DRUGS AND THE EFFECT THEY HAVE ON OUR CHILDREN"S LIVES Criminal Justice Good health allows us to be strong, happy, smart and skillful as we can possibly be. ... While under the influence of these drugs we are more likely to endanger our life as well as somebody else's. ... Each day more than 3,000 kids begin smoking and one-third of them will probably have their lives shortened because of tobacco use. ... The boy's friends told his parents, who then took him to the hospital and was put on life-support systems immediately, but his condition didn't improve. ... We as adults...

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We watch the lives of the three main characters become undone by their various addictions, and the film shows how their lives are a free-fall into their own separate hells. All of the things that were once important in their lives are not, and they live their lives depending on the drugs that have taken over them. ... They see this plan as something that will make their lives perfect and problem free. ... Their plan to be happy and make a lot of money has clearly turned around to make their lives a living hell. ... As the characters" lives become more difficult, they turn to something th...

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Joe, for example, is a seventeen-year-old boy who lives with his mother and six sisters in a two-bedroom apartment. ... Joe lives in a corrupted neighborhood where violence and drugs are normal in everyday life. ... Joe begins to wish and fantasize for a better life and for happiness. ... Hence, if one lives in an upper-class environment, he or she is likely to be surrounded by people who have positive values, while a person who lives is poverty is likely to be encircled by drugs, violence, and no role models. ... If a person lives in a society where poverty is everywhere and his or her friend...

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Life was good. ... The group mindset portrayed it as something essential to everyday life. ... Imagine that our lives are at a crossroads at the moment. ... Gone are the old times where innocence and ignorance were a way of life. ... However smaller changes are always at work in our lives. ...

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While expericing the "unearned", teenagers should be able to absorb as much knowledge as they do in real life, thus they can apply it throughout their own lives. ... Same concept also applies to other aspects in life. ... Unearned experience makes one's life easier by preventing them from making serious mistakes and showing them the life ahead. ... Instead, such experiences leaves them space to think. /* too negative, a way of learning when watching tv. not addictive, experience life, study on only minor group of young people.*/ Hamill is wrong, when he says "television, like drug...

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Parents who drink alcohol and use either prescription or illegal addictive drugs destroy their families and ruin the lives of others. ... Just like with alcohol, cocaine and marijuana cause severe disruptions to normal family life. ... Later in life, these exposures can lead to behavioral problems as well attention disorders and hardships in academics. ... They think it's alright to destroy other lives, to be physically harmful, to have their children taken from them. Many may think foster care gives children better lives but in actuality, for some, their lives never change. ...

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In America's minefield of urban life, Lafayette and Pharaoh are surrounded by violence and poverty through their lives. ... The young lives have virtually no possibility for getting out of the ghetto or even just to grow up. ... They knew that it was an every day part of their life. ... At least prison would keep him off the street and hopefully save his life. ... While reading about the lives of these two boys, your heart breaks. ...

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In America's minefield of urban life, Lafayette and Pharaoh are surrounded by violence and poverty through their lives. ... The young lives have virtually no possibility for getting out of the ghetto or even just to grow up. ... They knew that it was an every day part of their life. ... At least prison would keep him off the street and hopefully save his life. ... While reading about the lives of these two boys, your heart breaks. ...

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Marijuana is a Harmful Drug Marijuana is an extremely harmful drug in which affects people's lives in drastic ways. ... At that point, marijuana was entirely taking over my life. ... Everything at that point in my life changed completely for me. ... That is when I began to realize this life-style was not that way I wanted to live. ... While under the influence, most people have such a great time, they forgot about their lives while not under the influence. ...

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Cherry by Mary Karr Intoxicants play various roles in the lives of adults and adolescents alike in the town of Leechfield. ... Substance abuse numbs the stress and bother that accompanies everyday life for these people. In a similar sense, drugs and alcohol are a very ordinary part of life for most teenagers in Leechfield. Most high school students use drugs to escape from the monotony of their dull lives, and possibly to evade the pain of each individual's family situation. ... All her life, Mary never felt that she was very well liked by her peers, except for the few intimate frie...

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Teenager's lives" are no easier than they were 20 years ago, in fact maybe even worse. ... The media portrays teenagers in this era as having a laid-back life-style with no goals and without any ambitions. ... The media portrays teenagers in this era as having a laid-back life-style with no goals and without any ambitions. The media influence societies to generalize that all teenagers are drug addicts and have an easy life when in reality our life is no easier than it was 20 years ago, in fact maybe even worse. ... Therefore, Teenager's lives" are no easier than they were 20 years ag...

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People abuse drugs for many different reasons and ruins a lot of people's lives. Abusing drugs ruins their social life, jobs and most importantly their bodies. Drugs can control your entire life and cause you to run it straight into the ground. ... Axelrod-Contrada said that alcohol is used to self medicate people with high stress lives and self medicated depression remedy. ... Luckily there are many hotlines established to help turn peoples' lives around. ...

