Irresponsible drinking can destroy a person's life as well as the lives of those around them. ... Many times alcoholism starts during a person's high school and college years; however some teenagers and young adults frequently abuse alcohol and never think about the physical, mental, and emotional toll that alcohol can have on a person's life. ... The chances of a person becoming an alcoholic are much higher for a person who drinks excessively and lower for a person who drinks moderately. ... Additionally, a child who has an alcoholic parent is much more likely to become an alco...

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If a person uses marijuana in a proper way, it may decrease his anxiety and improve mood. ... First, a person may lose his short-term memory and forget what happened the last night after getting high. ... Long-term use of marijuana may destroy not only the body and mind, but also the whole life career. ... Meanwhile, addiction will also impair a person's cognition. ... In the end, addictive people have lower life satisfaction and accomplishment, along with a higher risk of chronic disease. ...

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Life is an entangled web of decisions, both good and bad. ... Even though assumptions and inferences can be biased and questionable, they are essential to communication and the decision making process to which one's life depends. ... If one were to witness a person in this high crime area sleeping in broad daylight in a public location, one might infer that the person were on drugs, that they were passed out from drug use, or that they were a drug addict. The assumption is based on knowing that the area is notorious for crime and drug use which causes a person to make the inference that ...

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Chino grows up to be a great leader after he gains confidence through his toughness, but his toughness is something that others are afraid of, and they are intimidated by a person's toughness to the extent that they can't make their town a place where every person has a great attitude and sincerity. ... With the help of Sapo, "the meanest and ugliest kid on the block," Chino manages to make it as far as college before his life is endangered. ... With all of these components, Chino was influenced and supported greatly, but there were some times when he needed to listen to himself, and...

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Alcohol compared to Marijuana Marijuana does not affect a person's body nearly as much as alcohol and is not as harmful to people as alcohol. ... Most people who smoke it say that it makes them more creative and some say it opens there mind up and they are smarter, and at the same time the person is still in reality where the high from other drugs can take a person right out of reality. Alcohol when it is taken gets into the bloodstream and usually only takes a few drinks to give a person a "buzz". ... Compared to a stoned person a drunk person can"t drive, there speech is slurred, ...

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When a person uses a psychoactive drug and the affects that drug has also depends on the person's expectations, the social setting, and cultural beliefs and value. ... The psychological, social, and cultural factors shows whether a person uses a psychoactive drug and what affects that drug has also depend on the person's expectations, the social setting, and cultural beliefs and values. ... This can cause the person to become vulnerable as they begin to expose their inner-most feelings. We want the person to feel as they are getting reassurance and affection, but their analyst remain...

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Methadone 1 The use of methadone does not provide a solution for junkies to escape the chaotic life of addiction. Instead, it only feeds the addiction of the person that is being treated. ... In a junkies life their dependency is associated with tolerance, withdrawal, persistent desire and failed efforts to reduce or control the use of a substance. ... Methadone alone does not give the addict any direction or guidance on how to become a socially responsible person. ... Making the majority of methadone clinic treated patients still very dependant on the people directly involved in the add...

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To change ones behavior the entire person must first be transformed, and at some level spirituality is needed for this transformation to take place. ... Spirituality can simply be looking deep into one's self and finding meaning in ones life. ... Spirituality allows the individual to view life in a different manor and live a healthier more enjoyable life. ... AA is not simply an addiction recovery program, it teaches a new way of life for recovering alcoholics. ... Spirituality treats the whole person and allows a lifestyle change to occur, which is necessary to insure the indiv...

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The pleasure of a kiss, a bowl of your favourite ice cream, and a compliment may all be related to a rise in dopamine levels in the normal person's brain. ... When a person takes a hit of crack cocaine -- or a drag on a cigarette -- the drugs cause a spike in dopamine levels in the brain, and a rush of euphoria, or pleasure. ... Elevated dopamine levels make a person feel invincible. ... Some reason could be such things as; family stress, school, experimentation, social life and depression. ... As long as old people in authority keep stopping young adolescent from enjoying life, young...

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Yes, it has happened in some cases, but that is the variety of life and will continue to happen whether or not weed is legalized. ... The amount needed to kill a person compared to the amount needed to get a person high is roughly ten thousand times as much, maybe more. ... Furthermore, smoking marijuana puts a person at risk for lung cancer because of the large amounts of carbon monoxide that are inhaled. ... When patients regain lost weight, life can be prolonged. ...

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This is demanding: it suggests that I be secure with my own feelings about myself and any past difficulties, as well as being a positive motivational force and an encourager for the change in a person. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (117) offers a rationale and mechanism of action for this process, "it is vital that the counselor be fully in touch with one's own self so that residual issues from past addictions or other negative life events do not color encounters with the client. ... " Observation avoids critical commentary about a person and instead focuses on what the a...

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Obsession is a disorder and no matter how minuscule it may seem, it will impact you for the rest of your life. It is physically, emotionally, and socially exhausting to try to break an obsession that a person may have. ... The media presents beauty as something that is obtainable; yet in reality, it's what a person is. Each person whether subconsciously or not, strives to amount to the level of beauty that is defined by media. ... It is statically proven that celebrity obsession alters the behavior of a person and also the moral decisions a person may make (Shaw et al. 577). ...

