Substance-related disorders

INTRODUCTION The Love Canal episode is one of the major and most publicized environmental disaster recorded in America history. In recent time, it has been described as an epidemic. It became a focus of intensive and extensive studies on health effect, environmental studies and epidemiologic research (Friis and Seller, 2014, p.20; Jasanoff, 1998 p.83). This paper attempts to bring to light how a community is forced to bear the consequences of decision made by greedy and negligent corporate…

Sound of Rehabilitation Approximately 250,000 people die annually due to an illicit drug overdose. Drug addiction is interfering with the lives of citizens and degrading nations by draining taxpayers’ dollars due to lost productivity at work, health care, and crime. While laws prohibiting drug use exist in many countries, and rehabilitation centers offer assistance to those in need of aid—it is not enough because nearly 200 million people abuse drugs worldwide. Furthermore, 90% of addicts who…

“Consequences of Illegal Drug Use” remarks, “Accidents, crime, domestic violence, illness, lost opportunity, and reduced productivity are the direct consequences of substance abuse.” In majority of substance abuse cases, the abuser is either sent to jail or lives a life of misery. When the law is involved, some may think that throwing a substance abuser in jail is the best route but that may not be the case. “Prison time for Drug Users” argues that while the abuser is in jail they can’t…

FDA should be able to control the chemical substances that companies put into their products, particularly when the chemicals are known carcinogens, neurotoxins, endocrine disruptors, or pose any other possible harm to the human body. In her article, Ventura admits that natural products don’t tend to be as satisfying as their harmful counterparts. The attractive properties of the beauty products that people desire are the result of the harmful substances being put into them. Moreover, the…

Cocaine as with many of illicit drugs, can be backed a theory regarding why users experiment leading to use, abuse, and may become addicted. My theory behind drug usage, in this case, cocaine, is backed behind the classical theory biological instinct – that being a psychological theory of reinforcement. It is important to understand what is meant by reinforcement theory – which can be split into two categories. The first, being positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement “occurs when the…

hinted taking into account that most abusers of similar illegal stimulants eventually overdose. The expression “covered in white” is a figure of speech since the woman is not literally covered in cocaine, but rather has inhaled a great amount of the substance. As the drug addict becomes aware of the overdose, she regrets the decisions made and wishes for her life to be different. In the quote, the singer no longer compares the nameless human to an the spiritual being but instead identifies her…

make up substances that can be pure substances such as Mercury, Iron, gold biscuits or mixtures such as air we breathe, food we eat and water we drink. A substance is a kind of matter that cannot be separated into other kind of matter by any physical process. For example sugar or salt solution, air, water, water in oil. A pure substance consists of a single type of particles (Elements and Compounds).Mixtures are substances formed when different kinds of particles come together. When a substance…

The Dealer Lucky was a big time drug dealer , he was around about I say 23 years of age , he started out real young watching his dad bringing in money but he didn't know what he was doing to bring in that type of money so he got curious and starting selling little nickel and dime bags . Lucky started getting into trouble. He started getting careless like he was untouchable . He started slipping up he would drive with drugs on him and he always would use the same route he never switched his…

Growing up my older brother Tyler and I were the best of friends, referred to by my mom as ‘attached at the hip’. We went everywhere together, making fun out of the smallest things. He was one of the people that made my childhood so great, always happy never worried about a thing. As I began to grow older however, I began noticing subtle changes in Tyler. He began coming home later, detaching himself from the family, and excluding me from everything he did. I would’ve never guessed that these…

Deviance Biography Theory Application My aunt “Maria”, was involved in deviant behavior as a child, truancy, fighting and so on, which precluded a life and criminal behavior involving drugs and prostitution that is now starting to fade out of her life after thirty years. Her criminal life began with running away and eventual resulted in prostitution, drug dealing, larceny and identity theft from late teens to today. Her action have been recklessness concerning her own life and well being and…