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When he was drunk, he would call and tell me that my life goals were not good enough, and that I should consider other routes. ... We are under the impression that drugs are so bad, people should just quit them and go on with their lives like normal folk. ... Most addicts live their whole lives in pain and ruin, and never stop. Besides crushing families and relationships, addiction can also ruin a life financially. ... Addiction has ruined many lives. ...

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This is where the vicious cycle starts, the addict "lives to use and uses to live." Obtaining their drug is the most important thing in addict's mind and life. ... For some cases, it would be too late for them to realize that that they were already hooked with heroin and their lives are ruined. ...

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Spirituality in recovery necessitates addicted individuals to turn their lives and will over to the care of God or a higher power and allow God to return the individual to sanity. ... Spirituality can simply be looking deep into one's self and finding meaning in ones life. ... Spirituality allows the individual to view life in a different manor and live a healthier more enjoyable life. ... A feeling of religious commitment also has an impact on the lack of alcohol and drug use among those who have live spiritual lives (Dermantis et al, 1996). ... AA is not simply an addiction recove...

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In Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" two brothers try to live out their lives in the ghetto. ... Sonny tries to live his life as he wants but his brother tries to live his life as a provider for his family. They suffer, survive, and learn while trying to live out their life. ... The brothers come together when they are faced with terrifying experiences of their lives. ... Sonny's brother tries to teach his baby brother how to live his life. ...

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Clean and Sober Drug and Alcohol abuse can have a very damaging affect of people" lives. ... Two perfect examples of how drugs and alcohol have negative affects on people's lives are shown in the movie Clean and Sober. ... Drugs have a bad effect on people and can really ruin their lives. ... Charlie, one the other hand, lost her life. ...

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If constantly abused, alcohol can be even worse for one than taking illegal drugs (#5) Irresponsible drinking can destroy a person's life as well as the lives of those around them. ... In addition "about 7%" of all adults who consume alcohol in the United States today are considered alcoholics, or have suffered from some sort of drinking problem in their lives (Secretary of health viii). ... Additionally, a child who has an alcoholic parent is much more likely to become an alcoholic themselves later in life. ... Alcohol destroyed her family life with her losing her husband and children....

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Irresponsible drinking can destroy a person's life as well as the lives of those around them. ... In addition about 7%" of all adults who consume alcohol in the United States today are considered alcoholics, or have suffered from some sort of drinking problem in their lives (Secretary of health viii). ... Additionally, a child who has an alcoholic parent is much more likely to become an alcoholic themselves later in life. ... Alcohol destroyed her family life with her losing her husband and children. ... Anytime a person takes a drink, they are taking a risk that can change the way they ...

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Firstly they are curious and want to try something that will make their life happier and more attractive. ... They can have problems with normal life activities which never caused them difficulties when they weren`t addicted. ... If people who care about drug addicts" health and even lives combine forces they are more likely to succeed. ... This is the only way to save the addicted from the destruction of their lives. ...

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Eugene and his brother Jamie both lived their lives around bars and women, being numbed for only an occasion. ... Their lives revolve around denial. ... None of us can help the things life has done to us."" ... Unfortunately for Edmund, he is not a fish who lives in the ocean. ... No matter how much they blame everything on one another, the fact remains the same that none of them have control over their predestined lives: "We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us,"" (87). ...

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The use of marijuana among teenagers, although viewed as harmless, is actually very detrimental to their lives in many ways. ... "Drug abuse is a fact of life in the United States with an extremely negative impact on teenagers, who are more susceptible to addictive behavior and think less about the consequences of drug use."... Unfortunately this circle of crime has taken over many cities in this country and has destroyed or ended many young lives. ... (Godfrey 34) They have now not only put their life in danger but also the lives of others. ... The research given proves th...

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Everyone learns when they are young to "Just Say No," but not everyone remembers that when they are in a pressured situation that could change their life forever. ... I guess that it's a good thing because they don't have much to look forward to but a life of pain and suffering. ... Most of us will follow in our parent's footsteps, by this I mean our adult lives will closely resemble the lives we live as children, set by our parents" examples. ... My uncle chose the wrong path in life and got caught manufacturing meth. ... He lost his family and has nothing to show for hi...

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People, who repeatedly abuse drugs or drink as a way of escaping or dealing with life's pressures, do so because they can't cope. But why do we, in the land of the free, make the inability to productively cope with life a crime? ... As such, addiction, while not a crime, it is no more a treatable medical problem than are unemployment, lack of coping skills, or degraded communities and despairing lives. The only remedy for addiction is for more people to have the resources, values, and environments necessary for living productive lives. ... He is really trying hard to get his life...

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If it keeps up, they start to overlook what really matters in their lives at that age, like school and families. ... They ruin their lives and end up with no one caring. ... Drugs ruin your lives in more ways then one and eventually you will end up alone and without care. ... I think this way because it does affect my life and I think that it affects everyone else's as well. ... As for me, both alcohol and drugs affect my life and the people's lives around me. ...

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