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    spacing.) Thesis: The abuse of alcohol and drugs can affect a person economically‚ psychologically‚ and physically. Topic Outline : I. Economical effects (Main idea) A. Alcohol (Sub-idea) 1. Cost of alcohol purchases (Detail of A) 2. Cost of DUIs (Detail of A) B. Drugs (Sub-point) 1. Cost of drug purchases (Detail of B) 2. Cost of drug arrest (Detail of B) II. Psychological effects A. Alcohol 1. Mental impairment 2. Mental addiction B. Drugs 1. Mental impairment

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    discuss is drugs‚ around 38‚000 people in just 2010 died of drug overdoses just in America. One very crazy thing is‚ in 2006 there was over 8‚000 people died from cocaine in America. In 2011 over 17‚000 people died of taking to many painkillers. In 2013 over 9‚000 people died from heroin in just America‚ how crazy is it that so many people are dying from this stuff. Over 25‚000 people in America died from the overdose of prescription drugs in just 2014! We need to fix this huge problem facing America

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    Drug addiction cannot be cured if the fear of not consuming drugs is greater than the willpower to quit doing drugs.”- Dr T.P.Chia . Johan J. Goldstein can be compared to this quote by giving the drugs to the addicts because it is safer for society. His arguments show the Emotional‚ Ethical and Rational appeal in order to capture our attention. He starts off with an ethical engaging story about how the detectives caught forty nine men and forty three of them were narcotics addicts. It is plausible

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    1.0 Topic and Chosen aspect Drug abuse among teenagers is the chosen aspect for this report. Drug abuse is defined as the excessive use of drugs without medicine justification. It is reported that 50% of teenagers have abused a drug of some kind (Teendrugrehabs n.d.). 1.1 Critical evaluation of findings One of the main factors of drug abuse among teenagers is due to peer pressure. Based on statistics 80% of teenagers are affected by peer pressure (Wallace 2011). Wanting to be accepted by their

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    Drug Abuse Intervention

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    report that Drug Abuse Intervention programs are becoming more enlightened. It wasn’t all that long ago that drug use was widely stigmatized as largely a character defect or moral failing. However‚ new attitudes are emerging that recognize more complex underpinnings‚ such as can be seen in a guide for a medically supervised detox. At the point where the above guide describes the evaluation process‚ it indicates that it is now common to look for "co-occurring mental and physical conditions that may

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    Unemployment Problem.

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    Unemployment Problem In Bangladesh Bibliography There are no sources in the current document. Unemployment means want of work. A man is said to be unemployed if he has no work to do. In our country it is not easy to get a job. Thousands of our people are passing their days without work. The causes of unemployment are many. The growth of population in our country is very high while opportunities of work are limited. Our country is industrially backward and cottage industries have almost decayed

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    Protective and risk factors behaviours of young people related to drug use. My health issue is drug use. Young teenagers goes through the phase of adolescence when they have to start making decisions relating to themselves and their health too. Sometimes this procedure of making decisions can be hard for them as there are protective and risk behaviours associated with it which they might or might not be aware of it and ignore it as most of the people do. Protective behaviours are those

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    Drug Abuse. Article

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    Article Drug Abuse: The excessive and unregulated use of drugs which is popularly called drug abuse or drug addiction has emerged as a major social problem recently and has crossed the border of caste‚ class‚ creed‚ sex and nation. Drug Abuse is one of the banes of modern society. It has hit all regions and all sections of our society. It is found in rural and urban areas‚ among poor and the rich‚ among the men and women. But it is most overwhelmingly practiced by young boys and girls in hostels

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    Prevention of Drug Abuse

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    Drug abuse Compulsive‚ excessive‚ and self-damaging use of habit forming drugs or substances‚ leading to addiction ordependence‚ serious physiological injury (such as damageto kidneys‚ liver‚ heart) and/or psychological harm (such asdysfunctional behavior patterns‚ hallucinations‚ memoryloss)‚ or death. Also called substance abuse. Drug 1. Natural or synthetic substance which (when taken into a living body) affects its functioning or structure‚ and is used in the diagnosis‚ mitigation‚ treatment

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    most kids start‚ because my friends were all doing drugs. My drug abuse started really getting bad at about fourteen years of age. At 14‚ I was using marijuana about three times a day and I was using LSD at least once every two days. By the time I was 17‚ I was no longer using marijuana and LSD. I had moved on to harder and more destructive drugs. I was using amphetamines and cocaine on a daily basis by the age of 17 years of age. I was abusing drugs behind my family’s backs for years. I stayed clean

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