregnancy. Second‚ some drugs can directly impair prenatal development. During pregnancy‚ virtually all drugs pose a danger. Even legal substances‚ such as alcohol
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of positivism or the positivist perspective. Some characteristics of this type of methodology are:- ·The evolution of society followed a set of laws. These laws were governed by principles of cause and effect. ·Human behaviour‚ like the behaviour of matter can be objectively measured. ·The behaviour that is observed can therefore‚ be analyzed and examined in order to create theories. Positivists also prefer "correlation" as a key method of analyzing sociological research. This means that they
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should be held responsible for the abuse of prescription drugs among people. At first‚ it seemed that doctors were not taking pain serious enough and they were failing to prescribe the right doses of painkillers to their patients. Sadly‚ this could have possibly started an epidemic of doctors prescribing too much medication to their patients. How did doctors go from not prescribing enough to making one of the nation’s leading causes of death pharmaceutical drug overdoses? Lately‚ there seems to
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Prescription drugs are one of the most commonly used methods of curing illness‚ and fighting diseases‚ however they have many negative side effects such as addiction and abuse as seen in today’s society and in Brave New World. One in every four people in America abuse prescription drugs. There are many diseases people could die from if not for prescription drugs. Prescription drugs also tranquilize many illnesses or harmful body conditions allowing for a sort of numbness or ease to the human body
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Biological Theories “Biological theories of crime focus on the physiological‚ biochemical‚ neurological‚ and genetic factors that influence criminal behavior. However‚ such theories also stress the complex link between a person ’s biology and the broad span of social or environmental factors that sociological theories examine” (Denno‚ 2009). Biological factors that contribute to crime are something neurological or chemical related‚ which is not to be confused with a genetic factor that is inherited
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realm‚ began to feel their grip on power falter. By targeting drug use‚ the government would be free to "deal" with minorities especially African Americans‚ Hispanics‚ the free-love generation‚ and left-wing "radicals‚" all while claiming that they were protecting our country and our borders from the international drug trade‚ as well as ridding our streets of drugs and related violence. In addition‚ many government worried that if drug use became widespread‚ they would no longer be able to control
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The biological components may be an inherited gene that was passed to this adult such as alcoholism‚ depression or anxiety. If alcoholism is in the family‚ the young adult could of inherited the gene and believes that having drinks to relax is the way to go. The effect of alcohol on the individual contributes to the drinking to excess to unwind. The biological status of the individual pertains to the biological and inherited characteristics which affect the response to the alcohol and the mood the
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88925 o /http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-511.html Biological screening of natural products and drug innovation in China Abstract The use of and search for drugs and dietary supplements derived from plants have accelerated in recent years. Ethnopharmacologists‚ botanists‚ microbiologists‚ and natural-products chemists are combing the Earth for phytochemicals and “leads” which could be developed
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