the first team‚ representative side or a sporting scholarship at a Greater Public Schools (GPS) which then could lead to the opportunity to make a break into the professional sporting teams. With the increase of drug use young players start thinking that taking performance enhancing drugs is necessary to ‘make it’. The competition in sports is so fierce it amounts to a huge build up on players and teams to perform‚ including the pressure from big business asking for ‘more’ because the more the players
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Factors of Drugs Abuse Family Family History * Parents are the main and first influencer in most of our life. Most of the things we learnt are from home. Hence‚ we will easily influence by their attitudes‚ routines‚ and even needs. If our parents have drug addiction or are drug dependant‚ we as their children are likely to have the addiction too. Drugs addiction can be passed from one generation to another. Lack of Parental Supervision / Communication * Love‚ supervision‚ teaching and
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Contextual Conditioning of Drug Tolerance and Drug Addiction Research on the contextual conditioning of drug tolerance shows it is an important factor in understanding drug addiction in humans. Context is a way of noting that the likelihood of a behavior or response depends on certain conditions. Contextual conditioning is said to occur when a person becomes conditioned not only to the drug but also to the environmental circumstances or cues in which the drug is taken. Studies have shown that tolerance
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“I knew from their snow white bellies and pretty voices they were magpies‚ birds of joy.” An Mei’s mom (243). Magpies are one of the many symbols used in the book The Joy Luck Club. Magpies were used to symbolize how some people’s joy comes from others sorrow. Double meaning and presentations of simple life situations are used as symbols throughout the book. Similar to magpies is the wind. Attacking without warning strong fast not being seen‚ the wind has the art of invisible strength. Resembling
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Do people ever think about the consequences about drug abuse? Not many of us do but we all know what it does to us. Drugs are harmful to the brain and the body system itself; they affect the heart in many ways and because of that people become unconscious as to what their actions are. They do not realize how badly they can harm the community around them. Drugs are normally used by those who are not involved in activities such as‚ religious clubs‚ sports‚ etc. The users are normally stressed out
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The War on Drugs‚ a collective term for the series of federal anti-drug efforts run by the United States government‚ attempted to significantly reduce the import‚ manufacture‚ sale‚ and use of illegal drugs and narcotics (Head‚ 1). Regardless of the intention‚ the four-decade long legal movement left a staggering amount of political and social unrest‚ such as the monetary costs for the efforts‚ the harsh laws associated with drug possession‚ and the inflated penalties for relatively low-end crimes
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The Impact of Drugs on Society Drugs have effects on society in many different ways. The negative consequences of drug abuse affect not only individuals who abuse drugs but also their families and friends‚ various businesses‚ and government resources. The ONDCP (2202) discusses the effects of drug abuse. “Although many of these affects cannot be quantified‚ ONDCP reported that in 2002‚ the economic cost of drug abuse to the United States was $180.9 billion.”(www.usdoj.gov ) Devastating
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Psychoactive Drug Psychoactive drugs are everywhere in society today. Not all of these drugs are illegal but they do affect you mentally and physically. For example‚ some of these drugs are used every day by a vast amount of people. The most well-known psychoactive drugs are “tobacco‚ alcohol‚ and caffeine”; some of the drugs that are not as widely used are “marijuana‚ mescaline‚ opium‚ and cocaine.” (168). Psychoactive drugs are‚ ‘”drugs capable of influencing perception‚ mood‚ cognition‚ or behavior
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DRUGS - YES OR NO Drugs are a problem of the twentieth century‚ although they have been used by our ancestors hundreds of years ago. They have come to European countries mostly from Indian and Asian tribes‚ and because they were pronounced illegal‚ a whole new way of making money has been created: selling drugs. Personally I am against taking drugs. I have seen their consequences and that is the main reason for my opinion of them. I do not mind the legal drugs - such as nicotine or caffeine
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Throughout America’s music history‚ the use and abuse of illegal drugs has been widespread‚ and some great musicians’ lives have been utterly devistated and ruined by drugs. Often times it seems as though‚ in studying their histories‚ many musicians are falsely led to believe that if they use certain drugs‚ their playing will improve‚ or become more creative. Many great musician’s lives have been tragicly cut short because of their drug use‚ and God only knows where some of them would be today had they
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