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  • Individuals Addicted To Drugs
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    Drugs Abuse occurs when a drug is taken for unintended purposes and can lead to addiction. Addiction occurs when a person must use the drug to feel and function normally. Addiction occurs in two types, physical and psychological. Physical addiction is caused the brain, the brain produces fewer chemicals or neurotransmitters to make up for the extra chemicals therefore the brain needs the chemicals from the drug to reach the correct balance and individual becomes out of touch with reality. Psycho...
  • Drug Abuse And Addiction
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    In order to fully understand this question it is important to define exactly what is meant by the key terms used; the Oxford English Popular English Dictionary (P arragon, Oxford 1995) defines 'abuse as; 'To make bad or wrong use of; to maltreat, and it defines 'addiction as the condition of doing or using something as a habit or compulsively (esp. of drug taking, with adverse effects on ceasing) devotion to an interest. During this essay I hope to show how drugs alter the way the brain works, a...
  • Legal Would Drug Use
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    Do drugs really cause crime, or is it our governments way of controlling the communities Many people blame drugs for every problem in our society, but is it the true evil in our society No one person can answer that question. There are only opinions and supposed theories on this issue. We have been taught over the years that drugs were bad and that they only affected the poor and less fortunate, and turned them into crazy criminals, but this isn t true to any extent. The laws controlling and pro...
  • Television Addiction By Marie Winn
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    According to Rita Dove, the author of "Loose Ends", and "Television Addiction", by Marie Winn. Both authors often share the same the views about television. But television addiction is more expressed in Ms. Winn's essay. However, Ms. Dove speaks of a more personal experience with her daughter, and how the television is an issue in her household. Although, Ms. Dove says in her essay, "For years the following scene would play daily at our house: Home from school, my daughter would have her backpac...
  • People Dont Progress In Drug Use
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    The Pleasure Principle The Oxford Dictionary defines pleasure. It is a feeling of satisfaction or joy. It is enjoyment. It is a source of pleasure or gratification. It is formally a persons will or desire. Finally they define it as sensual gratification. Now if we put these all together in one sentence, pleasure is something that brings an overall feeling of satisfaction and gratification while fulfilling desires. If that doesnt sound good, what does We have already determined that people natura...
  • Alcohol Addiction
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    Everyone makes mistakes in their life. Some people more than others, depending on who you are. I like to think one of the reasons why people stick together is to help each other out when they are in trouble. It is truly sad to see that this writer is too selfish to help those in need. One of the things that I noticed most about this article, is that the writer mentioned that he / she was sick of these heroic stories of people getting out of drugs, and that it was their fault for getting into it ...
  • Revolution In Society's Attitude Toward Drug Addiction
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    The Heroin War: Why We Must Change our Battle Plan If a single reason can be given to illustrate the urgent need for reform of the current Australian drug policy it is this; that the prohibition strategy is simply not working. The toll from heroin deaths in Victoria has risen 73 percent over the last ten years, addiction and overdose rates are soaring and the price of heroin is declining. The Federal Government is applauding the 'zero-tolerance' regime. The Prime Minister displays the seizure of...
  • Exchange Of Morphine Addiction
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    MORPHINE Morphine is a narcotic analgesic drug, which means that it is a downer painkiller. It is most commonly given intravenously (by injection) for more rapid results, but it can also effectively be given orally. It has a remarkable ability to reduce physical distress, and its calming effect protects against exhaustion in traumatic shock, internal hemorrhage, and several other conditions. This drug is truly a miracle worker. Morphine is an opiate, coming from the poppy seed. It was first isol...
  • Young Man Use Drugs
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    : "Teenagers problems" 2007 Contents Introduction Children and toxicomania Drugs AIDS Emotional problems Conclusion Literature Introduction He is lifeless who is faultless. The more man knows the greater power he has. The modern world is full of problems - war, hunger, poverty, disease, unemployment... It's a long list. Do teenagers and young people have the some problems of the whole world or are they involved in something else The world is facing a drugs crisis. There are more young addicts to...