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But opium, like any drug, can allow a person to become addicted. ... This excerpt demonstrates that the more a person smokes the more addicted he is going to get. ... The text "Opium and the Exotic East," is another passage that displays the harmful affects that opium can have on a person's life. ... But at the end of the day, the addiction to the drug is on the shoulders of the person who purchased the dangerous substance. ...

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During a period of five years, 150 individuals who had either taken ecstasy at least once in their life or consecutively, were studied while in an addiction treatment facility. ... During the interview a range of questions were asked to do with their life as well as with the history of their drug use, for example marital status, schooling level, occupation status, their age of first consumption, is there a usual place that they take this drug and how much they take. ... Lastly it was also seen that patients that mixed ecstasy with alcohol use were more likely to have one or more psychological...

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But one research believes that the abuse of substances is more prevalent that the person to become depressed the older they become. ... The twin that was not sexually abused was left to live a "normal" life without all of these problems. ... "(Chapman et al, 2004; Lu, Mueser, Rosenberg, & Jankowski, 2008) When a person doesn't know how to deal with what has happened to them they become dependent on things that they tell themselves fixes the problem. ... Also they might not have a person to talk to about what happened to them because the only person that's close to them...

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Winn describes an addiction, in essence, as the "pursuit of pleasure, a search for a "high" that normal life does not supply. ... Winn states that an addiction consumes the life of the addict. ... Similarly an alcoholic's life is narrowed and dehumanized by his dependence on alcohol." ... Any problems or obstacles that the person is experiencing can easily be blocked out and diverted by the joys of television, and just like drugs and alcohol, the addict overestimates, falsely believing that he can, at any moment, drop any habit that has been accumulated over the course of his ongoing add...

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Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure can affect a child for the rest of his or her life. ... After the withdrawal ends, a child may be affected for the rest of his or her life. An afflicted person's home, school, and work life are likely to suffer from the psychological disorders caused by the use of drugs or alcohol before he or she was even born. ... It is not fair, nor is it ethical to knowingly expose an unborn child to a harmful substance that will likely effect that child for his or her entire life. ... I must admit that legally restricting an of age pregnant woman an indigence that ...

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Opiates kill off the opioid receptors which stimulate the brain and are responsible for lifting a person's mood, helping that person feel motivated for everyday purposes, and natural pain relief. ... The pain tolerance that a normal person has is no longer present in the opiate addict. ... They are called opioid receptors which stimulate the brain and are responsible for lifting a person's mood, helping that person feel motivated for everyday purposes, and natural pain relief. ... The pain tolerance that a normal person has is no longer present in the opiate addict. ... Patients with...

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The family members of a person who is suffering from alcoholism are always negatively impacted by the addict's behavior. ... It is not a lifestyle choice; it's a disease and impairment of the body's health that prevents a person from functioning normally. ... Having an alcoholic parent is probable to be a source of constant stress in a child's life. ... A person that lives in a house with an alcoholic has an approximately twenty-five percent of marrying another alcoholic. ... While alcoholism is a medical disease, social stresses play an essential role in a person beco...

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Although marijuana can cause life altering problems just the same as alcohol, decriminalization would have a more positive and lasting effect on society than prohibition. ... The effects of marijuana usage compared to the use of alcohol or nicotine are about the same and if not less life-threatening. ... Selling the product over the counter also allows the person to know what kind of marijuana they are buying by looking at labels, eliminating possibilities of buying "laced weed." ...

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A 2010 survey shows that by the time kids are in eighth grade about thirty-six percent of them have used alcohol at least once in their life. ... Three primary ways that a person can administer a drug into the body are through Intravenous (IV) injection, inhalation, and by eating or drinking. ... So while using marijuana, or any type of drug that impairs judgment, can cause a person to do things that they would not otherwise do if they were sober or was in a better frame of mind. ... Eventually the body will become immune to the pain-killer that is being used, therefore causing the person to u...

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Thus, regarding that the family is the unit in which children grew and learn everything; parents are the principal responsible or guilty if a young person is addicted to drugs, even if they are older than 18 years old. ... When they are not aware that any small contact with drugs destroy the lives of their children, adolescents start to lose their path; introducing themselves into a horrible world and becoming their young lives in nightmares of the real life. ... As shown by the Phoenix House – a network that serves to those persons whose lives are threatened or burdened by addictions ...

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Frequently, a grim life event compels the addict to confront their addiction. ... It is not unusual for an addict, especially an alcoholic to deny that his drinking is affecting his life or the life of his family. ... Usually these children are unaware of any other way of life. 4. ... It offers hope to people who due to life circumstances are addicted to opiates and are ill. ... This program provides its clients a new life free of the chaotic lifestyle of injecting opiates several times a day in order to avoid withdrawal. ...

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If marijuana were legalized it would no longer be a suspicious secret, but perhaps accepted into society as something to enhance life. ... Why can't we recognize the innocuous yet beneficial aspects of marijuana as a mood elevator and try to enhance life for the population? ... The person who will sell you marijuana in a dark alleyway usually is the same person that could introduce you to harder and more dangerous drugs such as cocaine, extacy or heroin. ...

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Lamar Grey was arrested, tried, convicted, fined $25,000 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. ... (Westermeyer, " Illegal Drug Use" 64) The fourth amendment states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches, and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." ... Profile characteristics includes a person: walking quickly, walking slowly, using...

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