Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences a young person might ever face when it interrupts school or other plans. It can create an emotional crisis resulting in feelings of shame and fear‚ and it may appear that you will crumble under pressures in your environment. The stress of how you are going to break this news to your parents might be even greater‚ and finding help may seem an impossible task. You might think no one can help you‚ or you might be too embarrassed to search for
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The Relationship between Delinquency and Drug UseIn my attempt to discover if delinquency and drug use‚ or the sale of drugs were correlated with one another‚ my research lead to a positive correlation‚ especially when there was gang membership involved. The theory I have chosen to tie in with my review of the articles I found is the social learning theory of Edwin Sutherland known as differential association theory. According to Britannica online‚ Sutherland ’s differential association theory of
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Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancy is a topic of concern due to the significant impact on the health of the mother‚ child‚ and community. The resources available for supporting the needs of teenage mothers are decreasing; resulting in the majority of teenage mothers being caught in the vicious cycle of poverty‚ school failure‚ and limited life options (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2000). In the United States more than 40% of women become pregnant before they are twenty years old‚ and 50% of teenage pregnancies
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RELIGIOSITY‚ PEERS‚ AND ADOLESCENT DRUG USE Stephen J Bahr; John P Hoffmann Journal of Drug Issues; Summer 2008; 38‚ 3; Health Module pg. 743 In this paper‚ the writers examined the relationship between religiously‚ peer drug use‚ and adolescent drug use among 4‚ 983 Utah adolescents and the 13‚ 534 respondents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Heath). Adolescents who were religious were less likely to smoke‚ drink heavily‚ and use marijuana than adolescents who were
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Running head: CONTROLLED DRUG USE: IS ADDICTION A “DISEASE”? Application: Controlled Drug Use: Is Addiction A “Disease”? 5/15/2011 Controlled Drug Use: Is Addiction a “Disease”? Alcoholism is a disease in which the intake of alcohol becomes intense. Many of us drink alcohol to socialize which is not alcoholism. In the United States more than half of all individuals at least from time to time drink beverages that contain alcohol (NSDUH‚ 2008). An alcoholic is a recurrent usual. Alcohol
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Running Head: SHOULD DRUGS BE LEGALIZED Comp II Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized Arnold Heningburg Palm Beach Atlantic University Instructor: Heather Patton Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized? In the last 50 plus years‚ the support of legalization of drugs has been a very hotly argued topic in the United States society and the world. Many believe that "street drugs" should be legal and everyone
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THREE WAYS TO REDUCE TEEN PREGNANCY IN SOUTH AFRICA David Harrison 1. NAILING MY COLOURS TO THE MAST I believe that we need to substantially reduce the rate of pregnancy among 16-19 year olds and that there are ways to achieve this goal within five to ten years. For some‚ this assertion should go without saying. But it could be argued that - like total fertility rates - the incidence of teen pregnancy is inversely linked to socio-economic development and not amenable to behavioral intervention
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Teen Drug Use Have you ever seen what drugs can do to a teenager? I will be discussing the statistics and point of view on the teenage drug use throughout the past few years. The drug use has been steady or dropped over the past few years and numbers show more teens are making the right choices to say no to drugs. It is common that peer pressure is a factor of drug use in teens. Throughout my research paper I will go over many of the factors that pressure teens into using drugs. The first
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Teenagers use drugs? Young people try drugs for many reasons including relaxation‚ socializing‚ curiosity or peer pressure. Alcohol‚ tobacco and cannabis are the most commonly used drugs by teenagers. Around one in five teenagers have tried cannabis at least once. Parents can reduce the risk of drugs for their children with some strategies Some strategies to avoid children using drugs may be: * Model appropriate behavior such as drinking moderately‚ not smoking and not using illicit drugs.
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athletes use performance enhancing drugs‚ it gives them an unfair advantage‚ and it ruins the spirit of competition. Imagine the athlete that has been dreaming of playing collegiately or even advancing so far as to go to the Olympics and win a medal. This athlete may do whatever it takes to achieve their childhood dreams. “Most serious athletes will tell you that the competitive drive to win can be fierce”(Mayo Clinic Staff 1) and because of that “the use of performance-enhancing drugs has become
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