Drug Abuse Resistance Education

(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…

percentage of Canadian youth who report using cannabis has been cited as the highest in the developed world (Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2016b). According to United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Research, in 2013 twenty-eight percent of Canadian Children aged 11 to 15 admitted to using cannabis at least once in the past year. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) (2016b) reported as much as 7% of adolescents smoke marijuana every single day; making Canadian youth top cannabis…

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.…

“Bullet” by Hollywood Undead, an American rock-rap band, is a piece of music that leaves the listeners puzzled as to its true meaning is. While the guitar chords can be considered cheerful, the lyrics speak of self harm and ending one’s life, topics that do not fall into the same mood as the guitar. This contrast in the music presents an interesting dynamic to assess and decipher what the music is trying to get across. Not only does the song have an intriguing dynamic, but the official lyric…

down or to ease the pain if they are in any. They know that it is cheating to take drugs. If they get caught doing drugs while they are in sports, it can have a negative effect on the person doing it and the team if they are in a team sport. Doping happens in professional and amateur sports, it can be dangerous to the person who uses the drugs and…

out of some deep, real deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside. I got to get outside.” Explanation: This shows much Sonny is suffering. He first suffers from drug addiction, which ended him up in jail. The real deep and funky hole can be a metaphor for his battle with drug addiction. He sees how his drug addiction is destroying him both physically and mentally and now wants to change. He suffers from knowing that he has hurt his family and is shamed to talk to them because of…