Drug addiction has been an ongoing crisis across the country for several years, but especially in New Hampshire, where drug abuse statistics have been on the rise since 2010. Drug abuse is prevalent across all socioeconomic groups, but many New Hampshire residents are unable to afford treatment. In order to address the issues New Hampshire’s residents are facing, New Hampshire must change aspects of its health care system, such as supplying more treatment centers that accept Medicaid, utilizing and encouraging...
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What is a drug? The drug is a substance that can alter the body’s function either physically or psychologically when taken drug into the body. There are many factor that contributes to drug addiction. One of the factor is peer pressure. Many people relate to peer pressure strictly with kids and teenagers, it does manifest itself in adults as well. For example, a person who has friends or loved ones who are addicted to or use drugs which will affect...
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The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) is the oldest and biggest organization of the Sri Lankan military and established in 1949 as the Ceylon Army, modified its name when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. The Sri Lankan Armed Forces are the unified forces of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, including Sri Lankan Army, Sri Lankan Navy and Sri Lankan Air Force; they are managed by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). These three services have approximately 276,700 incumbents...
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Introduction This report is based on the prevailing issue of drug abuse among Sri Lankan teenagers and the spread through social media. This analyses the continuous increasing trend of drug spread and how social media influences to boost up the spread. This issue is being discussed since it has become a burning problem in Sri Lanka and the dark shadow of this is now being falling on the younger generation of the country. The purpose of this report is to...
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Combating Gangs Today, fighting back against juvenile gangs proves to be a strenuous task in which it takes willful individuals to stand up to. The G.R.E.A.T program or Gang Resistance Education and Training Program, established in 1991 appears to be one the most effective ways to deter delinquents against gangs (Lab & Whitehead, 133). In researching, a lot of charismatic officers welcome the program with open arms and also actively participate in them. With youth observing and participating in these...
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Humans have a deep history with drug abuse because of using drugs for thousands of years. The earliest documented usage of narcotics dates back to 4,000 B.C, with medicinal marijuana being present in China around 2,737 B.C., as the modern era flows the cases of drug abuse got worst, one example is as of the year 2014, the users of heroin in the United States has an estimated of 180,000 upwards. Some people perceive victims of drug addiction as people...
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Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized in 1938 by Albert Hofmann (Passie, Halpern, Stichtenoth, Emrich, & Hintzen, 2008). It is a prototypical hallucinogen and has one of the most potent hallucinogenic effects (Wacker et al., 2017). LSD is derived from lysergic acid and there are four optically-active isomers known (Passie et al., 2008). Out of four isomers, d- and l-LSD and d-l and l-isolysergic acid diethylamide, only d-LSD isomer has psychoactive properties (Passie et al., 2008). There are...
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At first, you feel nothing. As the tablet dissolves, reality does as well. You look around the room. The room is spinning almost pulsating. It’s as if the world is breathing. It all started by taking a small tablet. This tablet is a form of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). LSD is a widely used drug that has affected various people in America. Thus, to understand the gravity of the effect of this drug, one must address the pharmacology, biological impact,...
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Emotional strain over long periods of time can inevitably lead to the final failing of relationships. Substance abuse can change the individual’s behavior, they become more isolated; closing their family and friends off. They tend to avoid family or friends who have confronted them about their addiction, and some steal from their loved ones to finance their addiction which adds more strain on the already broken relationship. One example of fractured relationships because of addiction would be Sonny and his...
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LSD, also known as Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 is a potent drug that is in fact, the most powerful out of all of the hallucinogens psychedelic drugs, this is due to the fact that is is approximately 100 times stronger than psilocybin and 4000 times stronger than mescaline. This drug changes a person’s mental state by changing, altering, and distorting the perception of reality to the point where at high doses hallucination occurs. LSD is synthetically made from lysergic acid, which...
