The use of and abuse of illegal and prescription drugs are a health‚ social‚ and law enforcement problem that is affecting Americans across the country. Drug abuse is destroying the lives of many teens and adults and is also destroying families in the United States. The use of drugs is a major problem in the United States among all Americans‚ but drug addiction is the main cause for America ’s troubled teens today. Exactly what is a drug? A drug is any chemical that produces a therapeutic or non-therapeutic
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Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking every year. It is an exercise undertaken by the world community to sensitize the people in general and the youth in particular‚ to the menace of drugs. The picture is grim if the world statistics on the drugs scenario is taken into account. With a turnover of around $500 billions‚ it is the third largest business in the world‚ next to petroleum and arms trade. About 190 million people all over the world consume one drug or the other. Drug addiction causes
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Drug Trafficking in the U.S By Eng122 Instructor Amy Morris 11/19/2012 Drug Trafficking in the U.S Drug trafficking is an increasingly growing problem in the country today; more people are buying‚ selling and using drugs than ever before. There are those people who think it is a fast and easy way to get money‚ not knowing all the risks or knowing and not caring. This paper will cover drug trafficking in the U.S and what steps are being taking towards our war on drugs. This paper will
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Prescription drugs and Street drugs By Checeba Lawton Date: 09/15/2012 Gail McElroy Prescription drugs and street drugs that are destroying the world and the problem are increasing each year. More individuals that are realizing that they are becoming addicts. What can society do about this situation?
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1. Drugs mess with your mind Drug use can cause you to lose your ability to remember things‚ to think clearly and to study properly. Drug use gives you the impression that you are more alert and aware‚ but under the influence of drugs you are actually less aware‚ and less alert. Drug use can also cause people to act in strange unpredictable ways. A person can undergo a complete personality change when under the influence of drugs. Since drug residues can remain in the body for many years after they
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Teenagers and Drugs What is a Drug? A drug is any substance (with the exception of food and water) which‚ when taken into the body‚ alters the body’s function either physically and/or psychologically. Drugs may be legal or illegal and this are described as marijuana‚ hashish‚ cocaine (including crack)‚ heroin‚ hallucinogens‚ inhalants‚ and prescription drugs that are not used for medical purposes. Nowadays drugs are everywhere and it’s becoming more and more used. Drugs are common in teens and
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Islam and Drugs O You who believe! Intoxicants and gambling‚ (dedication of) stones and (divination by) arrows are an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. Avoid (such abominations) that you may prosper. (5:90) Today’s youth has been taken on the toll of increased drug-usage‚ and this includes the young Muslims too. More Muslim youth is caught up in drugs than we wish to know. Drug use among Muslims is a creeping enemy that involves the abuse of substances ranging from the inhaling of household
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Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease which causes obsessive drug seeking and use even though they’re aware of the damage it causes to their family and themselves. The drug seeking becomes compulsive mainly by the effect the prolonged drug use has on behavior and the brain. Drugs have a huge effect on the human brain. They alter they way you think and act. The chemicals in drugs enter your communication system in the brain and change or disrupt the way your brain can send‚ receive
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HOW DRUGS ARE STORED ON THE WARD All drugs are potentially dangerous and all must be stored in a specially designed‚ secure area or space on a building in order to avoid contamination or deterioration‚ disfiguration of labels‚ maintain integrity of packaging and so guarantee quality and potency of drugs during shelf life‚ to prevent or reduce pilferage‚ theft or losses and also prevent infestation of pests and venom. Drugs must be stored in locked cupboards reserved specifically for such medicines
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The allure of drugs is one that many people cannot resist. We all know someone who has been affected by drug addiction. It may be a teenager at school who is using marijuana for the first time or a friend you know who has become addicted to meth. Whatever the circumstance‚ there are many things you can do to help someone sober up from drug addiction. Teens are under a lot of pressure to try drugs whether it comes from their curiosity their friends and peers or television and movies. They are also
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