Prescription drug abuse is a fast-growing‚ nation-wide epidemic in the United States. Although millions of Americans receive medically prescribed drugs for their illnesses‚ which is considered legitimate usage‚ abusing prescription drugs means either a) someone is taking prescription medication that were not prescribed to them or b) someone is taking prescription drugs in a manner the drug was not intended for or is taking too much of the recommended doses. Common examples of such abusive behavior
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of Bernard’s The Good-Provider Role: It’s Rise and Fall 2010 Khedra E. Fields-Barclay SCOI 316: Marriage & Family 2/1/2010 An Abstract of Bernard’s The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall Jessie Bernard’s‚ The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall‚ surprisingly begins with a reference to Psalm 23 and then pivots into the Israelites journey from Egypt to Canaan‚ thus depicting God as the original good provider. Subsequently the role of the second “great provider” was fulfilled by the
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humans. This challenging task is morally wrong and should not be stood for. However‚ some people seem not to realize the negative aspects that cloning would bring into a world which is already nuisance. We cannot deny that cloning may help in saving one’s life or making someone’s life better but will it cause nuisance to the society with the misuse of the cloning process? First of all‚ the advantage of cloning is this process provide organs for transplantation where if vital organ in human
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Standard of Care as a Health Provider Elena Basques Grand Canyon University September 17‚ 2012 Abstract In the health care field an understanding of an array of religions is needed to provide care an adequate standard of care to patients. In the religious beliefs of Christianity‚ Scientology‚ and Sikhism there is great diversity in their practices; however‚ there is a uniting factor in love. Though a religious view of a provider may be different from the patients the provider will still deliver
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‘Effect of lifestyle of the youth on their health’ To study the effect of lifestyle of the youth on their health Objective : The study is focused on bringing a direct relationship between an individual’s life style and it’s effect on their health. For this Research we concentrated on the age group between 18 & 35 where a disordered lifestyle pattern can be observed. Abstract: Life style determines one’s attitude towards life. It even reflects your personality and
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Problem: Prescription drug abuse is any use of prescription medications in a way that is not intended by the prescribing medical professional. Prescription drug abuse and misuse involves taking shared medication‚ as well as over consumption of medications in order to experience elicited feelings. Inappropriate or excessive drug use may become compulsive and ongoing despite negative consequences (https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/prescription-drugs/what-prescription-drug-abuse)
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“A recent study shows that 25 percent of adult patients who were convinced to see a doctor after seeing an ad were diagnosed with a medical condition.” (Tauzin‚ president and CEO of PHRMA). This is stating that prescription drug ads help people be aware of diseases that are unfamiliar. Although some of these commercials ads are banned in other countries‚ the countries they aren’t they save a lot of lives. People may think these commercial ads create a lot of controversy because some may think they
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In United States‚ we have a major problem with the addiction of prescription drugs. “Prescription drugs are playing an increasingly larger role in U.S. life‚ with nearly half of all Americans taking one or more medications” (Thompson 2013-2014). “Since I went to pharmacy school‚ I learned Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) and FDA rules and regulation which made me wonder about how and why misuse and abuse of prescription drugs costs the country an estimated of $53.4 billion‚ which is very
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In Thomas Nagel’s essay titled “The Objective Basis of Morality”‚ Nagel claims that “[t]he basis of morality is a belief that good and harm to particular people (or animals) is good or bad not just from their point of view‚ but from a more general point of view‚ which every thinking person can understand” (Nagel 124). When applying this theory to the immorality of the price of higher education‚ it can be argued that making college so expensive is immoral because any thinking person can see it is
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The Rate of Young Accidental Overdoses have Recently Increased Because Prescription Medication Abuse is Now on the Rise. Why are prescription medications quickly becoming the most abused drug throughout today’s youth. Dr. Nora D. Volkow‚ director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ estimates that forty eight million people misuse prescribed medicine. That is about twenty percent of the United States population (1). Maybe because these medications are fairly easy to posses‚ no matter of
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