Drug Abuse Resistance Education

her usage… a strong physiological or psychological need to use alcohol or drugs” (2001, p. 40). According to Dr. Marco Diana, a disease or pathology is “A derailment from normal functioning of a system/organ/cell (physiology), and ultimately of the whole organism” (2013, p. 1). From my limited understanding of neurobiology, psychology, and behavior, I have come to the conclusion that addiction, whether to alcohol or other drugs does not meet the requirements of a disease. I will examine some…

Drug abuse is a chronic public health issue that effects people in every level of our society. Drug abuse effects more than just the user. It interferes with relationships, status I society, health, and one’s employment. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), approximately 10 percent of nurses reported dependency on drugs while working in the field (Copp, 2009). Why is it that nurses have a relatively high incidence of substance abuse? The goal of this research paper is to present…

Drug are harmful to the human body and the people around. Each year many people get addicted to the drugs and start to abuse them. These people enter a dangerous situation and it is hard to get out. The statistics show that the problem of drug abuse is just getting worse. Each year more and more people are getting introduced to the harmful drugs and, and these people are usually young. Drug abuse is harmful because of the effects to your body, the kinds of drugs used and how to stop using…

only costly money-wise, but it also claims many lives each year. Nearly 200,000 people die each year from alcohol abuse, that includes deaths from accidents and diseases caused by alcohol (Claypool 17). Alcohol abuse plays a part in some 10,000 accidental deaths a year, at home and on the job (Langone 39). The U.S. Department of Justice Report on Alcohol and Crime found that alcohol abuse was a factor in 40 percent of violent crimes committed in the United States (Violence 1). In 1996 there were…

high rate of adolescent substance abuse. Substance abuse is even prevalent in developing countries of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Because they are labeled as developing countries, they do not have the support that global devolved countries have to help these adolescents. For example, the United States has school social workers, adolescent substance abuse programs and teen meetings. Developing countries does not have the same focus on adolescent substance abuse, because the funds are not…

Teen drug abuse had became a big problem worldwide due to the lack of education that teens have on drugs. Parents do not educate their teens to the point that they know everything they should know about drugs, such as, how damaging to the body and health of a teen they can be. Teens do not realize that they are putting their health at risk, and they are also putting others at risk as well. Drug abuse doesn’t just mean that a teen is addicted to one drugs, once a teen starts to abuse drugs they…

The problem, however, is that when drug users are convicted, their student loans can be denied. This is the exact opposite of what our justice system should be doing. We should be helping them grow to become better citizens, rather than make barricades that prevent them from becoming productive members of society. With the price of college tuition skyrocketing it is nearly impossible to pay for college while working an unskilled labor job. This leaves them in the predicament of working a low…

The Rise of Homelessness Homelessness is widespread, especially in cities and states that have a low employment rate. A lot are substance abusers that have only the drug or alcohol on their minds. While various programs are available to the homeless, Lots don’t qualify or do not have the resources to stay involved in the programs. Programs like Catholic charities and shelters that offer services to the homeless. There are ways to combat this problem for human service professionals alongside…

environmental, these opportunities to experiment with drugs could have lasting effects on everyone involved. Often the consequences of taking performance enhancing drugs are minor issues, but could have a major impact, it’s effect could be negative and the results could be completely unexpected. The decisions that we make influence the world we live in. Ethical Dilemma Members of Paul’s team have been experimenting with a new performance enhancing drug for some time and have been greeting great…

Bernstein has more multiple uses of pathos than Gogeks’. Bernstein was able to do that by having different people such as actual addicts or children of addicts give their stories of how drug abuse affects them. For starters, Bernstein opens her article about a woman known as Tracy Carter who was sent to county jail for her addiction to heroin and wrote, “Carter says she herself was born a heroin addict. So were most of her seven children” (Bernstein 632). The significance of placing this story…