Dangers of Drugs There are many persuasive arguments you can give to convince middle school students not start using drugs. One argument is the pain you would put your family through. Not only is it dangerous to using the drugs‚ it is also very dangerous to be around the people that sell the drugs. One of the best arguments I could give it the very harmful affects that the drug does to your body. There are endless arguments that you could give to students not to buy and use drugs but I believe
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Criminal Justice 1305 October 10‚ 2012 Drug Crimes Drugs have been a part of the United States‚ and Minnesota‚ since the 1800’s. Since then more drugs have been created and used. More drugs in turn led to more drug abuse. This abuse led to more violations‚ which caused the government to form laws against drugs (Rattliff). Today‚ there are laws ranging in degrees of punishment for possessing drugs‚ selling drugs‚ trafficking drugs‚ and manufacturing drugs (Minnesota Criminal Defense Law‚ 2012)
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DEFINITION USE OF DRUGS IN THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES. Treating disease through the administration of drugs. CLASSIFICATION OF DRUGS 1. based on how they are dispensed 2. based on where they are derived CLASSIFICATION OF DRUGS 3. based on their name a. chemical name b. generic name c. brand name CLASSIFICATION OF DRUGS 4. based on dosage forms 5. based on routes of administration 6. based on site of action
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Drugs and its effect Drugs are used in everyday life and in the modern world‚ new drugs are being created to beat diseases and illness. However‚ with the amount of drugs available from consumption‚ there tend to be a few users who abuse the use of legal and illegal drugs. Different drugs that were created to combat headaches or pain to ones that are created to enhance performance or happiness for a short period of time. Abuse of drugs can affect a person economically‚ psychologically and physically
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Drug addiction‚ in recent decades‚ has become a matter of concern for every individual‚ community and nation. Mankind no doubt has been using and abusing drugs right from the very beginning‚ but in the present century drug addiction has emerged as a cancer and has brought within its fold almost all the segments of society. The technological revolution has brought about sweeping changes throughout the world and has reduced the entire world to a global village. Knowledge explosion and technological
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should be held responsible for the abuse of prescription drugs among people. At first‚ it seemed that doctors were not taking pain serious enough and they were failing to prescribe the right doses of painkillers to their patients. Sadly‚ this could have possibly started an epidemic of doctors prescribing too much medication to their patients. How did doctors go from not prescribing enough to making one of the nation’s leading causes of death pharmaceutical drug overdoses? Lately‚ there seems to
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Drug awareness seminar held at STC THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) conducted a drug awareness talk last Aug. 27 at the St. Theresa’s College (STC) auditorium along General Maxillom Avenue in Cebu City. Alan Trani‚ human resource officer of STC‚ organized the seminar with PDEA officials Ramon Montenegro and Nicholas Gomez as the resource speakers. Gomez said “milkshake” is the “in thing” among the drug users today. Milkshake is a mixture of Nubain‚ a regulated drug‚ and shabu
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and white cells‚ drug bound to proteins passes through pores in capillaries into the nephron Distal Reabsorption Non-ionized drug molecules (lipid soluble) are reabsorbed into capillaries Ionized molecules required by body (glucose) actively transported back into capillaries Ionized drug molecules (non-lipid soluble) pass into the bladder pH influences reabsorption pH of urine: around 6 ‚ ranges 4.4 to 8 pH manipulated more acidic or basic to facilitate excretion of drugs Kidney makes urine
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Effective Treatment for Drug Addiction Introduction “Every year‚ hundreds of thousands of Americans undergo treatment for substance use disorder‚ also called addiction” (Hart & Ksir‚ 2013‚ p. 409). Drug addiction is a complex brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and function of the brain. It is a condition characterized by an overwhelming and uncontrollable desire or craving to continue taking a drug to which one has become habituated through repeated consumption
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provides financial incentives to local jurisdictions that design evidence-based services to supervise and treat non-violent offenders in the community instead of sending them to state prisons. ARI is based on the premise that local jurisdictions can reduce crime and the costs of the criminal justice system by understanding and addressing the reasons why people commit crimes. Results expected with ARI include reduced prison overcrowding‚ lowered cost to taxpayers‚ and an end to the expensive and vicious
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