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Adolescents, generally considered ages 11-21, all over America are exposed to drugs. It is not just a problem in the inner cities or urban areas. Adolescents in the US use illicit drugs (but not alcohol) more than adolescents in Europe. Teens do drugs for reasons including; to relieve boredom, satisfy their curiosity, self medicate depression and anxiety, to feel adult, for social acceptance, to improve their mood, to increase performance, succumbing to peer pressure. However, many adolescents reject alcohol and...
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Introduction Drug addiction is increasingly becoming a universal issue, both expense wise, but also the impact it has socially. With an estimated cost to the healthcare of $1 trillion, it is clear why there is a high demand for further knowledge and treatments (NIoDA, 2017). Not only does the cost of addiction put a strain on a country’s economy, but it also has a disruptive effect on an addict’s personal life, the impact of drugs is not just to the...
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Police departments utilized several tactics when it comes to substance use and abuse, possession, distribution, sale, and trafficking. Supply reduction, which includes “buy-and-bust, trading up, undercover work, and crackdown.” Also Demand reduction, which includes “drug education programs such as DARE” (Walker & Katz, 2018 p303). These programs and tactics where created during the late 1980’s “when drugs represented serious problems for the police, criminal justice system, and society.” (Walker & Katz, 2018 p304). Even though the programs such as the...
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The Child Called “It” is written by David Peltzer and tells the story of his childhood and the abuse that he had to endure from his mother, terrible things from beatings to locking him in a room while it slowly filled with toxic gas. Peltzer talks about how he grew up feeling spite and anger towards people since they got to be fed and experienced happiness while he was treated as a slave and was lucky to find any food...
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’Immortality is eternal life, being exempt from death, unending existence. ’ Wikipedia, 2003. Human immortality is humans being able to live indefinitely and overcome death. In the 1800s, the average life expectancy was only 25 years. This has increased dramatically as we are now able to live longer, with an average life expectancy of 82 years. This is because of the continuous scientific research, medical solutions and progressions in technology. There have been many scientific experiments carried out around the...
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Medically supervised injection clinics are a topical, yet controversial approach to the issue of drug addiction in Australia. Substance abuse negatively impacts many Australians and it is essential that these implications are minimised. Injection facilities have proven to be effective in decreasing mortality, successfully encouraging drug addicts to seek further health treatment and promoting sanitary practices that reduce issues such as disease transmission. It can be argued that opening injection clinics will increase criminal activity in the area in which...
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Nowadays, as substances are widely used across the nation, substance use disorder becomes a more prevalent disorder in the US. Drug addiction can be defined as compulsive drug use and a loss of control over drug-taking (Zangen, 2010). It is a severe psychological and pathological disorder, which risks body homeostasis and causes cognitive impairments. To understand how addiction develops, scientists did numerous experiments on lab animals, and eventually found out that dopamine and instrumental learning play predominant roles in motivating...
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Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) also colloquially known as “acid” is a psychedelic drug often criticised as being dangerous and delusion inducing but is also heralded by many scientists and psychologists as mind expanding, wonder drug. LSD is a derivative of ergot; ergot is a fungus which frequently grows on both rye and wheat. For centuries ergot was utilised as a medicine, such as in childbirth in small dosages. It was used to aid childbirth via both quickening delivery and...
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I am here today to express my newfound knowledge of drug addiction, and how my knowledge has led me to believe how decriminalizing drug addiction is the only way to help addicts. Let’s start with what you think you know about drug addiction and what I thought I knew about drug addiction too. Let’s say the back row took heroin everyday for a week. What would happen? Well from what we have all been told, because of the chemical hooks...
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The theory of addiction as a disease is taking a solid establishment in the medical field (Szott, 2015). The perception of drug addiction as a disease has been created during the late 1930s (Walters, 1992). Addiction has always been divided into two categories. On one side is the medical model which perceives addiction as a disease categorised by degenerating and obsessive drug use which the individual has no power on and a moral model where addiction is understood to be...
