...Gender abuse and addiction proposal Name Institution Course Tutor Date Gender abuse and addiction proposal Before, drinking of alcohol and abuse of other drugs was related to boys. Nowadays, girls are also caught in the statistics of drug abuse and alcoholism. The major problem is that the behaviour starts during the most sensitive stages of individual development and should be given a serious look. There are very many factors that influence alcoholism and drug abuse in both boys and girls. The factors include overall stress, peer influence, less supervision from the parents and even access to more spending money than usual and previous generations. However, the most crucial objective is to tackle the rapidly increasing rate of consumption and abuse. The best way to reduce such issues starts with self-awareness. This is because most people voluntarily start the behaviour and so they can voluntarily stop. If the appropriate approaches are implemented, it is possible to end gender abuse and addictions to drugs and alcohol (Green, 2006). Methodology The best way to tackle the challenge is to convince the victims to self-control and addition of several back up factors to ensure effectiveness. For boys and girls, the family has a great impact on substance use. Through supervision and parental attitudes, both genders find a link to drug abuse. Hence, the family plays a major role and should play a big role in monitoring the life of their children. This shows why there are fewer girls...
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...Substance Abuse among American Adolescents Control substance abuse is an excessive consumption or a disorder use of substances especially drugs or alcohol that is associated with significant problems. Substance abuse is a disease that commonly appears among adolescents. According to Kerby Anderson1, “93% percent of all teenagers have some experience with alcohol by the end of their senior year of high school. Almost two-thirds of all American young people try illicit drugs before they finish high school.” If substance abuse is left untreated, it will cause violence in streets, such as crimes, kidnaping. Also, it will cause domestic violence. For example, many babies are born with drug dependency. There are many basic factors that lead to the use of control substances among American adolescents, how these factors affect our community, and what are the methods used to minimize them. Adolescence is a sensitive period for young people. They are encountered by many basic factors. First of all, family factors, which have the strongest impact on adolescent development, play a part in the influence to try control substances. For example, parents who provide low levels of support, or are not as close to their children, and use bad parenting judgment have children who are more likely to be drug abusers. “The parents are the biggest factor in the choice to drink or drug” (Stephen Artrburn24). Other factors are the social pressure, such as friends and school these significant...
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...Alcohol abuse is a serious problem, driving while drunk or under the influence of drugs is an even bigger problem that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Abusing either one of these substances can lead to the death of you or the death of someone else or even cause a major change in their life like Jacqueline’s story, her whole life has been changed because of another person’s ignorance and carelessness. Therefore, you should know the facts about drug and alcohol abuse before you do something you may regret for the rest of your life. According TO NIDA FOR TEENS: THE SCIENCE BEHIND DRUG ABUSE, drugs are chemicals or substances that change the way our bodies work. Drugs find their way into your bloodstream, whether you ingest, inhale or inject them, they are then transported to parts of your brain. Weighing about three pounds, the brain is made of many parts that all work together as a team. Each part of your brain has a job to do. When drugs enter your brain, they can interrupt the work and actually change the way your brain performs its jobs. These changes in the brain are what lead to compulsive drug use, the hallmark of addiction. Alby, an eighteen year old teen who was residing in a maximum-security jail, ended up in jail because he began dealing drugs. HEADS UP: REAL NEWS ABOUT DRUGS AND YOUR BODY, recorded that it all started one summer day on a street corner in Yonkers, New York, when Alby was thirteen. One of his friends told him “You need to get your mind right. Hit this blunt”...
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...Where/how is this issue being tackled/intervened? The agency’s campaign aims to provide women the awareness that it is not safe to drink any alcoholic beverage, any amount or anytime during pregnancy. They formulated primary prevention strategies through communication and media such as advertisements through television, print and radio, e-campaigns and social networking. This provides information and advice to prevent and lessen harm brought by drinking alcohol (AlcoholNZ, 2015). The campaign also gives support to the woman who is struggling with alcohol use by creating a group with similar experience as the other person, they call it Peer support work or (PSW). The PSW model enhances clients’ self-efficacy and self-esteem and supports clients to engage with the wider community. They work together with pregnant women and parents of children under three years of age, regardless of custody issues, and who are poorly connected to health and social services (AlcoholNZ, 2015)....
