Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study A prescription drug is a medication that can be purchased or given out only with written instructions from a licensed healthcare provider‚ such as a doctor‚ dentist‚ nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant‚ to a pharmacist. These written instructions are known as a prescription. However‚ prescription drugs can also cause bad effects by abusing it; for example‚ by taking a friend’s or relative’s prescription to get high‚ to treat pain‚ or because
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Health Drug Essay Auni Amaram 8G Narcotic (painkillers) As usual people take medicine from their doctor for prescription. According to my research that I found‚ 20% of people in United States have used prescription drug for nonmedical reasons. One of the well-known medicine that were used for nonmedical reason was called the narcotic. It also known as painkillers. There is different kinds of narcotic such as morphine‚ heroin‚ codeine‚ opium‚ hydrocodone‚ oxycodone‚ meperidine‚and methadone
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known to many as drug abuse is the recurrent us of a substance referred to as a drug whereby the user consumes the substance in quantities or methods neither approved nor advised by the required professionals i.e doctors and this definition also applies when certain activities are performed using the substances contrary to the policies and rules that govern their (drugs) originally intended use. In addition to there being many drugs already on the global market ‚the commonly abused drugs may most at
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People use drugs to help‚ some choose to abuse them. This is what leads to crime‚ and it affects our kids and society. The increasing phenomenon of drug abuse in society impacts American society in ways that economically cost society almost $100 billion a year. Illegal drug use has to stop! It hurts the society‚ it hurts us‚ and mainly‚ it hurts the user. Drug users feed of society’s money‚ insurance‚ and taxes. If we let this behavior continue the crime rate will shoot sky high. Drug use has
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Skye Thomas Jeffrey Larsen English 101 13 December 2012 Illicit Drugs: Effects One and All The world is full of addiction. “Addiction is when you can give up something at any time‚ as long as it’s next Tuesday.” (Sixx) This seems reasonable to many individuals‚ and some have a tendency to get involved with LSD (Acid‚ Purple Haze‚ Trip‚ One Way)‚ Heroin (Smack‚ Brown Sugar‚ Black Pearl‚ Scat)‚ MDMA (Ecstasy‚ Tic Tac Candy
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Discuss the effect drugs have had on Modern International Sports Events such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games Due to the high standards‚ professionalism and interest in high profile sporting events such as the Olympics‚ the Commonwealth games and Tour De France‚ some participants would take great risks‚ both legal and illegal to try and win the event‚ without knowing the consequences and side-effects of these risks. For example‚ some of the athletes taking part in these events went as
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Drug Use: Cause and Effect You hear about more and more people using drugs these days‚ particularly prescription drugs. Doctors may prescribe these drugs to you and you may think they are helping but‚ what you don’t know is how they may change a normal functioning person into an addict. These drugs are habit forming and can seriously harm you‚ even kill you. For Years people go to the doctor for one reason or another. Some doctors prescribe pills that can sometimes be more damaging than helpful
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pollution because toxic waste tend to be placed in their communities. Not only that‚ pollution creating factories also tend to be placed in the same communities. Environmental racism is something that effect black‚ low-income people in particular‚ the different effects the toxins have on communities‚ and started a long time ago but continues to this day. But yet‚ the white rich people is not being affected by the toxics in their communities. The text states that ‘’separate residential limits or districts
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Intro A community can be viewed as a people that share common languages. Attributes and many other cultural similarities. Strong communities usually signify a unity or bond. This bond forms a sense of sense of self and "brotherhood". However‚ this does not appear to exist in the Black community. Slavery has nearly destroyed the existence of any unity. When the Africans were taken from African‚ different tribes were mixed together on the ships and stripped of their identities. The differences between
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Music and drugs have gone together hand-in-hand ever since the explosion of rock and roll on the American culture in the 1950’s. Since then‚ many gifted performers have succumbed to drug-induced deaths‚ which is why I feel that drugs negatively effected rock music. Many great pieces of art have been rumored to be created while under the influence of several drugs‚ or to be inspired by these drugs. Many artists over the years have used drugs as an excuse to escape their fame‚ and many have used
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