Causes & Effects of Drugs The most common causes of drugs to me is association‚ the people you hang around which goes back to that famous saying birds of a feather flock together. Another cause of using drugs is that a lot of people are not happy with themselves. So they put drugs in there body to hurt themselves its like they are putting poison in their bodies. An other cause would be that there is a lot of peer pressure out there‚ and a lot of their friends pressure them to
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Causes And Effects Of Drugs Drug abuse is a very common problem in most countries‚ so it seems like a list of a topic could be heard everywhere. Of course‚ drug abuse on our bodies to cause some harm. The following are the side effects of some commonly abused drug name and on our bodies. First of all‚ heroin is an opiate processed directly from the extracts of the opium poppy. It was originally created to help cure people of addiction to morphine. Upon crossing the blood-brain barrier‚ which
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The Cause & Effect of Drugs If drugs are bad then why do people choose to do them? There are several reasons to why people begin to use and eventually get hooked on drugs. Some people just want to experiment and see for themselves how drugs make their mind and body feel. Others get hooked on due to problems they have that make them stress and even depressed. There are many more reasons to how people begin to use drugs. One thing is certain‚ drugs are not beneficial and therefore should not
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Class Participation Work of HIS 212 The Question of the Cause and Effect of the American Spanish War! Phillip Andrews Bethel University William Harwood The cause of the American Spanish war in 1898 was the finale impact when the USS Maine was destroyed. The Newspaper of American Press (yellow press) stated it was the Spanish whom attacked the United States. This was published by William R. Hearst‚ and Joseph Pulitzer which also cause a stir amongst the Americans and the Government. The people
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addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster compulsive drug abuse. They mistakenly view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem and may characterize those who take drugs as morally weak. One very common belief is that drug abusers should be able to just stop taking drugs if they are only willing to change their behavior. What people often underestimate is the complexity of drug addiction—that it is a disease that impacts the brain and because of that‚ stopping drug abuse is
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DRUGS ABUSE IN KENYA: ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS IN CENTRAL PROVINCE: A CASE STUDY OF KANDARA DIVISION BY ROBERT WAGUCHU NG’ANG’A DS/0048/07 REPORT PRESENTED TO THE SCHOOL OF DEVELOPMENT AND STRATEGIC STUDIES (SDSS) MASENO UNIVERSTY IN PARTIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHALOR OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES WITH IT. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction of the topic of study Drugs and substance abuse is a problem that has raised concern all over the world. Drugs abused affect
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cattle. This is the stereotypical life of a drug dealer. This is what drug dealers so call "work". Work meaning a job where money is made selling drugs to whoever chooses to buy their products. It is hard to differentiate which is worse‚ the causes or effects of selling drugs. The causes of selling drugs are the desperate need for money in most cases. They think they can get rich overnight and that will solve their problems. Most of the "ghetto" drug dealers happen to grow up in that type environment
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A drug can be said to be any substance use in medicine. It can also be said to be any substance taken by some people to get certain effect‚ such as happiness and excitement. Driving from these definitions above‚ drugs can be classified into two categories; 1] the soft Drug e.g. antibiotics and analgesics. 2] The hard drugs e.g. cocaine‚ marijuana heroin e.t.c. Consequently‚ a drug addict is said to be someone whose life has become dependent on drugs‚ hence drug abuse. Cause of drug abuse among youth;
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for illicit drugs‚ $193 billion for tobacco‚ and $235 billion for alcohol. As staggering as these numbers are‚ they do not fully describe the extent of destructive public health and safety implications of drug abuse and addiction‚ such as family disintegration‚ loss of employment‚ failure in school‚ domestic violence‚ and child abuse. These consequences all blossom from curiosity‚ diversion of reality‚ and the want to be socially accepted. Many young people become involved in drugs before they are
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“American imperialism in 1898 was not a sudden abandonment of anti-colonial tradition but was a logical extension of commercial expansion‚ something the US had been doing throughout its history” (SparkNotes: The Spanish American War‚ 1898-1901‚: Effects of the Treaty). President McKinley was not interested in wars of conquest or of territorial aggression. His interest in expansion was “to make the United States first in international commerce and as a means to implement its humanitarian and democratic
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