Drug Addiction is an awful subject that is sweeping through America like an air-born disease. There are many different forms of addiction and a plethora of drugs to become addicted to. Drug addiction is responsible for one in four deaths in preventable ... life but in drug addiction the user chooses to incorporate this into their life. There are only a few cases in which the user does not choose to acquire the disease and an example of this would be being born with the disease. Choosing to be addicted to a drug sounds like an awful thing to do yet ... over time challenge an addicted person's...

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... sleep, and provides intense feelings of pleasure. Cocaine's short-term effects appear soon after a single dose. Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette or in a pipe or a bong. If you have a job and you are selected for a urine test marijuana will show up. The short-term effects of marijuana include problems with memory and learning, distorted perception, loss of coordination, increased heart rate and ... should be illegal. Tobacco contains nicotine, an addictive drug that makes it very difficult for users to quit. One out of every three smokers dies from tobacco related disease. The ...

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... associated with motor vehicle crashes, homicides, suicides and drowning --leading causes of death among youth. Long-term heavy drinking can lead to heart disease, cancer, alcohol-related liver disease, and pancreatitis. Alcohol use during pregnancy is known to cause fetal alcohol syndrome, a leading cause of preventable mental retardation. Cigarette smoking is ... much. As we all know the media has a major roll in society. The media influences styles of clothes, music, and even such things as what people perceive as "cool." Today's media have a larger effect on the youth. When teens see...

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... become addicted to. Some factors that may influence whether or not the drug is addicting are how fast it takes effect, how the drug made you feel, how long the feeling lasts, and what kinds of withdrawals occur when you no longer take the drug. Let's begin with our most legal drugs today, Alcohol and tobacco cigarettes. According to Web M.D., a reputable medical website, Nearly ... diseases that can be prevented. Every year more than one million Americans become smokers and four hundred thousand die. Smoking increases chances of lung cancer, cancers associated with smoking, heart diseas...

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... " are set up in known high volume drug areas as well as any area where space is available. IV drug users are able to make these exchanges without fear of repercussions for their drug use. Inside most of these centers are counselors who are available for addicts to talk to, referrals to in-patient drug treatment centers and referrals to methadone clinics* (1). What you will ... not find are police, people that are condescending or judgmental and anyone that would force their personal views upon the drug user. From an ... economical view, the NEPs assist in lowering the health care expens...

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... the ridiculous and so called war. Just as the government can not force Americans to not eat too much cholesterol because it leads to heart disease, the government should not hold a drug control policy over Americans as well. The role of the government is not to be a patriarchal ... to a potentially laced drug on the street. This obsession for a drug free society does nothing but create corruption, crime, and disease, and America, whose principals are based on freedom and whose freedom depends on our civil liberties being ensured, has failed its public because of this war which is ... r...

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... diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. Canada as a country has a duty to reduce the harm and protect them and that is exactly what they did. Vancouver in the 1990s had high rates of overdose deaths and that led to the making of the first safe injection site in North ... America. The safe injection site, InSite was placed in Downtown Eastside, a community where you can get any kind of drug for cheap. The area around it is also filled with low cost housing, an enormous amount of homeless people and ... risk of getting AIDS. One of the biggest diseases resulting from injection drugs is...

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... factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial (NCADD)." It's effects on an individual are an indescribable, harsh, reality of what one drug can do to an individual. ... accept blame for someone else's behavior, have an attitude that makes the alcohoic think that they are less than oneself, use the "if you loved me you would stop...

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... tries hard to conceal their problem, so this is one barrier to diagnosing a problem. There are ways that you can spot someone with a problem though. Subtle changes such as weight loss, decline in personal hygiene, and deteriorating appearance are the first indicators that there is a problem (Danis 6). There are more obvious clues as well that can be easily spotted. These may include slurred speech ... . The Kentucky Peer Assistance Program for Nurses, Inc. (KPAPN) states that "all efforts should be made to provide these nurses with the health care resources that are required to stop the ...

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... almost every type of sport there is one form or another of performance enhancing drugs. Some of the most common sports you will find them in are power/strength sports and endurance sports. Athletes may come up with the strangest ways of using the drugs that can sometimes ... disease. Females are exposed to growth of body and facial hair and they are also liable to contract deepening of the voice. Gaining that little bit of competitiveness can lead to greater increases in performance. Steroids increase muscle mass and strength which helps athletes recover quicker from injuries. The most co...

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... be. While people think it is great smoking, getting high, forgetting their problems, or even doing it just because their friends are, they do not realize the negative effects. Many times people only see the surface of what the drug does to you. They do not see why it is such a big deal. Upon telling people they should not smoke, their response is ... because it increases their appetite. The authors from the article "Medical Marijuana: Clearing Away the Smoke " also wrote: "Anorexia, early satiety, weight loss and cachexia are prevalent in late stage cancer and advanced HIV disease, but ...

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... government be saving millions of dollars but thousands of sick and dieing individuals will have it available for medical use. Introduction I. How many of you have ever smoked weed? According to the 1998 National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse survey 55% of graduating high school seniors have tried ... it at least once. II. How many of you have friends or relatives suffering from AIDS, glaucoma, or cancer? Image how much legalization would help these people in relaxing their symptoms and ... researchers report that marijuana is effective in lowering internal eye pressure associ...

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... government be saving millions of dollars but thousands of sick and dieing individuals will have it available for medical use. Introduction I. How many of you have ever smoked weed? According to the 1998 National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse survey 55% of graduating high school seniors have tried ... it at least once. II. How many of you have friends or relatives suffering from AIDS, glaucoma, or cancer? Image how much legalization would help these people in relaxing their symptoms and ... researchers report that marijuana is effective in lowering internal eye pressure associ...

