REEARCH PAPER ON DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN KENYA ABSTRACT Drug and Substance abuse is recognized globally as the greatest impediment to sanity of our social fabric‚ the greatest health risk and also it is touted to be one of the biggest derailments to our Economic growth. With all the misgivings associated with this menace‚ the international community; to which Kenya is a member resolved to tackle the issue
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Does Peer Influence Have an Effect on First Time Drug Use? Abstract: My research question is; does peer influence have an effect on first time drug use? To do my research I created a survey that would determine if peer pressure had an effect on first time drug use. I have always been curious about people who are addicted to various drugs. Everyone just sees a junky‚ or an alcoholic‚ I want to know why. Why they chose to try it in the first place. In my paper I will be focusing on college students
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Drug Abuse is a serious issue affecting all sections of the society‚ Irrespective whether they are Young/Old‚ Poor/Rich‚ and Educated/Illiterate. To really understand the gravity of the situation one needs to understand a few very important points;- what actually is Drug-Abuse? As I understand a very simple definition of Drug abuse is that it means use of drugs for the purpose for which it is not meant to be used (in other words use of drugs not for treating ailments but to satisfy vicarious
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daughter that overdosed on drugs after she claimed she wouldn’t do anything stupid. Unfortunately‚ drug usage is common among the youth of today’s society. Many parents disregard this fact with the belief their teenager does not involve himself or herself with such a deteriorating substance. With over sixty percent of teenagers reporting that drugs are at their school‚ parents should monitor their teenagers for them because of health risks‚ addiction‚ and social issues. As drugs become a growing aspect
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The Federal Agency I am choosing is Food and Drug Administration or FDA for short. The FDA is a Federal Agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This Federal Agency is part of the Executive Departments. This Administration was founded on June 30‚ 1906 and the founders were Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley. Some of the Subsidiaries are Center for Drug Evaluation and Research‚Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition‚ and National Center for Toxicological
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Performance-Enhancing Drugs are Taking over Sports The article "Doping in Sports: Steroids and Supplements" says “The word dope comes from the Dutch word dop‚ which is an alcoholic beverage made from grape skins that the Zulu warriors would think it could enhance their fighting ability.” (World Almanac and Book of Facts’ n.pag.). Unfortunately‚ they were wrong because when there was a fight between the athletes‚ one drank it and the other one didn’t‚ it ended up that the athlete that did not drink
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I. What is the understanding of drug use and drug abuse? A. Drug abuse is the use of illegal drugs or the misuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs. 1. Many people use drugs in order to escape physical and emotional discomfort. 2. People who use and abuse illegal drugs are people who do not want to face life. Instead of learning how to deal with their stress and anxiety‚ they choose to try to hide by taking mind-altering substances. B. Millions of Americans also
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IN THE DRUG WAR - EDUCATION IS THE BEST WEAPON It seems that in the ongoing debate over whether to legalize drugs in the United States‚ quite a few people feel that legalization would diminish the crime rate. Their argument points out that the permissible use of marijuana would eliminate the necessity for people to go into hard drug territories to purchase such a drug and maybe even deter them from trying narcotics like crack-cocaine and heroin. War on Drugs Have we lost the War on Drugs? The War
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of drugs and alcohol. But before trying to understand why is drug abuse such an appealing source among the youth‚ it is important to know what is substance abuse itself. “Substance Abuse” ‚ also commonly known as “Drug Abuse”‚ is a patterned use of a substance such as -drugs‚ in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods neither approved nor supervised by medical professionals. It refers to the harmful use of psychoactive substances including alcohol and illicit drugs. People
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Illegal drugs in the United States has created a huge black market industry. According to the International Business Times (2013)‚ an estimated $200-$750 billion a year in size‚ with the current decade seeing the largest per person drug usage per year in American history ("Drug Trafficking by the Numbers‚" n.d.). Drug trafficking involves the trade of illegal drugs through a well-structured network and imported and exported to different corners of the world. According to a report by United Nations
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