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,…
Drug and substance abuse affect the lives of both the abuser and the family members. "Substance abuse on the part of parents, like domestic abuse, can lead to any child maltreatment. Parents under the influence of drugs or alcohol can physically, sexually, or emotionally abuse their children and often do." The use of drugs and other substances for reasons other than medical purposes is likely to result in a variety of negative impacts ranging from health, social, physical, emotional to…
The Abuse of Drugs and Excess Alcohol Taking The abuse of illegal drugs and alcohol among poor people considered immoral based on both Kant’s and Mill’s philosophies. One of the immoral aspects is the use of different prohibited substances and the excessive consumption of alcohol. Here, such people are breaking the law by going against using such drugs while; although excessive drinking may be within the law, it becomes unethical when it affects the person’s ability to handle their…
WebMD defines substance addiction as the “chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the drug addict and those around them. Drug addiction is a brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and function of the brain”. (Goldberg 2014) While the actual physical state of dependence on both legal and illegal substances such as alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and cocaine is a mental disorder and a…
of drugs, tobacco and alcohol in the family. I will discuss the different viewpoints of drug dependence along with research perspective of drug dependence. To understand the concept of abuse we must understand what abuse is. Abuse comes in all forms and I will discuss the many issues associated with drug abuse and how it effects the family. According to quantative research personality and substance dependence symptoms model substance specific traits. The traits are often found in a family…
Child Abuse and Our Society It seems so hard to stop child abuse because everyone has a different idea on what “abuse” is. According to the dictionary, abuse is to treat (a person or animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly. Some might argue that hitting a child on the bottom with a belt is okay if they are disciplined for their wrong-doing. Others argue that spanking a child is abuse and there are other ways to discipline. So, where do you draw a line between…
Drug addiction is an issue that is very common around the world. This problem affects people’s lives. Drug abuse can cause numerous amounts of harmful effects. Most of the effects affect personal health, while others are involved with social relations, and also the interference with the economic part, dealing with money. All of these effects are the result of drugs and over usage of drugs. Drug addiction will always destroy personal relations between people. People forget their…
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…
Substance Abuse; noun, “overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs.” Substance abuse has become more prevalent recently, grasping onto the lives of adults like you and I every day. Fisher, G. (2009) The overwhelming dependence becomes an addiction and forces the user to continue the habit, thriving on the substance, living for the high, and allowing the substance to overtake their lives. Do you even wonder, “why”, what provoked the thought of someone…
Drug Abuse and its Impact on Middle Childhood Children and Adolescents Sarad Basnet Cerritos Collge Child Development 110 Drug Abuse and its Impact on Middle Childhood Children and Adolescents Back in Nepal, my neighbour Eku, has been into drugs for a long time. He was 13 when started smoking Marijuana and even Drinking alcohol. Me and my other friends as a child were constantly reminded by our parents to not to be like him and even not to talk to him. He was five years…