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...Accessing Healthcare Area Substance Abuse Council (ASAC) Iowa Danielle Fisher HCA 430 Prof. Jon Lasell April 2nd, 2012 With the many different vulnerable populations out there in the United States, the one that needs the most look after are people with alcohol or substance abuse. With the way that some people live day to day, it is hard to keep track of people who need help in the areas of drug abuse. Where I live, in Cedar Rapids Iowa, there is the Area Substance Abuse Council (ASAC) that helps people receive substance abuse treatment services that they need. The services that they provide are substance abuse treatments and the halfway housing which helps monitor people with heavy drug abuse problems. The type of care that is provided at the ASAC is the following: residential short-term treatment, residential long-term treatment, outpatient, and partial hospitalization/day treatment. For the ASAC the strengths to the program are its ability to adapt to different cases of people with drug abuse problems seeking help needed for their situation. Among the many different things that they have for common drug users, there are also special programs and groups that are provided as well. Adolescents, persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, pregnant/postpartum women, women, residential beds for clients' children, DUI/DWI offenders, and criminal justice clients are all the special groups that can be found there. Not everyone who is dealing with the...
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...What new information did you learn? I really learned a lot about substance abuse in this course and also during my readings. I always looked at substance abuse as someone who just uses drugs to get high. I never really thought about it being a brain disease. According to NIDA, “Addiction is similar to chronic diseases” while observing the brain and the heart addiction and heart diseases produce observational changes in the function of human organs. While all this information wasn’t too new to me I just really never gave it any thought. I learned how people become addicted to drugs due to the drugs altering their Dopamine which is a brain chemical which also affects the neurons in the brain. I understand what Neurons are and how they communicate...
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...limbic system are amygdala and the hippocampus. They both play important roles in memory. The amygdala determines what memories are stored and where they are stored within the brain. This determination is based upon the response that is brought up during the memory. The hippocampus sends memories out to the correct parts of the brain, for long term storage of memories. The hippocampus is also responsible for recovering those memories when necessary. Motivation for Drug Use Drugs have the ability to literally change a person’s brain. Excessive drug use can shrink a hippocampus and bring about schizophrenia. It is not only the limbic system that gets affected, but also the cerebral cortex and even the brain stem. The motivation to abuse drugs starts with the pleasure signals that are located in the limbic system. Drug use evades all the five senses and goes straight to the reward and pleasure circuitry found in the limbic system and gives a...
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...Article Review: State Responses to Substance Abuse Among Pregnant Women Developmental Psychology For decades, American citizens and lawmakers alike have been arguing over the controversial issue of women's prenatal substance abuse. Considering that the public opinion for this matter varies across the nation, each state has their own set of laws on how to deal with the issue. Some states have made drug treatment more readily available for pregnant women with a history of drug abuse, while others have attempted to criminalize prenatal drug-use or use it as grounds to end custodial rights. “For many lawmakers, the issue comes downs to the difficult task of balancing a woman’s right to bodily integrity with society’s interest in ensuring healthy pregnancies, and the question of whether punitive approaches will foster - or hinder - health outcomes for women and children.” This report covers both the negative and positive approaches of state intervention to alleviating prenatal substance abuse and the alarming statistics regarding the relationship between prenatal drug-use and race. For advocates of women’s reproductive rights, they ask the question: “Can the state ever be justified in regulating a pregnant woman’s behavior in the interest of protecting her fetus and whether such policies potentially undermine the legality of abortion?” To date, no state has yet enacted a law that criminalizes drug-use during pregnancy. Nevertheless, hundreds of women have been arrested...
