Effects of Drug Abuse Essay

(2012), the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program is a worldwide ideal program created in 1983 by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District. D.A.R.E. provides students from kindergarten through high school students with the skills necessary to recognize and resist pressures to try drugs and to avoid gangs and gang’s violence. The program emphasize one’s self-esteem, decision making, personal communications skills, and the concerns of drug abuse,…

envisions a world in which students everywhere are empowered to respect others and choose to lead lives free from violence, substance abuse, and other dangerous behaviors.” This is the vision of the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. The D.A.R.E. program is a substance abuse prevention education system that seeks to prevent the use of illicit drugs, membership in gangs, and other violent behavior. The D.A.R.E. program is effective for the United State’s youth. The…

Hallucinogens are drugs that cause an individual to experience an apparent perception of something that is not actually present. Some examples of these are LSD, Psilocybin, mescaline and MDMA (also known as ecstasy). These drugs are also known as “party” or “club” drugs and individuals who typically use these drugs are also using other drugs as well. These drugs do not classify as addictive due to the lack of withdrawal symptoms (Maxwell & Spence, 2005). Populations who tend to be most at risk…

and drug activity. What many people fail to mention is that these “problems” did not happen overnight. These “problems” have been caused by several different issues that have plagued the city. In 1971, President Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” The term “war on drugs,” can be defined as a prohibition of illegal drug production, illegal drug trade, and illegal drug use. The way drug President Nixon decided to implement the “war on drugs” was by an increase on new and old federal drug…

Substance use and abuse is considered a non-communicable disease; non-communicable diseases can be more difficult to treat than a communicable disease, but treatments do not have to be expensive. There are many cost effective interventions that can be implemented to treat and help prevent substance abuse. Cost effectiveness is defined in Public Health 101 (2015) as “a concept that combines issues of benefits and harms with issues of financial costs” (Riegelman & Kirkwood, p. 127). Three cost…

several ways to prevent students to using drugs. The best place to education students about drug use is in a classroom setting. Many students received their drug education at their public or private schools. It has been implicated that early push for drug education may have caused a negative effect on the prevention of drug use in students. It was believed that the sudden push to promote drug education may has in fact cause more student to become aware of drugs than they were before. It was…

on ineffective programs such as shock incarceration and drug prevention programs, such as, DARE can help provide correctional actors with an effective way to cut funding for programs that do not work. In other words, it would be counterproductive to use limited funding or waste funding on programs that simply do not work and cause higher rates of recidivism. The intent of boot camps, shock incarceration,…

This is all the things I have learned by doing the dare program. I learned a lot of stuff in dare and here are some things I have learned by doing dare. First, I learned in dare that alcohol can slow down your brain and can also loss of coordination, poor judgment, memory loss, loss of self-control, slow reflexes. Alcohol also weakens the heart muscle and minimizes the amount of blood that pumps to you heart. I also learned how bad alcohol can be to your body and can also cause liver cancer.…

start from the beginning. D.A.R.E. has taught me alot. I thought drugs were just wine, beer, and smoking. But there is much more to it. I never knew how bad smoking was. I mean, it is just crazy. I would have never guessed that second hand smoking, breathing in the smoke from someone else, kills over 50,000 people each year. I did not even really know what second hand smoking was until D.A.R.E. And I thought D.A.R.E. was about drugs only. But I was wrong. It was also about different ways of…

clue on what the effects of drugs would be. Now, I am very educated on what the effects of drugs are. Drugs can cause memory loss, weaken your senses, and even death. To me don’t be a zero be a DARE hero, means to never take take drugs and by doing that you are being a hero because you have saved yourself from so much damage. If you are asked to take drugs, follow these steps: define, assess, respond, and lastly evaluate. In DARE, we talked and learned about a lot of drugs. The first two…