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Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as LSD, or “acid,” is considered the best-known and most researched psychedelic or hallucinogenic drug. [footnoteRef:1] It is made from a lysergic acid compound found in ergot, a fungus that grows on grains. [1: Passie,Torsten , John H. Halpern, Dirk O.Stichtenoth, Hinderk M. Emrich, and Annelie Hintzen. 'The Pharmacology of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: A Review.' CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 14, no. 4 (2008): 295-314. doi:10.1111/j.1755-5949.2008.00059.x.] Today’s recreational users of LSD often include people in...
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Illicit drug use is disapproved in most societies. It is highly stigmatized and for this reason, those people who have been lost in the world of drugs find this behavior harmful. While there is a wide research on drugs and alcohol abuse, few studies have addressed the problem of stigmatization among drug addicts. Specific social beliefs and opinions drive social stigma and stigma occurs when an individual is termed as an antisocial due to some perceived behavioral flaws. According to...
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Drug use is one of the most important problems in modern society. According to Breakdown Britain 2006, 'Britain is experiencing an explosion in addiction' (Duncan Smith 2006: 40). Based on statistics, one and three quarters million young people in Britain use cocaine. Over the past seven years, their number has increased twice. Over the past 5 years, the cost of heroin has dropped by 45%, the cost of cocaine has fallen by 22%. Thus, Cocaine and heroin are cheaper than...
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Introduction Drug addiction can be defined as a loss of executive control over maladaptive incentive habits (Belin, Belin-Rauscent, Murray, & Everitt, 2013). In 2018, there were 2,917 registered deaths in England and Wales related to poisoning by drug misuse, which was a 17% increase from 2017 and a 46% increase from 2008 (Statistics on Drug Misuse, England, 2019). According to this study, the number of deaths related to drug misuse are at their highest since 1993. Furthermore, the National Treatment...
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If there was a way you could prevent some illness, diseases and even death, wouldn’t you do it? Smoke is a proven killer, whether inhaled directly or second hand, and attempts should be made to reduce it in public places. Many would argue limiting places in which people can smoke is a violation of their rights to enjoy a legal habit. Arguing for the non-smokers, why should those who choose not to smoke have to inhale the secondhand toxins of...
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Many medical substances have been developed over the past years and many have been out there such as pills, rubs, lotions, powders, and creams that have been reported to reduce weight. But only a few have been proved to be of a good result. But most of it seems to work well only with fitness exercises and a good diet combination. This will work and produce long-lasting outcomes. Though many kept cautioning that they don’t trust those drugs, it might...
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Alcohol is an important part of Bhutanese culture, especially in the eastern parts of Bhutan, they serve it as a gesture of showing respect, honor and hospitality. Alcohol is served in a number of forms including welcome drink, farewell drink, drink with food and other ceremonial forms. The basic nature of alcohol is underplayed to promote it as a socially acceptable commodity in Bhutan. Due to which it becomes one of the reason for being widely available in country, an...
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Substance abuse is one of the factors related to female offender’s pathway into the criminal justice system (CJS), it has been correlated with the after-math of childhood abuse and the repeated involvement in crime (Bloom et al, 2003). Vast numbers of women in prison have been arrested for drug offences or have reported to have a drug abuse problem (Henderson, 1998). In the UK the average percentage of women who are in custody that have been reported to have a...
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Abstract The terminology and typologies used to describe alcoholics and diagnose alcoholism have changed dramatically from when William Carpenter first published “On the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease” in 1850 to the publication of the DSM V in 2013. E.M. Jellinek had a profound impact on emphasizing the importance of treating alcoholism as a disease that should be studied scientifically, thus paving the way for the changes of these typologies and how people are diagnosed....
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Health has already become a vital part of most people’s life. We cannot achieve anything without a healthy body. When I was a kid, I always saw my dad and uncles smoking with each other. I thought it was very cool to mimic their behavior. One day, I asked my dad “Dad, could you give me one cigarette? I think it is so cool.” My dad laughed at me and said: “You are too young to smoke cigarettes.” But I...
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