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...Guelph is a city with a population of 118,000 (City of Guelph, 2010) with agriculture and considered a safe city. But, what people don’t know is that Guelph is on the raise of having a community addicted to prescription pain killers, one in particular, Oxycodone. Narcotic pain relievers; Oxycodone, Morphine, and Dilaudid are surfacing on Guelph streets fast and Guelph police are trying to do everything they can to stop these drugs from destroying the streets of Guelph. “Approximately $70, 000 in drugs and cash has been seized as part of an ongoing effort to crack-down on the trafficking of prescription drugs in Guelph”(Project Scripts, 2010). This is a good sign that Guelph police are taking steps towards a safer city, and having special tactical teams that can crack-down on the trafficking of prescription drugs. If Guelph police can seize prescription drugs one bust at a time, it shows addicts and drug dealers that Guelph police are not going to let drugs destroy their city. Prescription drugs are a dangerous drug since they can be prescribed by doctors, people can get them from any corner drug store, and police can not arrest or seize drugs from a person if they have a prescription. Therefore, Guelph police involvement is critical in prescription drugs and its effect on people, spin off crimes due to prescribed drugs, and pharmacies/doctors being more aware of what they are prescribing. Prescription drugs also known as pain killers are on the raise to being known as the most...
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...promoting the emotional wellbeing, behavior, physical health and education of the youth. There are a variety of blueprint programs for child delinquency some are involved in reforming the delinquent after the crime has taken place and others before. The most effective juvenile blueprint programs are those that prevent the occurrence of child delinquency (Saminsky, 2010 p.2). The following essay talks about the Prevention and early intervention for young offenders. Early intervention to potential juvenile offenders prevents the onset of criminal behaviors as an adult, prevents young lives from being wasted and minimizes the burden of crime on the people of society. Prosecution and reform programs for juvenile offenders cost the taxpayers a lot of money (Saminsky, 2010 p.1). Community based intervention program. Children at Risk (CAR) intervention program which changed its name to Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse Striving Together to Achieving Rewarding Tomorrows (CASASTART) is a community based intervention program (Siegel & Welsh, 2011 p.462). The program was established to assist children with a high risk of delinquency, behavioral problems, substance abuse and gang involvement. The program was administered to children in poor neighborhoods with high crime rates. The measures used include after school activities, family training, case management, mentoring, and community policing, tutoring and family counselling (Siegel & Welsh, 2011 p.462). Community based intervention...
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...Healthy Concepts - Drug Abuse Cassandra J. Champion HCS-535 Monday, February 20, 2012 Cynthia Nelson Healthy Concepts - Drug Abuse Today’s economy is tough and many people face issues that they never thought they would face. Healthy Concepts is developing a program to assist alcohol and drug abusers. The choices that are made throughout a person’s life time can lead to so many path’s. The choices can be developed through education and assistance by the community. Drug abuse can affect any and all communities, it can breach any wall that is put up. According to "2011 National Drug Control Policy" (2011), "In 2007, the most recent year for which data are available, the economic impact of illicit drug use on American society totaled more than $193 billion.” (para.1) Also according to “2011 National Drug Control Policy” (2011), “Through efforts such as the Drug Free Communities (DFC) program, the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, and Strategic Prevention Framework-State Incentive Grants, ONDCP is helping to translate the concept of prevention into effective action at the local level”(para.1). HealthPeople.gov is just one tool that opens up nationally and locally to communties to assist in developing programs to prevent illict drug use and many other health aspects. Drug abuse and alcohol abuse have made a huge impact on families, society and costs the American society large amounts of money. Prescription drug use has become the drug of choice. Many doctors will...