  • Alice's Life
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    Go Ask Alice, written by an anonymous author, is a diary kept by a fifteen-year-old drug user. The author, through this book, doesn't wants his readers to look for advise in it, but to learn about the real world in which some teenagers have to live through. Alice, the main character, made the worst mistake ever and radically changed her life around to fit in with the crowd. She is soon exposed to drugs, sex and violence. It is a battle that Alice can win, but sometimes as much as you want someth...
  • People's Addiction To Tv
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    If one was to look at society today, they would find many addictions that haunt people's every day life. Most often society thinks as an addiction being only to some sort of drug or alcohol. They think that people can only be addicted to drugs, like heroin, cocaine, PCP, or LSD. We always look at addictions as being bad. By looking at the bad side to everything we tend to ignore the good that comes from some of our small addictions, some we probably did not even know we had. Addiction is the ina...
  • Lifestyle Of Drug Addiction
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    1) Looking at the main character, Mark Renton, describe how his life follows the primrose path. Drugs are so dangerous, they not only destroy the lives of the addicts but also the lives of the addicts families and loved ones. It affects more than the one person doing the drugs. 2) If Mark Renton's friends had not re-entered his life while he was starting over in London, would his life have been any different? I personal think his life would have been different. He was trying to start a new life ...
  • Use And Addiction Of Crack Cocaine
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    Where I come from a low SES community, phrases like "your mom is a crack head", or "shut up crack baby" are said jokingly to make fun of someone during what we call a "rip session". Although said as a joke, some are very offended by the comments. Why? Because for some, crack addiction hits too close to home for comfort. Seeing as how it is easily obtainable in low SES areas, many find themselves falling victim to the powerful substance, crack cocaine. Low SES is just one of the many factors that...
  • Number Of Drug Addicted Babies
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    CRACK CRACK, Children Requiring a Caring K ommunity, is a program that was established to sterilize drug addicts. Barbara Harris started this program because she was frustrated by the politicians unwillingness to do anything about the rising number of babies being born addicted to drugs, in particular crack cocaine. Crack babies do not have a good chance for a long, happy life. Many babies are either stillborn or die within the first few years of life. The babies that survive often suffer from l...
  • Addiction To Alcohol And Other Drugs
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    "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging" (Proverbs 20: 1). At the last it bit eth like a serpent and sting eth like and adder" (Proverbs 23: 32). These biblical verses depict the continuing use of drugs and addictions with which mankind has struggled with over the ages. All of us have addictions, whether they be drinking alcohol, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, gambling, or overspending each time we shop. Yet, God warns us to stay away from addiction for our own good as it only produces "so...
  • Addictive Drug
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    History of Heroin Heroin is named after the German word for hero, heroisch. Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as "black tar heroin". Although purer heroin is becoming more common, ...
  • Prescription Drug Addiction
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    Prescription drugs are just as addictive as illegal drugs and are easier to acquire. The only difference is that if you have health insurance, you are only paying a co-payment for your medication and not the street price for it. The more you use a prescription drug the more of a tolerance your body builds up to it, thus leading to an increase in dosage and a possible addiction. There are many prescription drugs available today and some classes of drugs are more abused than others such as opioids...
  • Teen Drug Addiction
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    The use of drugs by teenagers has led to a rapidly growing number of teenagers who are seriously addicted to anything from alcohol to heroin. As a consequence of their constant interaction with drugs, these teens eventually get caught using. When this happens, they are put into the juvenile penitentiary system. With each offense, more and more time is spent in county facilitated juvenile detention centers, otherwise known as correctional facilities or juvenile halls. The current approach to solv...
  • Drug Addiction Among Teenagers
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    In today's society, the common problem among teenagers is the use of drugs. Teen age years is probably one of the most challenging periods of life. It is a stage of identity versus confusion - knowing oneself compared to losing oneself. Belonging and being accepted in a group is very important and being cool as well. During these years of growing up, teenagers encounter their share of positive and negative experiences. Peer pressure, curiosity, and the availability of drugs are factors that some...
  • Use Of The Drug
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    Drug dependence is psychological and sometimes physical need to use a drug in order to experience psychological or physical effects. Psychological addiction is more difficult to treat than the physical one and often continues after the physical addiction has been dealt with. Each day there are a lot of new drug addicts, but also there are a lot of those who die because of using this evil, white pleasure. Drug addiction has several forms in expressing the dependency. Also there are a lot of diffe...

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