Case Study: The Town Of Anthony

Hempstead Village is a diverse community that borders the affluent town of Garden City where some rich and famous New Yorkers such as actress Susan Lucci, and author Nelson DeMille have resided. Though the village has a current reputation of being high in crime and gang activity, it was once a noteworthy locality in Long Island’s history. This paper assesses Hempstead as a community to diagnose a health problem and identify its possible causes.

For the self-help meeting in regards for my reaction paper, I attended a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting. NA is a nonprofit, community-based, 12-step recovery organization for recovering drug addicts (Bowens, 2011, p. 1). The meeting I attended took place outside on a Saturday afternoon at Magnolia Park in Garden Grove, California. It is an open-group tag meeting, where one speaker will tag another person to share and welcome for anyone to attend. It was very easy to locate the meeting, as it was right in front of the park’s only parking lot with members sitting in a circle on benches and lawn chairs. The meeting started at 12:00pm and ended around 1:30pm.

The widespread feeling today is that there are more troubled teenagers than it was in the past, the increase of gangs, drugs, and guns will continue to be a social problem. Youth gangs are increasingly becoming a minority problem, and this trend is likely to increase in years to come, the drugs choices of juvenile may change in the future but that don’t mean it will be less of a problem than it is now, their choice of drugs today is cocaine and methamphetamine. Juveniles will continue to drink alcohol, and there is no reason to believe that the use of alcohol will be less of a problem than at present.

The content of this paper is an interview with Laura Crain from the McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition. In the paper I touch on the history of the Coalition and how its evolved throughout the years. The coalition has a lot of involvement with the community in various counties. The work on a larger scheme rather than on a one to one basis. This interview covered the mission and goals set for the Coalition. Laura discussed with me the influences internal as well as external that affect the Coalition. Another thing we discussed was the struggles that come along with running an organization like this. I also touched on my personal experience and my thoughts regarding my internship.

Results of safe injection site studies have shown that an expansion may have a greater impact. This may reduce the chance of dangerous encounters between users of these safe injection sites and the public. Children not even out of elementary school, were getting involved in the drug scene. These runaways were a concern to the residents, who witnessed overdoses in the past decade. Over 2,000 lives were lost due to the Downtowns East side’s “drug-fuelled spiral” (MacQueen et al., 2003). Persisting the safe injection site can help in lowering risk behaviors by the drug users of SIS’s and community concerns that are related to public injection of drugs (McKnight et al,. 2007). Overall, SIS’s may have the ability to change the drug users and transform them into potential productive members of society.

A consistent trend shifting the Town of Anthony Texas, is that of youth joining gangs at a very early age, starting drugs at an early age and having babies at a very early age. The use of alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drugs, by youth in this community is growing exponentially, due mostly to the prevalence of the drug within this community. The gangs are predominately Mexican-American and Mexican national in origin and appeal to Hispanic youth. Gang activity always involves drugs. In addition, the gang violence seen in this community stems from “turf” disputes over which gang has the power to sell drugs in a particular neighborhood. The Community Relation Coalition cannot address substance abuse without addressing gang activity in the

On August 16, 1780, two armies would come to meet in an open field north of Camden. Camden, a small town in South Carolina, was in an enticing position for both American and British forces. The American forces, led by Major General Horatio Gates, sought to capture Camden to prove to American colonialists that the South was not lost to British occupation. The British forces, led by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, aimed to maintain control of Camden due to it being essential for the success of Britain’s “southern strategy”. The two generals knew that Camden was crucial for their strategies and that there was no room for error. Although both generals were formidable it was Cornwallis’ well timed and decisive judgements that proved his superiority

In conclusion, drugs are a major problem in our community and surrounding areas. They can affect your community greatly, in a negative way. Individuals who are infected by this terrible addiction are losing friends, loved ones and ones who want to help them get better. People need to come together to make the community great again, helping those around do good, helping them live a greater

According to the Heroin Epidemic in Northern Ohio, the best way to lessen the chances of heroin and cocaine abuse is prevention (Heroin Epidemic 2015). By incorporating and highlighting the dangers and warning signs within the school systems it could prevent teenagers and young adults from trying it. Many schools have the D.A.R.E programs offered at schools. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) is a program that provides children with the proper skills when it comes to drugs and violence. The law enforcement also works within the community. They interact more just to show others with a different mindset that they are here to protect and serve the community.

Opioid abuse is extremely prevalent in today’s society. Many public health professionals are calling it the worst drug crisis in the nation’s history. (DeGarmo, 2017) Opioid abuse and addiction is an issue that goes beyond adults, it is plaguing juveniles as well. Juveniles are feeling the negative effects of this issue in many different ways. Some are watching their friends or family go through addiction, some have lost loved ones, and some juveniles are addicted themselves. I volunteered at the EB HOPE drop-in center which is located in East Bridgewater. The mission of the drop-in center is to provide resources to those affected by opioid addiction. They have an abundance of resources including retreats, rehabilitation centers, support groups, as well as faith based healings. They also have various support groups for family and friends of those addicted to opioids.

6. How could we help and take active part in community to make a difference?

If one traveled through the small quiet community of Monroe, MI you would probably never think that this town has a drug problem. From the outside it seems like a nice middle class suburb that might be ideal to raise a family. For those that reside here however, they know that there is a growing problem. There aren’t many families that haven’t been affected by heroin addiction in this small town. The drug has literally swept through this county like an angry mob of rioters bringing crime, death, and destruction with it, leaving many people in the community asking, “Why?”

Moral expectations in the Edgewater drug community is based on sharing, fairness, and justice (6). This type of economy is perfect for small communal societies, where their motto is to get mutual aid in order to avoid the free rider problem. Members of the community pool their money together to purchase heroin, and

The city of Plano, Texas, recently earned a spot at the top of Forbes‘s list of “safest places” to live in the United States. Its early efforts at chasing the top prize, however, were part of a cocktail of ignorance and poor judgment that had deadly consequences for Plano’s teenagers. Plano only earned its long-sought distinction after overcoming the fallout from highly publicized episodes of teen drug overdose and suicide in the 1980s and 90s. During the 1990s, scientists at the National Institute of Health detected a nationwide rise in heroin use (Biederman). The spike was seen not only in large, urban environments, where it was perhaps not unprecedented, but also in small towns and more affluent suburbs. Plano, an affluent, newer suburb twenty miles north of Dallas, was not immune. It witnessed heroin’s devastating impact firsthand in Plano’s children, particularly those in high school. Between 1996 and 1998, heroin overdoses were the cause of 18 deaths in Plano’s young residents. But because Plano was one of the richest cities in Texas and was still recovering from the cultural backlash of cluster suicides in the 1980s, its civic and business leaders and to some extent the police tried to obfuscate the city’s heroin problem rather than confront it directly. It paid a high price for these tactics, and it took Plano decades to rebound from the fallout.

Erik and I chose three great ideas. These ideas included building a skatepark, which has been trying to pass for a while now, a nature-walk, and a theater. Most people chose the theater choice. We chose theater because it would make the majority of people pleased. A movie theater is a great way for families to bond and connect and also a good hang-out place for teenagers;It’s fun and it’s affordable. This is quite necessary for the Frederick Trit-town. There is not many things that are local to do in Frederick and not everyone has a car. The location will be in Frederick, which is in the middle of Firestone and Dacono, encouraging kids to exercise to get to the location. The cost of the theater can range up to 2 million dollars with just the