Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Essays

use illegally. According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, national survey on drug use and health, Table 1.12B – Marijuana Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month, by Detailed Age Category: Percentages 2014, 44.2% of the United States population has illegally tried marijuana at least once, and 13.2 has used marijuana in the previous year. The use of marijuana is extensively popular in the United States while the 2nd most illicit drug use in 2014 cocaine, is poorly…

Introduction A substance abuse counselor is in place to encourage and support clients who are addicted to alcohol and drugs. When alcohol and drug abuse client come to an agency to receive treatment, as a counselor it’s important that to encourage the client to receive the help to that the client can be rehabilitated. There are four core function of a counselor that will be discussed in this paper is client education, case management, crisis intervention, and referral. Each of these functions…

Welfare Recipients Drug Testing Should it be mandatory for welfare recipients to be drug tested? This is one of the questions that is being asked all over the country. Many are concerned about whether or not it will cost more or save the government money by taking the drug addicts off welfare programs and giving them to people who really need the benefits. While many believe it is okay to drug test welfare recipients, others feel that drug testing is wrong because they consider it…

Pain Medication Drug Abuse Americans are obsessed with popping pills. Our culture believes that a pill will cure anything from the common cold to cancer. Big pharmaceuticals have spent billions of dollars developing and marketing drugs to the young and old. While drugs are beneficial in many ways, there are some major disadvantages to being a society so heavily dependent on drugs. One of those disadvantages is unintentional drug abuse. Many times a doctor will prescribe a drug for pain and…

Maryland is known as the U.S Heroin capital and one in ten of Baltimore’s residents are addicted to the drug (Yang, 2014). Graph 1 provided by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014) represents the number of deaths caused by Heroin in Baltimore, MD from January through June 2007-2014: Drug abuse is a disease that is often overlooked and if left untreated it could turn into a recreational activity for the people using them. Many teens are using illegal substances and…

“Recreational drugs is a drug as (Cocaine, Marijuana, or methamphetamine) used without medical justification for its psychoactive effects often in the belief that occasional use of such a substance is not habit-forming or addictive” (Merriam Webster). Many people believe that even if they do not do it all the time they will not get hooked. “In my 17 years of living i have seen and done things that an average person has not seen or done, for one i have seen someone get shot and killed just…

requirements for batterer treatment programs, effectively saying they are sanctioned by the state as “best-practice”. These treatments include Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) using a group format with two facilitators, a substance abuse group for offenders who struggle with addiction, and individualized therapy for select participants. This research proposal seeks to determine if Domestic Violence Offenders who participate in any form of this treatment show reduced levels…

Using and Abusing Ever since birth, drugs have unconsciously been a part of everyone 's life. Several rounds of vaccines as a baby, several more before starting kindergarten, a few before junior high school, and maybe even a couple during the high school years. What exactly is in those vaccines? The answer is simple. Drugs. However, as humans grow older, the amount of vaccines needed and received decreases dramatically. Although people normally do not sit around and give themselves vaccines,…

I attended the UCD School of Nursing interprofessional experience where treatment of domestic violence and substance abuse was addressed on two separate days. The first day of the seminar was very interesting to me because it was my first time learning about the signs of domestic violence. I was in a group that consisted of nursing students, and they were all very curious about my role as a Social Worker. They asked me questions such as, what I am currently doing at my internship and what made…

Intimate partner violence compounded with substance use can be a complex and difficult struggle to work through with survivors and batterers alike. The power and control dynamics of those relationships can be masked often by or depicted as a result of the disease of addiction, which creates a rather convoluted and perplexing circumstantial environment to work within. This is particularly difficult in communities that initially have limited resources. For this reason, a comprehensive approach and…