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... knows how many violent crimes these inmates commented without ever being caught. According to a report from the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Californians" much heralded "three strikes you"re out", twice as many people have been imprisoned for marijuana offenses compared to murdering, raping, and kidnapping combined (Schlosser 92).5 Newt Gingrich introduced legislation demanding either a life ... States. Cancer: Marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite caused by chemotherapy treatment. AIDS: Marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite ...

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... since regulations were placed on drugs in 1906. Some believe that legalization would be the best way to fight the drug problem. That it would reduce the disease, violence and crime associated with the use of illegal drugs. In my opinion, legalization is not the answer. Making drugs legal would set America at a moral ... that may have prevented this tragedy. Some of the decisions my cousin made for himself were not the best. The abuse he put on his body is partially what caused it to fail. If only he would have taken care of himself more. If only someone would have stepped in and got him ...

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... didn't really become addicted to opium until some years later, I feel there is a lot not being shared. De Quincy says he is a very secretive man. "You will think, perhaps, that I am too confidential and communicative of my own private history"(De Quincy, Confessions 84) This explains a lot, it is quite possible the ... of morphine which dulled his ill needed pains it can also cause harm. "Opium addicts in otherwise good physical and mental health whose drug needs are met are thought to experience no debilitating physiological effects from their addiction, although there is some evidence t...

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... of the seventeenth century, small plots of tobacco had become large plantations. Today we have discovered what elements make up tobacco. There are thousands of things in tobacco; the most important of these are tar, carbon monoxide, and nicotine. Tar is only delivered by smoking tobacco; chewing tobacco and snuff ... using coca for many things. Cocaine was widely used as a local anesthetic during surgery. Cocaine was also used as a cure for "nervous" disease. Cocaine was even used to treat people's allergies. When snorted cocaine clears the sinuses and thought. When cocaine is absorbed i...

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... being involved in normal daily activities because they don't feel the same amount of pleasure any more (Bender 46). There is no absolute theory about what causes addiction. Some people argue "addiction is an inherited disease, and that the individual is permanently ill at a genetic level, even with those experiencing long periods of sobriety". Another theory is that "addiction ... , depression, shakiness, inability to sleep, and irritability. Drinking alcohol brings back the equilibrium (Henderson 52). Many people think they are only social drinkers but in actuality they are alcoholics. ...

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... one have a substance abuse problem, this article can give you sound advice on understanding what substance abuse is, and what to do about it. In this article, we will refer to alcohol, although the word drug may be used synonymously in place of alcohol. What is Alcoholism? Alcoholism is a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and ... manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the ... hold if I am actually p...

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... , religion, and social class. Psychologists and other specialists have tried to figure out what can be done to stop this horrible condition, but until they find and pinpoint the causes, it can't be done. Professionals who study child abuse have ultimately found that the causes of this social disease are economic/financial difficulties, teenage/unwanted pregnancy, lack of education, and previous abuse. Although ... Hayes B1+). For those abused children who grow up and have their own children, they mostly go on what examples their parents set for them on how to discipline and care for a ch...

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... pot as a religious sacrament. Smoking the holy herb was "to help one understand God's nature."(Knipe 165.) Today pot has become even more socially accepted, you can see it displayed on TV, in the news, on the radio, and all over the internet. With all this publicizing of marijuana, is it because ... answer I looked at the health issues that have been brought up about pot. For this question I referred to my source "Is Pot Good for you?" an article in Time magazine. Time's articles were based on the new initiative in Nevada that is trying to fully legalize the marijuana. It told the ... ma...

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... own bodies. The main reason that someone could do something like that to himself or herself is out of pure curiosity. You may see other people using the drugs or drinking alcohol and seeing what a great time they"re having, you may wonder what it is like to feel like that too. Peer pressure also plays a big role in how come people use psychoactive ... and recovering from using the drug. If the drug starts to become all you do and all you think about you defiantly have a problem. You also may start to give up important activities so that you can use or you may call in sick from work beca...

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... cause many harmful effects. There has never been a major test though. The ones they've used have shown very different things. I have been very surprised by what I have been reading. I cannot believe the difference in what different scientists think. One says, "It's hard to know for sure whether regular marijuana use causes cancer. But it is known that marijuana contains some of ... can produce symptoms of psychosis in susceptible people. And, it says, there is evidence that chronic cannabis smoking "may be a contributory cause of cancers of the aerodigestive tract". Well I wonder what t...

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Drugs and Their Effects What Are Drugs? Drugs are chemicals that change the way our bodies work. Cigarettes and alcohol are drugs, which are legal. Other kinds of drugs are dangerous all the time. These are drugs that aren't given by doctors. Most of them are illegal and include substances like ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine, LSD, and heroin. Why Are Drugs Bad for You? Drugs kill your brain cells. ... track of time; impaired or reduced short-term memory Reduced ability to perform tasks requiring concentration and coordination Increased heart rate Potential cardiac dangers for those with preexis...

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... , so he relied on the one thing that would always be there for him, alcohol. Alcoholism is a disease that can just grab you and for some never let them go. That is exactly what happened to Uncle Doughty. Once he started drinking his life got worse and worse till the only thing to ... person was taken. According to the population health division it is a known fact that substance abuse doesn't only affect the user. "The cold hard facts are that drugs [substance abuse] affect everyone in our community, either directly through family, friends and workmates who have used them, through to the ...

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