Most Commonly abused drugs and their effects. 1. Alcohol- With over half (52.5%) of U.S. population identified as drinkers, alcohol is the #1 abused substance in America. An estimated 135.5 million people drink alcohol, but of those people, 86 million are considered to be abusers, which include heavy drinking, binge drinking and underage drinking. Twenty-three percent of the population participates in binge drinking (59.7 million) and 6.5% of the population reported heavy drinking (17.0 million)
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all started beginning our day to day lives. Me and my younger brother attended school and parents went to work. First a few weeks, I was like a breathing statue who could not go to places on my own and would feel different talking to people. I did not feel that confident talking in English and interacting with people. I also got quite depressed with having no friends here. This seemed like a small issue to my parents and when I shared about it they always told me it will get better. But I started
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for doing something you love doing, and are good at doing. I want to encourage you to find your Niche and lets become successful. Success inspite of Recession Capitalize even in the middle of a Recession The definition of the word "Crisis" is Excessive Trouble, a Problem too Big for you to
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Bello Louissaint ENC 1101-20013 Professor Kristen Holt February 26, 2014 The Battle of Two Civil Legends When you hear the names Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., You think of the men of colored that paved the way for their respective races and nation. Gandhi with his homeland of India from British rule and MLK with the nation of America. Many figures have compared to two but no one has ever attempted to pit these two legends against each other and not in the form of a rap battle
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Hemophilia is a rare disease that affects about 400,000 people worldwide, and occurs mostly in men. In this report I will be talking about symptoms, how you develop it, treatment, testing, living with the disease and more. Hemophilia is a rare and painful blood disorder where your blood is not able to clot normally. There are two main types of hemophilia. Hemophilia A is a mutation in the gene VIII and type B is a mutation in the gene IX. Type A is four times more common than type B. if a person
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The pain can be intense and short pain, or a larger and vaguer. Causes: The cause is a muscle spasm near the location of the anus. This muscle spasm may be due to abnormal muscle hypertrophy, muscle fibrosis, irregular nerve whole or in part, excessive exercise, lack of physical activity after surgery. Symptoms: Because usually the symptoms of pain in the rectal area, which usually lasts less than 20 minutes. The pain may be short and intense or be a big pain in the rectum vague. Can a person
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Obama’s speech The Audacity of Hope at the 2004 Democratic National Keynote Address, the gap between the pre-existing ethos of the two candidates is bridged and the audience is swayed in Kerry’s direction. Obama uses personal anecdotes to build excessive pathos which reduces the amount of logos necessary to convince the audience to vote for Kerry because the
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Forms of Discipline: What is best for the child? Children are like flowers, if well taken care of they will bloom. If ignored or tortured, they will wither and die. Child discipline is one of the most important elements of successful parenting. Today, many people have this notion that physical abuse is in no way a solution to helping children discern between right and wrong. Since generations children have been taught the art of discipline through physical punishment. Often this approach to disciplining
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Remember that although all you can see is a computer screen. There is a person with real feelings and emotions on the other side. It helps to ask yourself this question “Would I say this to someone in person?” before pressing the send button. Avoid excessive use of exclamation points and capital letters. To you these may be ways of showing excitement, while the person reading the post or message takes it as anger. An absence of face-to-face clues can cause written text to be misinterpreted. Try not to
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There has been a moment in every one’s life where short-term feelings of sorrow and sadness may arise out of the blue or on occasion. It is when those emotions and feelings become more prevalent and lengthy in duration that the National Institute of Mental Health (2011) may clinically diagnose a person with depression. A diagnosis of depression can only be made if the feelings of sadness begin to “interfere with daily life and causes pain” for the individual and those who care about him or her. The
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