Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Essays

the rules.” The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction by Sandra Swenson. One’s addiction to drugs creates a tremendous toll on the body, not only theirs but especially for those around them. Those that truly suffer are those who hold the addict close to their heart, financially they have to be strong. The same follows for their own health and cooperating with the user. The use of drugs, abusive and recreational evokes many complications not just in the lives of the abuser but in the…

Drug abuse is a problem that runs rampant among teenagers in our world today. Teens and young adults are very impressionable and at a vulnerable age where they can make poor decisions with dire consequences. The resources at addictioncenter.com say that out of 2.6 million people who have tried marijuana half of them were under the age of 18. Youth often do not understand the dangers they face when trying drugs or how serious addiction can become. According to abovetheinfluence.com, nine out of…

and roses? There is no question we have heard some of these words. Yet, what is unexpected is they are all code words used by teens for prescription drugs per the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens (2016). Prescription drug abuse among teens has rapidly increased, and has become a public health concern. Teens who are abusing prescription drugs are at higher risk for other abusive problems (Milner, Ham, & Zamboanga, 2014.) With many other issues going on in today’s world, there is need to…

Today, the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is the cornerstone of litigation related to drug testing of welfare recipients. While the funding of federal assistance programs continues to escalate, drug abuse in the United States is spiraling out of control. Many states have passed laws that require recipients of assistance programs such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to be drug tested. While these laws may sound reasonable, they infringe the individual rights…

(ACT) on 37 female inmates were incarcerated for a drug-related crime; participants were not abstinent from substances at the beginning of the study. Participants were randomly assigned to ACT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and data was collected for two years (González-Menéndez, 2013). The purpose of the study was to determine the long-term efficacy of ACT on drug abuse in incarcerated females. The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and multi drug urinalysis were used to determine severity…

an addiction is drugs, a chemical that harms the body of the user. Drug addicts often do not realize what their addiction is doing to them. Ultimately, what is at the stake here is addict’s lives. Many drug abusers throw their life away, get killed, or commit suicide because of drugs. On the site Recoverygateway.org, it shares a fact stating that “45% of untreated substance use disorder commit suicide.” Addiction is an awful habit that many people participate in. People who do drugs often do not…

By witnessing their close family members engage in drug use, the children have learned that drug use was considered “okay” in their social circle, therefore positively reinforcing the idea that they too should indulge in drugs. This reinforcement has led to an increase in juvenile drug charges, which subconsciously makes the child believe they could not become something better later in life. Also, the child endangerment…

Prescription drug abuse is the use of a medication used in a way not intended by a doctor. Prescription drug abuse is a major problem around the world. Prescription drugs is the most commonly abused substance by Americans age 14 and older. Girls and boys tend to use drugs in different ways. “Boys tend to use it just to get high, and girls use it mainly to stay alert or lose weight” (Brown). Research conducts that boys are more likely to abuse prescription drugs than girls. Everyday in the US,…

recreational drug use became particularly prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s when rave culture and the use of club drugs became popular amongst youths. ‘Club drugs’ is a generalised term for psychoactive substances (Gale, 2006. pp. 905), which are defined by the World Health Organization as ‘substances that affect mental processes’ (Who.int, 2017). One of the most well known, and widely used ‘club drugs’ includes MDMA, also known as Ecstasy or scientifically, 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine.…

Growing up I had to face a reality that most young children do not. My mother was a drug addict and her drug of choice was heroin. I was aware of her addiction from an early age; events that were commonplace in my home, I look back now as an adult and realize how wrong they were. For instance, it was made out to be a game to sort the seeds out of her marijuana. I remember being very young, possibly five or six and describing what was needed and how to shoot up heroin to my grandparents.…