Drug rehabilitation

AFFIRMATIVE I affirm: Resolved: The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be treated as a matter of public health, not of criminal justice. I define the following key terms: Treated- to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way to consider or regard in a specified way, and deal with accordingly: 2. to consider or regard in a specified way, and deal with accordingly 3.to deal with (a disease, patient, etc.) in order to relieve or cure. (dictionary.com) Public health- health services…

Substance abuse is an extremely dangerous issue that affects every one in ten Americans. Not only is this statistic frightening, it alludes to the fact that somebody you know may be addicted to drugs, alcohol, or prescription medication. Substance abuse can lead to the loss of a job, create mental illnesses, and in some extreme cases, cause death. These addictions can have a huge emotional and physical toll on a person. Now with about 19.9 million Americans admitting to some form of substance…

Alberto Beltran English 73x TTH 8-11 AM Professor Elizabeth Buchanan 04/14/2016 Drug Addicts Without doubt, drug addiction is accompanied by numerous social, mental and medical disorders. In the world there are people that think that being a drug addict is not dangerous. Be a drug addict or stay with a person that is addicted to the drugs in dangerous for some reasons. One of them is that if a person use drugs constantly in the future, it could cause problems with the health. According to…

explain addiction (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2012). Although individuals with drug addictions may possess some of the same characteristics, the etiology and impetus can only be explained on an individual basis (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2012). Moreover, Doweiko (2012) states that although someone…

abuse is a nation-wide phenomenon – with an increase in both drug users and manufacturers in Canada, effective harm reduction strategies are in high demand (Howlett, Giovannetti, Vanderklippe, & Perreaux, 2016; Kerr et al., 2009; Lunn & Zimonjic, 2016; CBC News, 2009). With the highest rate of drug related crimes committed in British Columbia, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is home to one of the country's largest populations of illicit drug users (Kerr et al., 2009; Cotter, Greenland, & Karam,…

Introduction: Over the years, the amount of people died from drug overdoses increased in the United States. Also, “in 2009 drug-induced deaths overtook traffic accidents as the number one external cause of death, with 39,147 deaths” (Swensen, 2014). Substance abuse including alcohol and drugs is linked to different negative social conditions, such as family disruptions, financial issues, school failure, decrease or lost in productivity, crime, child abuse, and domestic violence. In addition,…

The clubhouse model came about after the 1950’s deinstitutionalize movement. The deinstitutionalize movement consisted of many state mental hospitals closing, leaving many homeless and incarcerated. Thousands of people did not have access to medication as well as had no one to case manage their situations. The clubhouse model follows the model of the Fountain House in New York. The Fountain House is a place that became a type of safe haven to those whom were deinstitutionalized, giving them a…

Director of Business Development is this person whom possesses all these qualities and exceeded any expectation of a marginal interview. While Kathy Prizmich had extensive years of success working with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, had made a name for herself and could have easily , she made a decision to leave her comfort zone and enter into the private sector as the Business Development for the western regional area. Kathy took a stance to not limit…

way of experimentation. Although the use of alcohol and drugs is common among the teens, those who develop dependent characteristics of these substances arouse the concern of the public health. The use of drugs in adolescents increases the risk of one becoming a drug addict in adulthood (MO'Malley, Johnston, & Bachman, 1998). Experts state that small degrees of substance abuse can result in adverse health consequences and thus the use of drugs by adolescents should not be…

Valvuloplasties in Recurrent Bacterial Endocarditis in Relapsing Intravenous Drug Users There has been an increasing incidence of intravenous (IV) heroin usage and overdoses in Ohio over the past 15 years. With it, hospitals in the state are seeing a substantial influx of medical complications related to IV heroin abuse. Infective endocarditis (IE) is one of the most severe, potentially life-threatening, complications for IV drug abuse with an inpatient mortality of 15-20% and a 1-year…