Essays Tagged: "Drug Abuse Warning Network"
An essay reports Teenage Drug Addictions and the author`s opinion.
Teenage Drug AddictionsTeenaged addicts live in a world much different from the world of the other teenagers ... nagers. It is not a small world. There are millions of teen addiction cases in the world because of drugs, which include heroine and cocaine and also, alcohol. Their lives are filled with violence and ... e hidden from those people around them. According to the research of The Health and Human Services, drug use by adults rose from a low of 5.3% in 1992 to 10.9% in 1995 (Anonymous, 1996), and one study ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Analyzing The Case Study of a college Student Having a Very Bad Trip by:Nicole Page
ried about Kris's visit to the hospital, in fact, they were in denial of the situation, even when a drug screening for cocaine came back positive. This paper argues whether Kris's behavior is abnormal ... h as stealing, in order to obtain more of the substance. Crack-cocaine user is in withdrawal of the drug, they are liable to do anything to obtain more crack. Kris, at the time of his hospitalization, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Teens and Marijuana
Marijuana abuse among teenagers today leads to more serious drug use and directly contributes to the decreasing graduation rates in our country. Marijuana is a ... ames for marijuana including pot, herb, weed, mary jane, ganja, and chronic. The herbal form of the drug consists of dried mature flowers and subtending leaves of pistillate (female) plants. The resin ... Cigars that are emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana, sometimes in combination with other drugs are called blunts. Marijuana can also be eaten in food, for example, by baking it in brownies ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Past and Current Trends of Drug Use in the United States
Drug use in the United States has always been an issue, more so now than ever before. The abuse of p ... escription drugs by users of every age group is increasing at an alarming rate. The implications of drug use are a public health problem that affects society on many levels. Alcohol, once an illegal s ... ts society on many levels. Alcohol, once an illegal substance, is now an accepted, if not expected, drug in the American culture. This paper will discuss the past and current trends of drug use and ho ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
L and D methamphetamine
us KahyaziL and D MethamphetamineGrade 12 Chemistry SCH4U1For Mrs. SgouromitisMany over the counter drugs contain stereoisomers called optical isomers. There are two types of isomer; structural isomer ... mula of C10H15N that affects the central nervous system. Methamphetamine is a colorless form of the drug D-methamphetamine. The clear odorless substance is abused because of its long-lasting excited e ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology