University of Phoenix Material Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet In this course‚ you will write a 1‚050- to 1‚750-word Personal Responsibility Essay‚ due in Week Five‚ which includes the following: • Define what personal responsibility means to you. • Explain the relationship between personal responsibility and college success. • Include a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in your education. This week‚ using the Center for Writing
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Americans use or have used some type of drug(s). When the topic of drug use and/or abuse brought up‚ naturally‚ alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and illicit drugs are brought into the discussion while disregarding medically accepted drugs. Prescription drugs are usually not included although they make up a high percentage of misuse‚ abuse‚ and death. Properly prescribed medication causes approximately 106‚000 deaths and over 2 million serious side effects. Illicit drugs cause between 10‚000 and 20‚000 deaths per
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Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes Powerful Antipsychotics Used to Subdue Elderly; Huge Medicaid Expense By LUCETTE LAGNADO December 4‚ 2007; Page A1 In recent years‚ Medicaid has spent more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than on any other class of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics‚ AIDS drugs or medicine to treat highblood pressure. One reason: Nursing homes across the U.S. are giving these drugs to elderly patients to quiet symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and
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Drug addiction and Drug abuse Ramona Collins AIU online Abstract Drug addiction and drug abuse a chronic and habitual use of any chemical substance to alter states of the body and your mind for other than medical warranted reasons. The definition of addiction is a physical dependency and withdrawal have
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Drug Advertising Some drugs are good‚ at least some pharmaceutical advertising wants people to believe that. Since 1983‚ prescription drug advertising on television has become a topic of debate‚ should it be allowed or not allowed. What is DTCA? DTCA is direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising on television. The use of direct to consumer prescription drug advertising should be prohibited‚ as it leads to potential overmedication‚ possible drug abuse and could add to the overall cost of the
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I Article Documentation Jason A. Ford‚ PhD‚ 2008‚ Non-medical Prescription Drug Use Among College Students: A Comparison Between Athletes and Non-athletes‚ Heldref Publications‚ 211-217. II Article Summary The article is about the drug use among college students‚ and comparison between the athletes and non-athletes. We see from Dr. Ford‚ “research indicates that college athletes engage in a wide range of risky behaviors. And‚ findings indicate that college athletes are at greater risk
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Alcohol Abuse in Teens Alcoholism is one of the biggest and unrecognized problems in our society today. Alcoholism is a substance-use disorder in which the sufferer has problems managing how much alcohol he/she consumes. Alcoholism (alcohol dependence) is a negative pattern of alcohol use leading to a number of problems‚ which may include needing more alcohol to get intoxicated (tolerance)‚ difficulties that occur when the effects of alcohol wear off (withdrawal)‚ using more alcohol or for longer
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Arturo benitez Period: 3 Date: 2/4/14 Why We Should Not Do Drugs? Thousands of young men have wasted their lives because of illegal drugs in the world. They were mostly victims of a bad influence‚ a broken-home family‚ of ignorance‚ or curiosity. The key reasons why people shouldn’t do drugs are that drugs are bad for your body‚ they ruin your life‚ and they cause addiction. First‚ drugs affect your body in many permanent ways like brain damage‚ heart problems‚ and hallucinations. Brain damage
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Castrence Substance Abuse Education Drug is an element that could possibly change the physical‚ psychological‚ emotional and behaviour of a human being. It is only used when it is prescribed by the doctor‚ because if drugs are misuse by the user‚ their individual’s physical‚ emotional or behavioural condition might distorted. The reasons behind are peer pressure‚ curiosity‚ adventure‚ feel good‚ escape from reality and easy access of drugs. Several people who are using drug are stress or having
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Pharmeuticals How do you feel about some prescription drugs? Do they harm us while supposed to be helping us with our health problems? Prescription drugs are supposed to treat and cure diseases when some harm and kill us because they are not being used right or they are being used too much. Most drugs are becoming an addiction‚ and there are more overdoses occurring for over prescription drug use. Pharmeuticals drugs are being used the wrong way and being taken too much when they
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