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...(Attempting) to Prevent Drugs and Crime in a Drug and Crime Ridden Society We have all heard the stories in the news of a robbery or a murder, and the first order of business is to claim the perpetrator must be involved in a drug scheme. The saying usually goes like this “family must have been robbed for drug money” or “that family was killed because they lived in a nice house, it must have been a drug dealer.” Sometimes we find out that the crime was not even drug related, it happened to one of our own in society. However, to blame a crime on drugs has always seemed to be the quick fix to make a case quick, easy, and closed. The relationship between drug abuse and crime is complex. Not all individuals who use drugs become addicted, nor do they commit violent crime. Social and economic concerns, such as crime, illness, premature death, and significant loss in productivity are all affected by alcohol and drug abuse. Drug abuse is implicated in at least three types of drug-related offenses: (1) offenses defined by drug possession or sales, (2) offenses directly related to drug abuse (e.g., stealing to get money for drugs), and (3) offenses related to a lifestyle that predisposes the drug abuser to engage in illegal activity, for example, through association with other offenders or with illicit markets. Individuals who use illicit drugs are more likely to commit crimes, and it is common for many offenses, including violent crimes, to be committed by individuals who had used drugs...
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...Substance Abuse Prevention in the United States G. Lester Introduction to Addictions and Substance Use Disorders 3/2/2014 There are many substance abuse programs for many different circumstances all across America. Each program caters to individuals who are suffering within the scope of their program. The goals for each program is the same, to help prevent addiction. There are three program that will be discussed in this paper. The D.A.R.E. Program, the Safe Haven, and the Late Night Program. The D.A.R.E. Program The Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program, which is commonly called D.A.R.E., targets younger generations. It is one of the largest prevention programs directed at school aged children from kindergarten through high school. (West & O'Neal, 2004). Established in 1983, the goals of the D.A.R.E. program is to educate America’s youth in the prevention and dangers of using drugs and alcohol. D.A.R.E. focuses is not only telling children that they should resist the temptation of using drugs but teaches the how to resist the temptations. (Department of Safety & Homeland Security, n.d.). D.A.R.E. has proven to be so successful that it has been implemented into 75% of America’s schools. The officer led classes educate children to “resist peer pressure and live drug and violence free lives” (Department of Safety & Homeland Security, n.d.). Every officer must go through 80 hours in depth training that includes child development, classroom and teaching techniques...
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...research, and conclusions on the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment programs are numerous. However, there does not appear to be a single answer or even a manageable set of solutions for how to effectively and efficiently treat those suffering the ill effects of substance abuse. This paper aims to make the case that the most effective way to deal with this problem is to attack it at the source, by trying to eliminate, or at the very least disrupt, the supply of illicit drugs available for purchase and consumption. The attempt to make this case is done by pointing out the mixed results of previous substance abuse treatment programs and by using systems theory to explain why the complexity of treatment options makes it difficult to accurately evaluate such programs. The Economic Impact on Substance Abuse The effect of substance abuse on the United States economy is astronomical. Consider that in 2004, almost a tenth of the nation’s population ages 12 and older were classified with substance abuse or dependence disorders (Morgan & Crane, 2010). The issue is so complex, in fact, it is nearly impossible to put an accurate price tag on the impact. If one focuses solely on the economic impact of this epidemic, one would have to calculate numerous costs. People who abuse and are addicted to illicit drugs spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to feed their habit, which is money that could be spent in more productive ways. Substance abusers often steal to fund their habit, which...
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...Eating, Substance Abuse, Sex/Gender/Sexual, Impulse-Control, and Personality Disorder Normal behavior is accepted world-wide, but when people show abnormal behavior, it is accepted by the few that may understand why this is their behavior. Abnormal behavior that disrupts an individual’s life on a daily basis can be caused by several disorders. These disorders can very complex at times and some are more devastating to the mind and body than others. In this paper, the biological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components of eating, substance abuse, sex/gender/sexual, impulse-control, and personality disorders will be analyzed. Biological Eating Disorder Genetics and abnormalities in hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain structures are focused on to explain how eating disorders are developed. Studies have shown that identical twins are more likely to have anorexia and bulimia than fraternal twins. However, other studies show that eating disorder symptoms can be greatly influenced by nongenetic factors, such as obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder and depression. Eating disorders are seen as an extension of obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder by some clinicians because people may develop the compulsive need for dieting, exercising, or purging as a result of obsessional thoughts about being overweight (Hansell & Damour, 2008). As for hormonal abnormalities, two hormones (leptin and ghrelin) have been the main focus in recent research. Leptin is a hormone...
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